The Oscar category for Best Documentary Feature has long been controversial for frequently omitting some of the most acclaimed, well-known, and successful documentaries over the many years.
In the Documentary Feature category, we have another tight race.
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This year, I felt certain the race for the Best Documentary Feature award was between two exceptional films that were of great relevance, great emotional impact, and all-around superb filmmaking.
He first worked with Tollin on the latter's Oscar-nominated 1995 feature documentary, "Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream, " and the two have remained friends since.
Loubet says the inspiration for this concept came from the feature documentary film, Forks Over Knives, which a friend showed him during a visit in Miami.
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"Searching for Sugar Man, " a widely praised movie also distributed by Sony Pictures Classics about the hunt for the missing musician Sixto Rodriguez, won the award for best feature documentary.
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More prosaically, Adria and elBulli have been the subject of a documentary, and a feature film about the restaurant is in the works.
However, in his new feature-length documentary, brazenly named The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, he has taken quite a different tack.
Their stories led her to make "A Life Outside, " a feature-length documentary on their lives and the Seaside Heights surf scene.
The preparation for the journeys is being recorded in a feature-length documentary by an Irish-Ugandan film-maker, Emile Dineen, who helped set up the Breakdance Project.
Now a Canadian filmmaker, Amber Fares, is making a feature-length documentary about the Speed Sisters and their incredible journey from the streets of the West Bank.
Even the two feature-length documentary films by James Blue take as their subjects Houston's housing crisis in the 1970s rather than Buffalo's own broken downtown and ethnic strife.
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Based on a feature-length documentary Kavanaugh bought in 2010, about a man who falls in love online with a woman who proves to be a fake, the show is the highest-rated program on MTV.
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The Academy Award-winning director recently completed " Neil Young Journeys, " his third feature-length documentary on the iconic folk-rocker, which mingles footage of Young alone onstage at Toronto's Massey hall with moving scenes of him driving through his childhood home of Omeeme, Ontario.
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If you're feeling this thing you've probably already got a really good reason why (shooting a feature-length documentary, perhaps?), but for the record, Canon's director of marketing sounded like they really did want to do 1080p, but they couldn't hack sourcing the CCD components necessary.
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It will feature news, lifestyle, documentary, talk and debate, and it seeks to be an alternative to traditional Hispanic networks.
She will feature heavily in a film documentary, Forget Us Not, set for release later this year, which follows the stories of some of the five million non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
The Discovery Channel will feature the Steven Spielberg-produced documentary "Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero, " and the Spanish network Telemundo will broadcast a five-hour show from that location.
They created a production company, Derives, in 1975 and made more than 50 documentary and industrial movies before turning their attention to feature films.
The documentary filmmaker is in the process of finishing her second feature, entitled How To Lose Your Virginity.
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Successful inclusive education practices from Quebec, Canada will be showcased at the event which will also advocate for the rights of persons with disabilities through art and feature the work of blind photographers and short documentary films.
The site currently offers some 50 documentary and short films, along with streaming video of trailers from feature films by Israelis.
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This is a concept for a platform that will post an ongoing series of short documentary videos from research labs around the U.S. These videos will feature true-life, human stories of young scientists, especially women and minorities, who can provide inspiring role models for the next generation.
The Master, which also stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, is Phoenix's first feature film since I'm Still Here, Casey Affleck's spoof 2010 documentary which chronicled Phoenix's supposed retirement from acting to launch a career as a rapper.
Though this narrative feature film project will mark something of a departure for Broomfield, fans of his documentary work can rest assured that he will continue to make his famously chaotic documentaries: he is reportedly close to completing a documentary about Sarah Palin.
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