Thanks to Christopher Allen at UnionDocs for giving us a shoutout over at the Full Frame Film Festival this year. UnionDocs’ primary program right now is the Documentary Bodega Series, where you can check out fresh documentary work every Sunday at their workshop/living space in Brooklyn.

LOS ANGELES, CA and BROOKLYN, NY — Sundance Institute and Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
today announced the program of the third annual Sundance Institute at BAM series: 22 feature films
and 36 short films including a selection fresh from the 2008 Sundance Film Festival; filmmaker Q&A
sessions, theater and musical performances, works-in-progress, screenplay readings, art installations and
more. [...]

An eccentric, skinny Frenchman, who dedicated much of his time, passion, and energy to a historic and illegal tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers and an amateur rapper and ex-drug dealer displaced by Hurricane Katrina — these were the two subjects of the 2008 Full Frame Film Festival . James [...]

Go here for the full read of this great article on Ry and her awesome short, MARION. Thanks, Bilge!

As one colleague put it, “it’s a good day to see a movie”. That pretty much describes the general ambiance of the 2008 Full Frame Documentary Festival, now in its 11th year. What with sleepy Durham, North Carolina and those sumptious rainshowers to contend with, every day does indeed seem like a wonderful opportunity to [...]