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Grey Gardens Grey Gardens is a 1975 American documentary film by Albert and David Maysles. The film depicts the everyday lives of two reclusive, formerly upper class women, a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale, who lived in poverty at Grey Gardens, a derelict mansion at 3 West End Road in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival but was not entered into the main competition.
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Meru (film) Meru is a 2015 documentary film chronicling the first ascent of the "Shark's Fin" route on Meru Peak in the Indian Himalayas. It was co-directed by married couple Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and won the U.S. Audience Documentary Award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
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A People Uncounted A People Uncounted is a 2011 Canadian documentary film directed by Aaron Yeger about the culture and history of the Romani people (commonly known as "gypsies") in Europe, with special emphasis on their plight during The Holocaust. The film also warns of the similarities in intolerance between the time of the Porajmos (Romani Holocaust) and the increasing intolerance and abuse of Roma rights in Europe today. It was nominated for a Producers Guild of America award in 2012. The film was featured in the New York Gipsy Festival and is part of Vanderbilt University's "Holocaust Lecture Series".
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Banff Mountain Film Festival The Banff Mountain Film Festival is an international film competition and an annual presentation of short films and documentaries about mountain culture, sports, and environment. It was launched in 1976 as "The Banff Festival of Mountain Films" by The Banff Centre and is held every fall in Banff, Alberta. Held concurrently is the Banff Mountain Book Festival which brings the spirit of mountain literature to Banff, and features guest speakers, readings, seminars, and an international book competition.
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Incidents of Travel in Chichen Itza Incidents of Travel in Chichén Itzá is an award winning ethnographic film (ethnographic documentary).
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Ammar International Popular Film Festival Ammar International Popular Film Festival (AIPFF), is held in Tehran, Iran and showcases international documentary film, fictions, animations, clips, music videos, photo albums and other kinds of media with a focus on social and economic issues. It has been held at the turn of the New Year since 2010 and is sponsored by the Office of Cultural Studies for Islamic Revolution. Notable contributors have included Danny Schechter and John Pilger.
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Ann Arbor Film Festival The Ann Arbor Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Ann Arbor in the U.S. state of Michigan. Established in 1963, it is the third-oldest film festival in North America (after the Columbus International Film & Video Festival, 1953; and the San Francisco International Film Festival, 1957); and the oldest "experimental" film festival. It has become one of the premier film festivals for independent and, especially, experimental filmmakers to showcase their work. Now entering its 55th year, the Ann Arbor Film Festival attracts over 3,000 entries from filmmakers in more than 60 countries, and distributes over $20,000 in cash awards. As a pioneer of the traveling festival concept in 1964, each year the Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour continues to present a collection of short films at more than 30 art house theaters, universities, galleries and cinematheques throughout the world.
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Sami Mermer Sami Mermer is a Turkish Canadian documentary filmmaker of Kurdish descent.
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Black Sun (2005 film) Black Sun is a documentary film directed by Gary Tarn. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2005.
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A Walk to Beautiful A Walk to Beautiful is a 2007 American documentary film, Executive Produced by Steven M. Engel and Helen Diana ("Heidi") Reavis, produced and distributed by Engel Entertainment about women who suffer from childbirth injuries in Ethiopia. In 2007, it premiered in film festivals and was chosen for the International Documentary Association Best Feature Documentary Film of the Year award. The following year, the film opened in theaters in the United States in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. A 52-minute version of "A Walk to Beautiful" that premiered on "NOVA" on PBS on May 13, 2008 won the 2009 Emmy Award in the Outstanding Informational Programming (Long Form) category on September 21, 2009 at the News and Documentary Emmy Awards ceremony on September 21, 2009 at Rose Hall, Lincoln Center in New York City.
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Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love is a 2008 documentary film directed by filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi that chronicles Senegalese icon Youssou N'Dour as he releases his Grammy Award-winning album "Egypt" and works to promote a more tolerant view of Islam. The film features musical superstar/activists Bono and Peter Gabriel. The documentary screened at festivals internationally including the Telluride Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival in 2008, winning numerous audience awards as well the Special Jury Prize at the Middle East International Film Festival in 2008 and a nomination for the Pare Lorentz Award at the International Documentary Association Awards in 2009. The film premiered in New York City as the opening night of Brooklyn Academy of Music's Muslim Voices: Arts & Ideas Festival in 2009, and opened in theaters in the US and internationally to much acclaim. The film's soundtrack was released by Nonesuch Records in 2010.
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Hamilton Underground Film Festival The Hamilton Underground Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Hamilton, New Zealand. The festival is open to all and has no admission fee for film entries. Each entrant receives a DVD which contains all the entered films.
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Happy Valley (film) Happy Valley is a 2014 American documentary film, written and directed by Amir Bar-Lev. The film had its world premiere at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2014.
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Makala (film) Makala is a 2017 French documentary film directed by Emmanuel Gras. It was screened in the International Critics' Week section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes, it won the Nespresso Grand Prize.
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Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival The Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival is a documentary film festival held biennially in Yamagata, Japan ( ).
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Transilvania International Film Festival The Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF; Romanian: "Festivalul internațional de film Transilvania" ) is the first international feature film festival in Romania, which is held annually in the historic capital of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca. Founded in 2002 by the Romanian Film Promotion (Romanian: "Asociația pentru Promovarea Filmului Românesc" ), TIFF has grown rapidly to become the most important film-related event in Romania. It is a member of the Alliance of Central and Eastern European Film Festivals (CentEast) and it is supported by the Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme. In February 2011, TIFF has been accredited by the FIAPF as a "competitive festival specialised on first and second feature films". Indiewire listed it as one of the world's top 50 leading film festivals.
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Thessaloniki Documentary Festival The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century (TDF) is a film festival specialising in documentary films which takes place every March in Thessaloniki and is affiliated with the International Thessaloniki Film Festival.
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Northwest Filmmakers' Festival The Northwest Filmmakers' Festival is an annual film festival in Portland, Oregon, U.S. It is a juried survey of new moving image arts by independent filmmakers from the Northwest United States (Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington) and British Columbia. It is presented by the Northwest Film Center, a component of the Portland Art Museum.
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Wild Burma: Nature's Lost Kingdom Wild Burma: Nature's Lost Kingdom is a British documentary television series that first broadcast on BBC Two on 29 November 2013. The three-part series explores Myanmar's forests. The filmmakers are Gordon Buchanan, Ross Piper and Justine Evans. The scientists for the series are Chris Wemmer, Darrin Lunde, Khyne U Mar, Kristofer Helgen and Nicole Edmison.
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New Forest Film Festival The New Forest Film Festival takes place in the Autumn in the New Forest, Hampshire, UK. The festival programme comprises film screenings and special events that take place at locations across the forest.
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Crystal Film The Crystal Film (Dutch: Kristallen Film ) is a film award recognising domestic box office achievements in the Netherlands. The Crystal Film is awarded to documentary films from the Netherlands once they have sold 10,000 tickets. The award is an initiative of the Netherlands Film Festival and the Netherlands Film Fund to increase media attention for Dutch documentary films, in addition to the existing Golden Film and Platinum Film for Dutch films in general. They announced the introduction of the Crystal Film on 28 April 2005. The first Crystal Film was awarded on 21 June 2005 to "Shape of the Moon" (2004). Since its introduction, the Crystal Film has been awarded to twelve films.
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G2 Green Earth Film Festival The G2 Green Earth Film Festival is an annual environmental film festival that takes place at The G2 Gallery in Venice, California. The festival began in 2013 and screens eco-centered documentaries and narrative films alongside panel discussions and celebratory parties.