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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Documentaries</title>
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		<title>Oscar 2010: Documentary Feature Semi-Finalists</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-documentary-semi-finalists-123/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-documentary-semi-finalists-123/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 Oscar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academy Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agnès Varda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burma VJ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Every Little Step]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Inc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garbage Dreams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mugabe and the White African]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sergio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Beaches of Agnes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Cove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Under Our Skin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the  15 semi-finalists in the 2010 Academy Awards&#8217; Documentary Feature category. Eighty-nine films had  been in the running. 
The 15 documentary feature semi-finalists are:


The Beaches of Agnes, Agnès Varda, director (Cine-Tamaris)

Burma VJ, Anders Østergaard, director (Magic Hour Films)

The Cove, Louie Psihoyos, director (Oceanic Preservation Society)

Every Little Step, James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo, directors (Endgame Entertainment)

Facing Ali, Pete McCormack, director (Network Films Inc.)

Food, Inc., Robert Kenner, director (Robert Kenner Films)

Garbage Dreams, Mai Iskander, director (Iskander Films, Inc.)

Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders, Mark N. Hopkins, director (Red Floor Pictures LLC)

The  Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon  Papers, Judith Ehrlich [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoav Shamir&#8217;s DEFAMATION Opens in NY/LA</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/yoav-shamir-defamation-screenings-123/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/yoav-shamir-defamation-screenings-123/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defamation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoav Shamir]]></category>

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  European Film Award nominee and a very likely contender for the 2010 best documentary feature Academy Award*, Yoav Shamir&#8217;s Defamation opens on Friday, Nov. 20, in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other cities across the United States.
The film info below is from distributor First Run Features&#8217; website:
&#34;Intent on shaking up the ultimate ‘sacred cow’ for Jews, Israeli  director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative &#8212; and at times irreverent  &#8212; quest to answer the question, &#8216;What is anti-Semitism today?&#8217; Does it  remain a dangerous and immediate threat? Or is it a scare tactic used  by right-wing Zionists to discredit their critics?
&#34;Speaking  with an array of people from across the political spectrum (including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOUR SEASONS LODGE Screenings</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/four-seasons-lodge-screenings-123/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/four-seasons-lodge-screenings-123/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albert  Maysles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Jacobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Four Seasons Lodge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Screenings]]></category>

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Directed by Andrew Jacobs, Four Seasons Lodge is currently playing at New York City&#8217;s IFC Center at Sixth Avenue at West Third Street. The film opens Friday, Nov. 20, at the Quad Cinema at 34 West 13th Street. This week, the filmmaker will be present at the IFC Center&#8217;s Wednesday-Thursday 8pm shows.
The Four Seasons Lodge summary reads:
&#34;From the darkness of Hitler&#8217;s Europe to the lush mountains of New  York&#8217;s Catskills, Four Seasons Lodge follows a community of Holocaust  survivors who come together each summer at their beloved bungalow  colony to dance, cook, fight and flirt &#8212; and celebrate their survival.  Beautifully photographed by a team of cinematographers led by Albert  Maysles (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BLESSED IS THE MATCH, PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/blessed-is-the-match-pray-the-devil-back-to-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemporary Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gini Reticker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linwood Dunn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pray the Devil Back to Hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roberta Grossman]]></category>

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Roberta Grossman&#8217;s Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh and Gini Reticker&#8217;s Pray the Devil Back to Hell (above, lower photo) will be screened as part of the Academy of  Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 28th annual “Contemporary  Documentaries” series on Wednesday, November 11, at 7 p.m. at the  Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free.
Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh tells  the story  of poet, diarist, and paratrooper Hannah Senesh, who took part in the only military rescue mission for Jews during  the Holocaust. Blessed Is the Match was also produced by  Grossman, who will be present to take  questions from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE WAR GAME Review II</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-war-game-review-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth Tynan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Watkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The War Game]]></category>

