Deals: SXSW Sparks More Music Documentary Signings
Tweet Two months ago at Sundance, music documentaries practically flew off the shelves into distributors’ carts. This week South by Southwest brings more anecdotal evidences that movie shops are...
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Tweet Where: Wellington, New Zealand When: May 8 – 19 What: Part two of “Australasia’s premiere international documentary festival” takes place each May in New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington...
View ArticleSundance London
Tweet Where: London, England When: April 25 – 28 What: Second edition of the London spinoff of Robert Redford’s iconic Utah film festival, screening several of this year’s Sundance favorites plus...
View ArticleTennessee Two: Nashville, Memphis Film Fests Bestow Music Documentary Honors
Tweet The chief content wrangler just got back from a long weekend holiday, during which we missed awards announcements from two of the South’s proudest and – not surprising, given their locations –...
View ArticleSeattle Int’l Film Festival
Tweet Where: Seattle, Washington When: May 16 – June 9 What: Advertised as the most attended film festival in the US – 150,000 went last year – and quite possibly the longest, with this 39th edition...
View ArticleMuscle Shoals Music Documentary Flexes at Hot Docs
Tweet The 20th anniversary edition of Toronto film festival Hot Docs wrapped Sunday after attracting record attendance in the 180,000 range, and when the crowd had spoken, music film Muscle Shoals...
View ArticleDoc/Fest Preview: The Sounds of Sheffield
Tweet Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer Ah, spring, and a South Yorkshire city’s fancy turns to documentary. It would have to, the weather being what it is in these parts. But we kid Sheffield, because we...
View ArticleAFI Docs
Tweet Where: Washington, DC When: June 19 – 23 What: The festival known for its first decade as Silverdocs and formerly held in the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre a stone’s throw from...
View ArticleKnow Your Platinum Anniversary Doc/Fest Music Film Schedule!
Tweet Elektro Moskva That’s right, platinum (or china, if you’re a traditionalist): Sheffield Doc/Fest turns 20 this year. Weird that platinum is 20 while gold is 50, whereas a platinum album denotes...
View ArticleSweet Home Alabama: Motoring to Muscle Shoals with Greg Camalier
Tweet The Swampers and friends at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio. It all started with a U-turn. It was May 2008, and Greg “Freddy” Camalier was helping his childhood pal Stephen Badger move from the East...
View ArticleMelbourne Int’l Film Festival
Tweet Where: Melbourne, Australia When: July 25 – August 11 What: 62nd edition of the self-described “most significant screen event in Australia” (take that, Sydney!), showcasing cinema from across...
View ArticleSidewalk Film Festival
Tweet Where: Birmingham, Alabama When: August 23 – 25 What: Hailed by Time as one of the “top ten film festivals for the rest of us” – meaning, guess, people who don’t go to Sundance and Cannes –...
View ArticleMilwaukee Film Festival
Tweet Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin When: Septebmer 26 – October 10 What: The fifth iteration of this growing film fest in the City of Cheeseheads brings back dedicated music documentary category Sound...
View ArticleMuscle Shoals
Tweet If you never knew what Lynyrd Skynyrd meant by “In Muscle Shoals they got the Swampers,” find out September 27 as the Greg “Freddy” Camalier’s music documentary Muscle Shoals opens in US...
View ArticleReel Music
Tweet The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle Where: Portland, Oregon When: October 11 – 27 What: Annual festival spotlighting music film (and primarily music documentary) put on by the Portland Art Museum’s...
View ArticleBeefeater In-Edit
Tweet Where: Barcelona, Spain When: October 24 – November 3 What: Probably the world’s biggest music film festival by number and breadth of titles, Barcelona’s In-Edit (officially Beefeater In-Edit,...
View ArticleMuscle Shoals
Tweet “The incredible true story of a small town with a big sound,” this critically acclaimed music documentary debut about miraculously soulful Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and how it got that way is out...
View ArticleKrakow Film Festival
Tweet Where: Krakow, Poland When: May 25 – June 1 What: Poland’s oldest film festival, dating to the national short film competition inaugurated in 1961 and, through numerous permutations, now...
View ArticleKrakow Film Fest Preview: Doc-ing All Over the World
Tweet Polish punk documentary For Being Alive Brazilian squeezebox, Bulgarian jazz, genuinely revolutionary punk and rap, and the purest flamenco are in the mix in the highly competitive music...
View ArticleICYMI: Montage of Heck Returns, Johnny Depp Goes to Muscle Shoals
Tweet Music documentary news from the past week that you might have missed. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck has been on HBO and it’s out on DVD and VOD, but as anyone who encountered Brett Morgen at last...
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