Part of the new evidence brought to light in Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired is the on camera admission by former prosecuting attorney David Wells that he'd spoken with Judge ... Read More

Ken Burns' six-episode series The National Parks: America's Best Idea is currently airing on PBS, and it's a must see. Burns and writer/co-producer Dayton Duncan worked on the series for six ... Read More

Roman Polanski's ongoing legal woes, so well-chronicled in Marina Zenovich’s documentary film, " Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)," are in the headlines again. Polanski was arrested by Swiss authorities ... Read More

Jane, the 1962 documentary made by cinema verité filmmakers Robert Drew, D.A. Pennebaker and Hope Ryden, was screened at NYC's IFC Center on September 22, kicking off Docurama Films' tenth ... Read More

The 2009 Hamptons International Film Festival (Thursday, October 8 to Monday, October 12, in East Hampton, NY) is presenting 107 films including - 15 World Premieres, 10 North American Premieres, ... Read More

Michael Moore’s new documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, may be his last. Or so suggests CNN.com's Matt Carey, who questioned Moore about an interview in which the filmmaker said ... Read More

Ya gotta love Rooftop Films! Not only are they remarkably creative in finding new venues for showcasing independent films, they also fund worthy projects. In fact, Rooftop films takes ... Read More

Isabella Rossellini is back on the

In addition to it's celebratory theatrical screenings,

Since its inception in 2006, Cinereach, a nonprofit created by filmmakers, philanthropists and entrepreneurs to "champion vital stories artfully told," has granted more than $2 million to filmmakers to fund ... Read More

What with WESTDOC's Documentary and Reality Conference, designed to explore connections between documentary filmmaking and reality TV, looming on the horizon (it runs from September 14 to 16), plus the ... Read More

IFP's annual Independent Film Conference, one of the year's major networking events for independent documentary and narrative feature filmmakers, takes place in New York from September19 -23, 2009. The five-day ... Read More

Crude, filmmaker Joe Berlinger's brilliant and heartbreaking revelation of Texaco/Chevron's oil despoil of thousands of square miles of Ecuadorian rain forest and rivers, ends the way most verite documentaries do, ... Read More

Smile Pinki, Megan Mylan's wonderful 2009 Oscar-winning documentary short, is being given away to anyone who asks for it. The film is being distributed by Smile Train, the charitable organization ... Read More

This week’s theatrical releases include two documentaries three documentaries about the entertainment industry and two about children with very specific physical challenges: Crude, opening at New York’s IFC Center on September ... Read More

There are lots of ways to get word out that The Cove is a great documentary and that the message it delivers is important. I hope my radio interview ... Read More

What's the connection between documentaries and reality TV? You might want to make your opinion known and learn what others have to say in response to that question at WESTDOC's West ... Read More

Most highly anticipated among September's theatrical releases is Michael Moore's latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, which opens in select cities on September 23, distributed by Overture Films. As the ... Read More

Girl 27, an extremely interesting documentary that was released in 2007, is now accessible on line and free of charge, thanks to Snag Films. Girl 27 is an expose of a ... Read More