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THE WAR GAME Review: Part I

Given the spate of nuclear Armageddon films made in the  1960s (e.g., Fail Safe, Planet of the Apes) and up through the early 1980s television production The Day After, it’s  remarkable how such a low-budget effort like The War Game retains its  effectiveness when almost all other films on the topic seem corny. It’s likely  that the timeless effectiveness of Watkins&#8217; film is  the very reason it was banned for  nearly two decades. Scenes of British police shooting civilians were probably deemed too disturbing. Worse yet, the film’s realistic feel and unflinching look at the total  inability of the U.K. government to protect its citizens from a nuclear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE WAR GAME d: Peter Watkins</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/the-war-game-peter-watkins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/the-war-game-peter-watkins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Aspel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar 1966]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Graham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Watkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The War Game]]></category>

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The War Game  (1965)
Direction and Screenplay: Peter Watkins
Narration: Michael Aspel and Peter Graham
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By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
For anyone who  thinks that those 50-pack mega-DVD sets of public domain films put out by  several different video companies are worthless, I would argue that the amount of  films you get for the money is worth it, even if all were mediocre, and that the  truth is:  each DVD package will come with at least 8-10 enjoyable films, a  few true classics like Carnival of Souls or Night of the Living Dead,  and every so often a great little film will pop up that makes  the package a total steal.
One such 50-pack I  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay Documentary THIS AREA IS UNDER QUARANTINE Banned</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/gay-this-area-is-under-quarantine-banned/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/gay-this-area-is-under-quarantine-banned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Censorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Interest]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[This Area Is Under Quarantine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thunska Pansittivorakul]]></category>

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Thunska  Pansittivorakul&#8217;s Thai-made experimental documentary This Area Is Under Quarantine, which discusses  the difficulties faced by both gays and Muslims in Thailand, has been banned by that country&#8217;s Ministry of  Culture from  showing at next month&#8217;s World Film Festival of Bangkok. 
According to a report in the Bangkok Post, the problem has less to do with an outright ban of the film&#8217;s themes &#8212; which includes mention of the Tak Bai Incident of 2004, a case of  police/army brutality that left nearly 100 Muslim protesters dead in the southern Thai province &#8212; than with labyrinthine new laws involving ratings committees and subcommittees that are supposed to classify films shown at special screenings or festivals.

On his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA d: Stacy Peralta</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/crips-and-bloods-made-in-america-d-stacy-peralta/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/crips-and-bloods-made-in-america-d-stacy-peralta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Johnson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crips and Bloods: Made in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forest Whitaker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam George]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stacy Peralta]]></category>

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Crips and Bloods: Made in America (2008)
Direction: Stacy Peralta
Screenplay: Stacy Peralta and Sam George
Narration: Forest Whitaker
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&#160;

In the 1980s and into the first half of the 1990s, gang violence in American urban centers grabbed nightly news headlines with a distant sensationalism that appears almost quaint in the era of the 24-hour news cycle.  Perhaps because threats emerging beyond the borders of the United States appear more prevalent or maybe because superficial aspects of the thug life entered the pop culture vernacular, gang warfare in cities such as Los Angeles has bled into the background of media chatter in the last fifteen years.  
Crips and Bloods: Made in America reintroduces the conversation into the mainstream.  Director Stacy Peralta [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DAVID MCCULLOUGH, GLASS: A PORTRAIT OF PHILIP Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/david-mccullough-philip-glass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemporary Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David McCullough]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David McCullough: Painting with Words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Glass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Hicks]]></category>

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David McCullough: Painting with Words (top); Philip Glass in GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts (bottom)

 David McCullough: Painting with Words and GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion  Picture Arts and Sciences’ 28th annual “Contemporary Documentaries”  series on Wednesday, November 4, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater  in Hollywood. Admission is free.
 Directed by Mark  Herzog and produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, David McCullough: Painting with Words takes a look at the career of Pulitzer Prize-winning  author David McCullough (Truman, John Adams). Herzog will be present to take questions from the audience  following the screening.
Shot on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE END OF POVERTY? US Release</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/the-end-of-poverty-us-release/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amartya Sen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cinema Libre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Sheen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philippe Diaz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The End of Poverty?]]></category>

