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Tribeca ’13: “Bridegroom” takes audience prize
FILMThe Tribeca Film Festival’s audiences picked Bridegroom, a personal story set around a battle for marriage equality, as its documentary favorite.
Hot Docs ’13: Merit Jensen Carr to receive Don Haig Award
FILM / PEOPLE NEWSThe Winnipeg-based producer (pictured), whose doc Special Ed has its world premiere at Hot Docs today (April 29), is being recognized for her creative vision and body of work, and receives a CAD$10,000 cash prize.
Hot Docs ’13: Indiecan captures Marshall’s “Ghosts”
FILMIndiecan Entertainment has acquired the Canadian distribution rights to Liz Marshall’s feature documentary The Ghosts in Our Machine (pictured), which had its world premiere at Hot Docs in Toronto last night (April 28).
Lanzmann’s “Unjust” set for Cannes
FILM / PEOPLE NEWSThe Last of the Unjust, a new documentary from 87-year-old Shoah director Claude Lanzmann (pictured), is set to have its world premiere at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Tribeca ’13: “Kill Team,” “Oxyana” among award winners
FILMAfghan war doc The Kill Team (pictured) won the Best Documentary Feature prize at the 12th annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York, while Let the Fire Burn took the award for Best Editing in a Documentary Feature.
Tribeca ’13: “(T)ERROR” lands All Access Creative Promise grant
FILMA film on the unravelling of a FBI counter-terrorism sting operation picked up the Tribeca All Access Creative Promise documentary award, while docs on Al Sharpton, criminals and classroom teachers also won grants.
Hot Docs ’13: In a “Manor” of speaking…
FILM / PEOPLE NEWSShawney Cohen (pictured, right) talks to realscreen about his debut feature doc The Manor, which follows his family’s strip club business and kicks off the Hot Docs festival in Toronto today (April 25).
Hot Docs ’13: KinoSmith picks up “Blackfish,” “The Manor”
FILMDistributor KinoSmith has picked up Canadian rights to feature documentaries Blackfish (pictured) and The Manor, both of which will screen at Hot Docs in Toronto over the next 11 days.
CNN, Cinedigm take U.S. rights for “Our Nixon”
FILM / TVCNN Films and Cinedigm have acquired the U.S. television and theatrical rights for director Penny Lane’s all-archival feature doc Our Nixon (pictured).
“Senna” director Kapadia prepping Amy Winehouse doc
FILMSenna director Asif Kapadia is producing a documentary on the life of late Grammy-winning singer Amy Winehouse (pictured), which Focus Features International will sell internationally.
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Realscreen Summit 2013 - Discovery Networks International\'s Julian Bellamy