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The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is one of the United States' premier documentary film festivals, held over the course of four days each April in downtown Durham, North Carolina. One of the main venues is the Carolina Theater. The festival began in 1998 with no more than a few hundred patrons and has grown tremendously since then.[1]

The festival is renowned for its presentation of both new and curated documentaries as well as panel discussions, seminars, and question and answer sessions, along with the support it has garnered from filmmakers, film industry executives, and the general public. Produced by the non-profit organization Doc Arts, Inc., the festival is funded by private sponsors, some corporate. A few examples of sponsors include The New York Times (which left in 2009),[1] Duke University, A&E, HBO, and the City of Durham.

Full Frame has reached national recognition not just from its impressive programming but also the presence of numerous filmmaking celebrities. Over the years, those attending have included Morgan Spurlock, Michael Moore, DA Pennebaker, Martin Scorsese, Danny DeVito, Ken Burns, Joan Allen, Mira Nair, Al Franken, Sydney Pollack, Barbara Kopple, Steve James, George Butler, Alex Gibney and many others.[1]

The festival receives about 1200 new films for consideration for the New Docs program.

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Curated Series

Each year the festival invites a member of the documentary filmmaking community to curate a series of films on a specific topic. The curated series have included:

Career Award

Each year, the festival presents a filmmaker with the Full Frame Career Award. Past recipients include:

Industry Award

Occasionally, the festival honors an industry member who has made important contributions to the field with the Full Frame Industry Award. Past recipients include:

  • 2007: P.O.V./Marc Weiss
  • 2003: Pat Mitchell
  • 2001: Soros Documentary Fund/Diane Weyermann
  • 2000: Sheila Nevins

Awards

The festival offers a number of prizes at each festival.

The prizes awarded at the 2009 festival:

  • The Full Frame Grand Jury Award for best overall film.
  • The Full Frame Audience Award is chosen by ballot of the attendees of the festival.
  • The Full Frame Jury Award for Best Short is given to the best film of 40 minutes or less.
  • The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) Filmmaker Award for the film which best gives a firsthand look at the central issues of contemporary life and culture.
  • The HBO Emerging Filmmaker Award for up-and-coming documentary filmmakers in both the director and producer roles.
  • The Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award for the best first-time documentary feature filmmaker.
  • The Full Frame Inspiration Award for the best film examining religion and spirituality.
  • The Full Frame President's Award for the best student film.
  • The Full Frame/Working Films Award for the film that has the greatest chance of initiating grassroots organizing and social change.
  • The Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights for a film that addresses a significant human rights issue in the US.

Past Grand Jury Award winners are:

References

  1. ^ a b c Morris, Neil (2009-04-01). "A smaller, more compact festival yields documentary riches". Independent Weekly. http://indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A354662. Retrieved 2009-04-03.  

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