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Philippe Diaz&#8217;s documentary The End of Poverty?, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival&#8217;s Critics’ Week sidebar and has been screened at more than two dozen  international film festivals, will be released nationwide by Cinema Libre starting in New York City on November 13 (at the Village East Cinema), followed by Los Angeles on November 25 (at the Laemmle Sunset 5 and Culver Plaza Theaters), with a platform release to follow including runs in Seattle, Portland, and Austin, and later in Boston, San Francisco, Washington DC, Philadelphia, and Atlanta.
&#34;Most of the experts interviewed in the film had predicted the current economic crisis more than two years ago, when we started to film, explaining that a system based on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GLASS HOUSE, BANKING ON HEAVEN Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/the-glass-house-banking-on-heaven-screening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Cinematheque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banking of Heaven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dot Reidelbach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamid Rahmanian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurie Allen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
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Two new documentaries to be screened at the American Cinematheque:
The Glass House (above) with director Hamid Rahmanian In Person
  Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at the Aero Theatre
Banking of Heaven with writer-producer Laurie Allen In Person
An Unflinching Look at the Controversial Latter-Day Saint Community
Thursday, October 29, 2009  at the Egyptian Theatre
The Glass House, which was screened at Sundance 2009, is  &#34;an intimate portrait of the never-before-seen plight of underclass Iranian women,&#34; while Banking of Heaven is &#34; an unflinching look at a controversial Latter-Day Saints community&#34; that is described as &#34;home to a culture that routinely practices child rape, welfare fraud and systematic mind control.&#34;
Wednesday, October 28 &#8211; 7:30 PM at the Aero Theatre
THE GLASS HOUSE, 2009, 92 min. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/encounters-at-the-end-of-the-world-flow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemporary Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Encounters at the End of the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flow: For Love of Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irena Salina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linwood Dunn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
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Werner Herzog&#8217;s Academy Award-nominated Encounters at the End of the World (above, lower photo) and Irena Salina’s Flow: For Love of Water will be screened as part  of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 28th annual  “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, October 21, at 7 p.m.  at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free.
Directed by Herzog and produced by Henry Kaiser, Encounters at the End of the World looks at human beings interacting with the harsh environment of   Antarctica.    Werner Herzog will be present to take  questions from the audience following the screening.
Flow: For Love of Water  deals with the dire consequences of increased privatization [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TAPESTRIES OF HOPE Screening in New York</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/tapestries-of-hope-screening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Betty Makoni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freshwater Haven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Girl Child Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michealene Cristini Risley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Socially Conscious Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tapestries of Hope]]></category>

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PRESS RELEASE
Freshwater Haven, a non-profit organization dedicated to addressing the dramatic social change that is required to stop the physical, sexual and emotional abuse of women, announced today it’s production, Tapestries of Hope, will be shown at an exclusive screening on Sunday, October 18, 2009 in New York City. This special event will be followed by screenings at the United States Department of State and in the Capitol Visitors Center Theater 10/20/09.
Tapestries of Hope (www.tapestriesofhope.com) is an astounding story told through the eyes of filmmaker Michealene Cristini Risley. The film captures her sojourn to Africa as she investigated the longstanding myths surrounding the power of virgin blood, including its ability to cure HIV/AIDS. 
Documenting the work of Zimbabwean child and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2009: THE SOUND OF INSECTS Chosen Best Documentary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Peter Liechti&#8217;s Swiss documentary The Sound of Insects &#8211; Record of a Mummy was the winner of the Prix ARTE for best European documentary, the European Film Academy (EFA) has announced.
Inspired by  Shimada  Masahiko&#8217;s novella How I Became a Mummy, itself inspired by true events, The Sound of Insects tells the story of a forest hunter who discovers the  mummified body  of a man &#8212; the remains of someone who starved himself to death while recording the process along the way.
The jury, composed of Franco-Georgian documentary filmmaker  Nino Kirtadzé, Austrian producer Franz Grabner, and   Russian documentary filmmaker Viktor Kossakovsky, decided to give the award to The Sound of Insects &#34;for its   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2010: Early Predictions &#8211; Best Documentary</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-early-predictions-best-documentary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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BEST DOCUMENTARY

The Beaches of Agnès, Agnès Varda
Veteran filmmaker Agnès Varda remembers her life&#8217;s beaches, sand dunes, sun rays, and more.

