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Cinema Eye names the ten finalists for its 2013 Outstanding Short Film Award, as chosen by a committee of international film festival programmers. The nonfiction films are listed below. Five of the finalists will be announced as nominees in October, prior to the 6th Annual Cinena Eye Honors in January. This will be the third year Cinama Eye recognizes nonfiction shorts with an award. Past recipients of the award include Tim Hetherington's "Diary" and Vance Malone's "The Poodle Trainer." The ten finalists are: Aaron Burr, Part 2 (USA), directed by Dana O’Keefe CatCam (USA), directed by Seth Keal Cutting Loose (Scotland) directed by Finlay Pretsell and Adrian McDowall Family Nightmare (USA), directed by Dustin Guy Defa Fanuzzi’s Gold (USA) , directed by Georgia Gruzen Good Bye Mandima (Kwa Heri Mandima) (Switzerland), directed by Robert-Jan Lacombe ...

Cinema Eye names the eleven finalists for its Honor for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking. Five official nominees will be named on October 26, 2011, and a winner will be announced January 11 at the 5th Annual Cinema Eye Honors in NYC. This marks the second year Cinema Eye has recognized films in the nonfiction short category. Vance Malone's The Pool Trainer was last year's winner. Finalists, listed below, include the late Tim Hetherington (for Diary; stills pictured), who was nominated for two Cinema Eye awards in 2011 for Restrepo. You can watch Diary here. 2012 Cinema Eye Honors Short Film Finalists: Bathing Micky (Micky Bader) (Sweden/Denmark) Directed by Frida Kempff Diary (United Kingdom) Directed by Tim Hetherington Guanape Sur (Italy) Directed by Janos ...

It was a wonderful night celebrating documentary filmmaking at the fourth annual Cinema Eye Honors, held in the beautifully renovated Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, N.Y. on January 18th. Hosted by filmmakers Aj Schnack (Kurt Cobain: About a Son) and Esther Robinson (A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory), the nominees comprised of some of the best documentary films of 2010, truly a celebration of nonfiction filmmaking rather than a competition. David Schwartz, the chief curator of the Museum, relayed the thoughts of many filmgoers who say that “the best films at festivals are the documentaries.” The night kicked off with musical accompaniment by the Quavers and an excerpt of Utopia in Four Movements, performed by Sam Green. His excerpt was at both funny and poignant, touching upon a mix of history and comedy, segueing between 1960s ideas of the future world to...

The Cinema Eye Honors, devoted to highlighting the best of the year's nonfiction films, have flipped for Lixin Fan's fantastic "Last Train Home," which follows a family of migrant workers as they struggle to stay connected while living separated by hundreds of miles. "Last Train Home" received the most nominations -- seven -- while Banksy's "Exit Through The Gift Shop" and Afghanistan documentary "Armadillo" each received six. The award ceremony will take place on January 18 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, and will be broadcast on the Documentary Channel.

Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking

Armadilllo

Directed by Janus Metz

Produced by Sara Stockmann and Ronnie Fridthjof

Exit Through The Gift Shop

Directed by Banksy

Produced by Jaimie D'Cruz

Last Train Home

Directed by Lixin Fan

Produced by Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross

Marwencol

Directed by Jeff Malmberg

Produced by Jeff Malmberg, Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Chris Shellen...

The 2010 edition of the Worldwide Short Film Festival wraps up today and the award winners (with the exception of the Audience Award winner, which comes later tonight) were announced at the closing picnic - where local post-rock act Old World Vulture performed and unveiled a slew of impressive new material - earlier this afternoon. And they are:

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The Bravo!Fact Award for Best Canadian Short and a cash prize of $5,000 was captured by director Jean Malek for the visually arresting Les Poissons (Fishes) . 

 

Special Mention goes to Theodore Ushev's Lipsett Diaries (Les Journaux De Lipsett) a technical masterpiece that transcends genres.

 

J.B. Sugar received The Jackson-Triggs Award for Best Emerging Canadian Filmmaker and a cash prize of $5,000 for his documentary Wood If.  

 

The Deluxe Award for Best Live Action Short was awarded to Hamy Ramezan (Finland) for Over The Fence (Viiko...

I love Documentary Shorts programs because they're fascinating little slices of life from around the world that I'd never otherwise be privy to (plus, the films are so short that if you don't like one, all you need to do is wait 15 minutes for it to be over). Last night, I saw IFFBoston's Shorts 2: Docs package. We usually don't write about short films here at /Film, but I thought that Keep Dancing and The Poodle Trainer were so great, I just had to throw out a quick word about them. After the jump, trailers for the films and my brief thoughts. Vance Malone's The Poodle Trainer is an amazing short film about the life of Irina Markova, a Russian poodle trainer, who discusses her life as a circus worker and her relationship with her dogs. The footage of what she is able to accomplish these poodles to do...

Tatiana Von Furstenberg and Francesca Gregorini's "Tanner Hall" earned the Acura Grand Jury Award for Best Feature at the Gen Art Film Festival, which concluded Tuesday night in New York.

The Acura Grand Jury Award for Best Short went to Vance Malone's "The Poodle Trainer."

Josh Radnor's "happythankyoumoreplease" and Jeff Sousa's "The Hirosaki Players" took home the festival’s Audience Awards.

Additionally, Wonderwall.com's Stargazer Award recognized Rooney Mara of "Tanner Hall" as the most talented emerging actor at the fest.

The 7th annual Calgary Underground Film Festival is ready to start off with a bang this year on April 12 and then continue through to April 18. Opening night will see the results of the festival’s wildly popular 48-hour Movie Making Challenge, where registered teams were given a genre, a prop and a line of dialogue; then sent out to craft perfect cinematic masterpieces in just two short days.

Then, the rest of the fest is dedicated to some of the wildest films made in both the fest’s home country of Canada and from around the world, including Indonesia, Serbia, the UK and the U.S.

If you’re attending the festival, there’s one incredibly fun documentary you need to see: Michael Petersen’s Eddies: The Documentary, about the craziest beer commercial-making competition in the world — that happens to take place right in Calgary every year! Petersen profiled several...

Director Ben Coccio's Zero Day took the Grand Jury prize for best narrative feature, worth $100,000 in goods and services, at the Orlando-based Florida Film Festival, which concluded Sunday. The audience award for best narrative feature went to Never Get Outta the Boat, directed by Paul Quinn. The Grand Jury prize for best documentary was presented to Paul Devlin's Power Trip, while Elaine Epstein's State of Deniel took home the audience award for best documentary. Among narrative shorts, Paul Gutrecht's The Vest won both the Grand Jury award and the Audience Award. Vance Malone's Ocularist earned the Grand Jury award for best documentary short, while Alex Budovsky's Bathtime in Clerkenwell won the Grand Jury award for animated short. Special jury awards were also presented to Greg Pak's Robot Stories, Jonathan Karsh's My Flesh and Blood, PES's Roofsex, and Shane Sauer's Voyage of the Kitty Kuku. The narrative features jury was comprised of Raymond De Felitta, Dave Karger, and Diana Williams. The documentary competition jurors were Alan Berliner, Mary Litkovich, and Kelly M. DeVine. The shorts jury was comprised of Michael Ellenbogen, Laura Levine, and Stephen Schaefer. The student works jurors were Tracy Frenkel, Leslie Halpern, and Katrinka VanDeventer.