From a pool of 89 feature-length documentaries eligible for Oscar consideration this year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ documentary screening committee narrowed the decision to a final 15. The Sundance Documentary Film Program would like to congratulate Rebecca Cammisa (Which Way Home) and Mai Iskander (Garbage Dreams), for officially making the 2009 [...]
The Sundance Documentary Film Program would like to congratulate Ngawang Choephel (Tibet In Song) and Natalia Almada (El General), for their nominations at this year’s International Documentary Association Doc Awards.
Slipping through the predawn darkness over highways, through traffic and across the border, Palestinian construction workers go to work clandestinely in Israel every day. Raw, handheld photography follows workers who build their own border shanty community to enter Israel more easily, with no choice but to risk their lives simply to earn a living.
BEIJING TAXI is a feature length documentary that vividly portrays the ancient capital of China going through a profound
transformational arch. Through a humanistic lens, the intimate lives of three taxi drivers thread through the morphing city of Beijing confronted with modern issues and changing values.
The Visitors is a documentary about passengers of a charter bus that leaves New York City every weekend for various prisons located in Upstate New York. Reflecting the struggles of a unique culture living at the intersection of confinement and the free world, the story follows the coordinator of the bus -Denise- whose husband is coming home soon after 17 years of imprisonment.
In what is left of the city of Jaffa, a man about to lose his house contemplates his fate. Meanwhile two women remain tied to their homes. In a nearby cafe an old captain sits motionless the whole day through, while another man moves restlessly like a fish in an aquarium.
Filipino-American filmmaker Ramona Diaz’s new documentary THE LEARNING follows a group of four Filipino schoolteachers who have migrated to Baltimore, Maryland, to teach in inner-city schools.