Burma VJ, Anders Østergaard
In 2007, thousands of monks took to the streets of  Burma to protest the military government&#8217;s brutal anti-democratic policies.

The Cove, Louie Psihoyos
Beautiful, intelligent dolphins are abused and slaughtered to provide entertainment and fodder for ugly, stupid people. The bloody cove of the title is located near  Taijii, Japan, where the government does nothing to stop the slaughter.

Food, Inc., Robert Kenner
The distasteful food industry and their government accomplices vs. your health

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
Daniel Ellsberg, the Vietnam War, the Pentagon Papers, undemocracy at work, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2010: Documentary Short Subject Semi-Finalists</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-documentary-short-subject-semi-finalists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (top); The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (middle); China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (bottom)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the list of eight semi-finalists in the Documentary Short Subject category for the 2010 Academy  Awards. Three to five of those shorts will  end up with Oscar nominations.
The eight films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company:

China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province, Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner, Just Media 
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant, Community Media Productions 
Lt. Watada, Chanlim Films
Music by Prudence, iThemba [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TEN9EIGHT &#8211; Mary Mazzio&#8217;s Inner-City Youth Documentary</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/mary-mazzio-ten9eight-inner-city-youth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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Filmmaker Mary Mazzio

PRESS RELEASE
This is the compelling question behind award-winning filmmaker Mary Mazzio’s newest project Ten9Eight, a thought provoking film which tells the inspirational stories of several inner city teens (of differing race, religion and ethnicity) from Harlem to Compton and all points in between, as they compete in an annual business plan competition run by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE).
The film includes students such as:

Rodney Walker, age 19, Founder of Forever Life Music and Video Productions: Rodney was put into the foster care system at the age of 5 and ended up homeless on the streets of Chicago. Almost becoming a statistic like many of his brothers, Rodney was able to chart a new future – and is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2009: Best Documentary Nominations</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/european-film-awards-2009-best-documentary-nominations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Film Academy has announced the ten non-fiction features up for the 2009 Prix Arte for Best European Documentary. 

The nominated documentaries are: 

THE BEACHES OF AGNES (Les Plages d’Agnès)
  Agnès Varda, France 

BELOW SEA LEVEL, Gianfranco Rosi, Italy / USA 

BURMA VJ, Anders Østergaard, Denmark 

COOKING HISTORY (Ako Sa Varia Dejiny)
  Peter Kerekes, Slovakia / Austria / Czech Republic


THE DAMNED OF THE SEA (Les Damnés de la Mer)
  Jawad Rhalib, Belgium 

DEFAMATION, Yoav Shamir, Denmark / Austria / Israel / USA 

THE HEART OF JENIN (Das Herz von Jenin)
  Leon Geller &#38; Marcus Vetter, Germany 

PIANOMANIA, Lilian Franck &#38; Robert Cibis, Germany / Austria

THE SOUND OF INSECTS – RECORD OF A MUMMY 
  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE: Oscar&#8217;s Docs</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/documentary/bowling-for-columbine-the-fog-of-war-oscars-docs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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Michael Moore shooting Bowling for Columbine

Michael Moore&#8217;s  Bowling for Columbine, Kevin Macdonald&#8217;s One Day in September, and Errol Morris&#8216; The Fog of War are among the 12 Oscar-winning short and feature documentaries to be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and  Sciences’ &#34;Oscar’s Docs, Part Five: Academy Award-Winning  Documentaries 1998–2003&#34; beginning Monday, October 19, at 7:30 p.m. at  the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. The screenings will be  held Monday evenings through November 23.
&#8220;Oscar’s Docs&#8221;  is a comprehensive screening series of every short subject and feature  to win the Academy Award for documentary filmmaking since the category  was established in 1941. 
As per the Academy&#8217;s press release, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MANON, ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AN DESIRED Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/manon-roman-polanski-wanted-an-desired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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This evening, UCLA&#8217;s James Bridges Theater will be screening Henri-Georges Clouzot&#8217;s (right) modernized version of Manon (1949) at 5 p.m., and, at 7:30 p.m., Marina Zenovich&#8217;s now much-discussed documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008), about the circus surrounding the legal (and at times apparently illegal) maneuverings throughout Roman Polanski&#8217;s trial for having sex with a minor in the late 1970s. Admission is free.
I&#8217;m assuming that Wanted and Desired will be packed. So, be ready to stand in line. Also, it should be noted that one of the prosecutors in the case, David Wells, has just recently recanted the story he told Zenovich, which revealed unethical behavior on the part of the judge assigned to Polanski&#8217;s case. Wells now says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perspectives on Editing: Editing  for Documentary Films</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog (lower photo)

