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INDY Week at Full Frame: What's the difference between bearing witness and exploitation?

David Fellerath — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 09:13:54 -0400

At the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, INDY Week contributor Ashley Melzer spoke to several filmmakers and one festival-goer about the line between bearing witness and exploitation.

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INDY Week at Full Frame: Why Documentary?

David Fellerath — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 13:04:00 -0400

INDY Week contributor Ashley Melzer asked several filmmakers attending the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival what makes documentaries special.

Indyweek asks: Why documentary? from Independent Weekly on Vimeo.…

Ross McElwee talks his latest film, his Full Frame program and his son

Craig D. Lindsey — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:40:00 -0400

When it was announced that filmmaker and previous Full Frame Career Award recipient Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) would curate this year's "Family Affairs" thematic program on Saturday, many McElwee admirers must have exclaimed "Of course!"

If there is a documentary filmmaker who knows how to merge family matters into his films, it's Charlotte's McElwee.…

Full Frame video interview: Julie Moggan, director of Guilty Pleasures

Ashley Melzer — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:50:00 -0400

Interview with Julie Moggan, Director of Guilty Pleasures from Independent Weekly on Vimeo.

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Full Frame video interview: Susan Saladoff, director of Hot Coffee

Ashley Melzer — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:02:00 -0400

Interview with Susan Saladoff, Director of Hot Coffee from Independent Weekly on Vimeo.

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Full Frame Day 4: taking refuge from the storm—in reality

David Fellerath — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:54:21 -0400

The big news of the area Saturday was the destructive system of tornadoes that whipped through at about 3 p.m. But for 1,200 people inside Fletcher Hall, our biggest concern was whether David Carr, one of the paper's higher-profile writers, would get his big story about the Tribune media group and its clownish, destructive leaders.…

Full Frame Day 3 (Friday review): the Kerouac-like DRAGONSLAYER plus thoughts on the Lovings

David Fellerath — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:31:00 -0400

The late-night slot at Full Frame—those movies that start in the witching hours of 10 p.m. or so, are always a tough call for the intrepid Full Framer. By then, we've seen three or even four movies.…

Full Frame video interview: Jarred Alterman discusses Convento

Ashley Melzer — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:16:00 -0400

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Full Frame Day 2: Thoughts on The Pipe and Oregon, plus Day 2 preview, Barbara Kopple and guns

David Fellerath — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:23:56 -0400

Indy scribes fanned out through theaters Thursday. It was gratifying to see familiar faces, and healthy attendance in the rooms.…

Full Frame video interview: Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher discuss Raising Renee

Ashley Melzer — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:46:00 -0400

Raising Renee screens at 2 p.m. Friday in Fletcher Hall.…

Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar: The Indy interview

David Fellerath — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:37:00 -0400

Indy contributor olufunke moses wrote a piece discussing the curated series of work-related films at Full Frame. Her story, in which she interviewed the filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, who programmed the 18 films seen this weekend, appears here.…

Do it Again, Again: The full text of the Indy interview with Geoff Edgers

David Fellerath — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:55:15 -0400

Friday night at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Robert Patton-Spruill's Do It Again: One Man's Quest to Reunite the Kinks played to a packed Fletcher Hall. Patton-Spruill and his film's titular character, longtime music reporter Geoff Edgers, took the stage afterward for questions.…

More Full Frame sked: Soderbergh; Hegedus-Pennebaker; Steve James/Allen Iverson; Thelonious Monk film

David Fellerath — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:29:21 -0500

More programming news from Full Frame: Fourteen invited, out-of-competition films were named today.

The short version: It's going to be a good festival.…

2010 Full Frame lineup announced: Alex Gibney's Abramoff film and more

David Fellerath — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:31:26 -0500

The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival announced its new docs competition lineup for next month's festival, which runs April 8–11 in downtown Durham.

The full lineup is below, but our initial scan reveals a couple of names well known to festival fans, including Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side; Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and Laura Poitras (Flag Wars; My Country, My Country).…

Sundance competition lineup announced but no Main Street to be found

David Fellerath — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:28:37 -0500

UPDATE 12/4/09: Still no news of Main Street. Sundance announces out-of-competition premieres.…

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The Full Frame interviews: Steve James

Derek Anderson — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:12:43 -0400

Watch an interview with Hoop Dreams Director Steve James at the 2009 Full Frame Film Festival in Durham, NC, where James curated a sidebar of documentary films entitled The Sporting Life.

