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Gotham Award Noms for Best Doc
From the IFP release, “Presented by IFP, the Gotham Awards provide a critical spotlight and important boost to breakthrough independent films…”
Best Documentary
The Devil Came on Horseback
Annie Sundberg & Ricki Stern, directors; Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg, Gretchen Wallace, Jane Wells, producers (International Film Circuit)Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
Jonathan Demme, director; Jonathan Demme, Neda Armian, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)My Kid Could Paint That
Amir Bar-Lev, producer/director (Sony Pictures Classics)Sicko
Michael Moore, director; Michael Moore, Meghan O’Hara, producers (The Weinstein Company)Taxi to the Dark Side
Alex Gibney, director; Alex Gibney, Eva Orner, Susannah Shipman, producers (THINKFilm)
The award that I like to follow at the Gothams is the “Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You.” The nominess for that category are:
August the First
Lanre Olabisi, director; Shawn Alexander, Gabriel “Swede” Sedgwick, Nicky Arzeu Akmal, Lanre Olabisi, producersFrownland
Ronald Bronstein, director; Marc Raybin, producerLoren Cass
Chris Fuller, director; Chris Fuller, Frank Craft, Kayla Tabish, producersMississippi Chicken
John Fiege, director; John Fiege, Anita Grabowski, Victor Moyers, producersOff the Grid: Life on the Mesa
Jeremy Stulberg & Randy Stulberg, directors; Eric Juhola, Jeremy Stulberg, Randy Stulberg, producers
Results from IFP
From the Filmmaker magazine e-newsletter, “IFP has announced a number of sales and financing deals which took place at – or immediately following – this year’s IFP Market. Bari Pearlman sold US distribution rights for her documentary feature Daughters of Wisdom to Seventh Art Releasing. Danae Elon pre-sold her documentary The Evil Tongue to Finnish public television. Canadian public broadcaster CBC Newsworld announced that it made pre-sale offers, and is currently in discussions with, three of this year’s documentary works-in-progress, including Goold’s Gold by Tucker Capps and Ryan Sevy, Cornered by Eric Drath, and If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, by Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman. Finally, San Francisco-based Chicken & Egg Pictures has also awarded completion grants of $10,000 each to three female documentary filmmakers. The awarded projects included Dee Rees’s Eventual Salvation, Luisa Dantas’s Land of Opportunity: The New New Orleans, and Yolanda Pividal’s Tijuana Nada Más.” I thought you might like to hear some of the results since I was pitching the Market pretty hard.
iW: Doc Filmmakers Guide to the IFP Market
Approaching its 29th incarnation, running from September 16 -19 in downtown New York, the Independent Feature Project’s IFP Market has become an important stop for documentary films. Unlike a festival, the Market is intended to give buyers and festival programmers a peek at new work. Through closed screenings, networking meetings like “speed dating” as well as buyer-requested one-on-ones, and a host of typical parties and social opportunities, to the uninitiated, the Market can be, as IFP executive director Michelle Byrd called it, “mystifying.” Read the article>>
IFP Rough Cut Lab
If you are nearing a rough cut, you have probably heard about IFP’s Rough Cut Lab, but the deadline is coming up quickly on September 10 so I figured I’d post a reminder.
The IFP Documentary Rough Cut Lab is a national program connecting mentors and projects before they are submitted to festivals. The Lab aims to identify 10 high quality independently produced documentaries each year that can benefit from the support and expertise of experienced film professionals. The key creative teams of these projects receive feedback from a range of professionals in editing, scoring, post delivery, outreach, marketing and publicity, sales representation and festival strategy. The 2007 Documentary Lab Leaders: the documentary production team of Arts Engine, Inc.: (Election Day, Deadline, Arctic Son, Nuyorican Dream). As part of IFP’s ongoing commitment to diversity, the Documentary Rough Cut Lab seeks to ensure that at least 50% of the participating projects have an inclusive range of races, genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities and physical abilities in key creative positions.
Key criteria: the Lab is for first-time documentary feature directors who have at minimum a full rough assembly for consideration. Full criteria and submission procedures. Submission deadline: September 10.
Unsettled takes Slamdance
Yeah! Adam Hootnick’s Unsettled take the Grand Jury award at Slamdance. It was one of our IFP selections so I’m very proud that it is off to such a great start on the fest circuit. It is a powerful film about young Jewish settlers in the Occupied Territories as they are evicted from their homes.
The audience prize for best documentary went to Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills & Todd Sills’ “Red Without Blue.” Read the rest on indieWIRE>>
I'm really looking forward to this one and was excited to see the trailer posted, but it looks like the ...
Thanks for the feedback Mark, I'll keep that in mind :) 
Wow, that does look great!
More video, Agnes! I love when you post cool stuff like this! 
Right on! I thought the exact same thing when I read the times article. I think its also ...