The art and craft of editing documentary films is the topic of the third installment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and  Sciences’ four-part seminar series &#34;Perspectives on Editing,&#34; which will be held on  Tuesday, October 6, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn  Theater in Hollywood.
&#34;Perspectives on Editing: Editing  for Documentary Films&#34; will be hosted by Academy Film Editors Branch  governors Donn Cambern (The Last Picture Show, The Bodyguard) and  Mark Goldblatt (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Starship Troopers).  
Special guests will include Kate Amend (The Long Way Home, Jimmy  Carter Man from Plains), Joe Bini (Little Dieter Needs to Fly,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA, THE GARDEN Screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Set in Los Angeles&#8217; impoverished inner city areas, the documentaries The Garden (above, lower photo) and Crips and Bloods: Made in America will be screened as  part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 28th annual  “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, October 7, at 7 p.m.  at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free.
In Scott Hamilton  Kennedy&#8217;s  The Garden,  the organization South Central Farmers fight a wealthy  developer in order to preserve the community garden they created after  the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The Garden earned an Academy Award nomination for  Documentary Feature. Kennedy will be present to take questions from the  audience following the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roman Polanski: Lifetime Achievement Ceremony to Proceed</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/roman-polanski-zurich-film-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The Zurich Film Festival, which runs until Oct. 4, has released the following statement following the arrest of the festival&#8217;s Lifetime Achievement Award honoree Roman Polanski:
&#34;The planned &#8216;A Tribute to &#8230;&#8217; Award ceremony for film maker Roman Polanski will go ahead in his absence. Roman Polanski, one of the greatest film directors of our time would have received an award for his life&#8217;s achievement at the Zurich Film Festival. However, he was detained by the police upon his entry at Zurich Airport. His detention is linked to the demand by US-authorities to a warrant for his arrest in 1978.
&#34;The festival directors have received this news with great consternation and shock. They have decided that the &#8216;A Tribute to &#8230; Roman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MAN ON WIRE, IN A DREAM Screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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 Philippe Petit in James Marsh&#8217;s Man on Wire (top); Isaiah and Julia Zagar in Jeremiah Zagar&#8217;s In a Dream (bottom)

