Trailer: Sundance 2013 Selection ‘The Summit’ Might Be the Scariest Found-Footage Film Yet
One of the films announced this week as part of the World Documentary Competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival is Nick Ryan‘s The Summit. The film is about a K2 climbing trip from 2008 that returned only 13 of its 24 participants, and it mixes footage shot during the mission with dramatizations and interviews members of the team and …
Read More"The Waiting Room" Leads Documentary Nominees for 2013 Independent Spirit Awards
The day after winning the Gotham Award for Best Documentary, How to Survive a Plague has just received a nomination for the equivalent honor at the 2013 Independent Spirit Awards. Interestingly enough, it’s joined by a near identical pack of films as those it competed against at the Gothams (last year saw a similar overlap). The two repeat contenders include …
Read More"Sound of Mumbai" Director Turns to the Science of Adoption With "The Dark Matter of Love"
There have been a ton of documentaries made about adoption, but a new film won’t just be following a family with a new addition, it will also be about the scientific study of love. Titled The Dark Matter of Love, it’s the latest from Sarah McCarthy, director of The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical and one of Realscreen’s recently named …
Read MoreDocs in Theaters: "The Central Park Five"
The Central Park Five Directed by: Ken Burns (The Civil War), Sarah Burns and David McMahon (co-producer of Ken Burns’s The War) What it’s about: Based on Sarah Burns’s book of the same name (subtitled “The Untold Story Behind One of New York City’s Most Infamous Crimes”), the film about an infamous rape case in NYC in 1989, for which …
Read MoreTrailer: "56 Up" is Treated Like the Momentous Film Event It Is
If you’ve never seen the famous Up documentary series, this trailer will probably entice you to get into it before the latest installment arrives in theaters next year (they’re all streaming on Netflix for your convenience). The whole thing is properly treated in this trailer like the monumental classic that it is, and the release of the new film, 56 …
Read More"Being Elmo" Subject Kevin Clash Has Resigned From "Sesame Street"
Here is a short, upsetting follow-up to a story from last week. Kevin Clash, subject of the documentary Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey and voice/performer of the Muppet Elmo on Sesame Street and elsewhere, has resigned from the gig. As you surely know, a man whom Clash had a relationship with came out alleging that their sexual affair began when …
Read MoreOscar Nominee Brett Morgen to Direct a Kurt Cobain Documentary
Filmmaker Brett Morgen, who is receiving a lot of acclaim right now for his new Rolling Stones doc, Crossfire Hurricane, is working on a feature documentary about Kurt Cobain, according to Entertainment Weekly. Actually, it was the New York Post that first reported the news last week, but EW has found out additional and more correct information about the biographical …
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