Hoop Dreams was revolutionary both in terms of scope and due to its immense popularity.…
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The Full Frame interviews: Joel Salatin from Food, Inc.

Derek Anderson — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:17:51 -0400

Watch an interview with farmer and prominent food advocate Joel Salatin at the 2009 Full Frame Film Festival in Durham, N.C., where Robert Kenner's documentary, Food, Inc., was screened and featured Salatin's sustainable practices at his Ployface Farm in Virginia.

Ultimately, how a society raises and distributes its food is the clearest manifestation of that culture's values, a point upon which Salatin reflected in the film, igniting the packed theater into roaring applause during last week's screening:

"A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic, inanimate structure to be manipulated by whatever creative design the human can foist on that critter will probably view individuals within its community and other cultures within the community of nations with the same type of distain and disrespect and controlling-type mentality."

Read more of Suzanne Nelson's review of Food Inc. and interview with Director Robert Kenner.…
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The Full Frame interviews: Wavy Gravy and Michelle Esrick

Derek Anderson — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:02:55 -0400

Watch a short interview with hippie icon and ice cream flavor Wavy Gravy and Michelle Esrick, director of Saint Misbehavin' The Wavy Gravy Movie, following the film's screening at the 2009 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, N.C.

Satirist Paul Krasner describes Wavy as the "illegitimate son of Harpo Marx and Mother Theresa, conceived one starry night on a spiritual whoopie cushion," to which Wavy has replied, "Some people tell me I'm a saint, I tell them I'm Saint Misbehavin'."

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William Gates: 'This is your NCAA Tournament'

Matt Saldaña — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:46:02 -0400

William Gates, the subject of Steve James' genre-defining basketball documentary HOOP DREAMS, told a panel of filmmakers that attending this year's Full Frame Film Festival (his first, by his count, and just the fifth time he had watched the film) "reminded me of how I pursued the game of basketball-- I wanted to be the best at it."

Indeed, seated with Gates were among the best filmmakers in their league: Barbara Kopple (HARLAN COUNTY USA, FALLEN CHAMP), George Butler (PUMPING IRON, THE GOOD FIGHT) and Steve James (HOOP DREAMS), along with two promising new players in Arturo Cabanas (MAN UP) and Andrew Lang (SONS OF CUBA). James had organized the panel in culmination of this year's excellent sports film series, "This Sporting Life."…
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And the winners are...

Matt Saldaña — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:22:13 -0400

BURMA VJ--the story of underground reporters who risked their lives to capture video images of a military crackdown in Burma--cleaned up at this year's festival, picking up a total of three awards, including the Grand Jury Award. THE WAY WE GET BY, UNMISTAKEN CHILD, VOICES FROM EL-SAYED, LOVE ON DELIVERY and the shorts OIL BLUE and 12 NOTES DOWN also took home awards.…
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Full Frame Day 4: Sunday morning bliss

David Fellerath — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:31:23 -0400

When you've had a really good Saturday night—and didn't drink too much—you can open your eyes to a sunny spring morning and think about the marvelous things you've done and be grateful that one more day of adventure awaits you this weekend. Yesterday's day of outstanding docs was capped last night—for those who care—by a closing night party, an NCAA semifinal victory by UNC, a playoff-clinching win by the Carolina Hurricanes and an Orlando Bloom sighting.

We've been shooting a few video interviews this weekend and hope to have them posted soon.…
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Don't compare Vogue magazine to Bronx Bombers

Karlie Justus — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:20:48 -0400

I doubt Andre Leon Talley will take in a Durham Bulls game on future trips to the Triangle.…
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Three movie stars walk into a bar in Durham

Matt Saldaña — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:51:21 -0400

Intrepid Indy culture editor/Full Frame blogger/celebrity spotter David Fellerath reports that Orlando Bloom, Colin Firth and Patricia Clarkson are enjoying a few drinks together at the Durham Marriott. The three actors will star in the film project known as Main Street, which is set to begin production in Durham after the festival.…
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Full Frame Day 3: Hoops at the beginning and at the end

David Fellerath — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:00:44 -0400

It's another beautiful day in Durham. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and the Full Frame doc fest hits the home stretch.…
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Wanted for Review

Marc Maximov — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:47:40 -0400

Consider this: At last year’s Full Frame, BIGGER STRONGER FASTER*, a fast-paced, rousing dissent from the conventional wisdom about anabolic steroids, won over a large crowd in Fletcher Hall. It had been a hit at Sundance, and seemed to have enough popular appeal to make a splash at the box office.…
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