James Marsh&#8217;s Man on Wire and Jeremiah Zagar&#8217;s In a Dream will launch the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216;  28th  annual &#34;Contemporary Documentaries&#34; screening series  on Wednesday, September 30, at 7 p.m. at  the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission to all screenings in  the series is free.
Man on Wire tells the story of  Philippe Petit, who in 1974 walked on a wire illegally rigged  between the twin towers of New York City’s World Trade Center &#8212; a feat  that became known as &#34;the artistic crime of the century.&#34; Directed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE 10 CONDITIONS OF LOVE Controversy at the Melbourne Film Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene Young</dc:creator>
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Protesting the planned appearance of Uighur-independence activist Rebiya Kadeer, whom the Chinese government blames for the ethnic violence this month between Uighurs and Han Chinese, a hacker has  posted a Chinese flag on the Web site of the Melbourne International Film Festival, the New York Times has reported, citing the Associated Press. The ethnic riots in the East Turkistan region left nearly 200 people dead.
The hacker, reportedly a Chinese man offended by Kadeer&#8217;s scheduled appearance at the screening of Melbourne-based filmmaker Jeff Daniels&#8216; documentary The 10 Conditions of Love, also left messages in English demanding an apology from festival organizers. The 10 Conditions of Love, which chronicles Kadeer and her family&#8217;s struggles against the Chinese government&#8217;s oppression, premiered at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TRAINING RULES: Q&amp;A with Dee Mosbacher</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Winner of the audience award for best documentary at the 2009 edition of San Francisco&#8217;s gay film festival, Frameline, Dee Mosbacher (right) and Fawn Yacker&#8217;s Training Rules &#8212; screening at Outfest tomorrow, July 11, at 4:30pm at the FAIRFAX 1 (on a double bill with Elizabeth Hesik&#8217;s Lady Trojans) &#8212; tackles the issue of anti-gay bigotry in women&#8217;s sports, particularly at  the Pennsylvania State University.
 For nearly three decades, Penn State&#8217;s  Lady Lions basketball coach Rene Portland (above, lower photo), known as &#34;The Mommy Coach,&#34; insisted that in her  team there would be absolutely no drugs, no booze, and no lesbians &#8212; purportedly with the intent of removing the stigma of lesbianism from women&#8217;s sports. In 2006, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TRAINING RULES: Dee Mosbacher Interview II</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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TRAINING RULES: Q&#038;A with Dee Mosbacher: Part I
 Have you heard from Rene Portland &#8212; or anyone associated with her &#8212; after the film was completed?
No. We made a diligent effort to find her, but it was clear she had no interest in talking to us.
I would like to clarify something.  Although we&#8217;ve been discussing the Penn State case, I want to make sure that you understand that this form of discrimination, based on sexual orientation goes on every day at colleges, universities, high schools and in professional sports. And it happens to both women and men, albeit in very different ways.
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 So, what about men&#8217;s sports? Would you say that blatant homophobia is an issue there as well? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outfest 2009: PRODIGAL SONS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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&#34;I started out making a film about my adopted brother’s journey to discover his new lineage. It was undeniably a great story, a real-life fairy tale. I also felt guilty that life had been easy for me but not for Marc. I imagined that by celebrating his amazing tale I could ease his pain, and maybe heal our relationship. I thought I’d be making a film about the second chapter in our lives. Little did I know we weren’t done with the first.
&#34;Anyone who has met Marc will tell you that you can’t tell his story without telling mine. Our rivalry growing up was the most important dynamic in his life, and remains so to this day. So I knew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olivier Meyrou&#8217;s BEYOND HATRED on PBS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Olivier Meyrou&#8217;s 2006 documentary Au-delà de la haine / Beyond Hatred, an exploration of the effects of  a  29-year-old gay man&#8217;s brutal murder in the northeastern French city of Rheims, will be shown as part of PBS&#8217; P.O.V. series on Tuesday, June 30, at 10:00 pm.
François Chenu happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. One night in 2002, three skinheads were looking to &#34;do an Arab,&#34; but since apparently none could be found in the Rheims park where they were roaming, they settled for a gay man instead. Chenu reportedly fought back fiercely, but even so he was beaten unconscious and thrown into a pond, where he drowned. 
Meyrou&#8217;s documentary depicts the aftermath of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silver Docs Film Festival Awards 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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2009 Silver Docs Film Festival Awards
 2009 Silver Docs Film Festival: June 15-22 in Washington, D.C.
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Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher&#8217;s October Country (top) depicts the multi-generational story of an American working-class family coping with myriad problems, from poverty to war. Andrew Thompson and Lucy Bailey&#8217;s Mugabe and the White African chronicles the fight of a white family to protect their land from deranged Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe.
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Sterling US Feature Award: OCTOBER COUNTRY
Sterling World Feature Award: MUGABE AND THE WHITE  AFRICAN 
Sterling Short Award: 12 NOTES DOWN  
Special Jury Mention:  SALT
Music Documentary  Award:  RISEUP
Special Jury Mention:  SOUL POWER 
The Cinematic Vision Award: OLD PARTNER
The WITNESS Award  Goes:  GOOD FORTUNE 
Writers Guild of  America [...]]]></description>
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