Full Frame will also host “An Evening with Martin Scorsese,” an on-stage interview presentation which has brought Jonathan Demme, Michael Moore, and Harry Shearer to festival-goers in previous years. This year’s Career Award will go to two filmmakers: Ken Burns and Ric Burns.
Other highlights of the festival will include: the theme program, “Why War?” which will look at the origins of warfare through a variety of films and panel discussions.
Spike TV will sponsor a new award called the “Full Frame Spectrum Award” and will be given to documentary filmmakers of color whose film demonstrates filmmaking excellence and achievement in the genre; a Muslim Exchange Program; and the Full Frame Fellows program which in its two years of existence has grown to include 115 students.
Based in Durham, the eight-year-old festival has spent the year developing new programming, educational initiatives, and venues that will help them meet the growing interest in the festival.
The brand-new American Tobacco Campus joins the three venues in downtown Durham the festival has been using.
The festival each year gives out more than $33,000 in cash and services in an assortment of awards, both juried and audience-driven.
Over 200 filmmakers join the large audiences to see over 100 documentaries over the four days.
For further information about the annual festival, visit the Web site at www.fullframefest.org.
