Documentary film festivals are film festivals devoted solely to documentary film, which is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality.
Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a television series. Documentary, as it applies here, works to identify a "filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception" that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries.[1]
In many cities around the world, documentary film festivals are held annually to showcase documentaries made that year. Many of them are theme or genre specific.
[edit] List of documentary film festivals
[edit] Africa
[edit] Europe
[edit] North and South America
| Name | Est. | City | Country | Notes | Website |
| Big Sky Documentary Film Festival | | Missoula, Montana | United States | | http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org |
| Charleston Documentary Film Festival (ChasDoc) | | Charleston, South Carolina | United States | | http://chasdOC.org |
| Charleston International Film Festival | 2007 | Charleston, South Carolina | United States | April 8-11, 2010 at the American Theater 446 King St. | http://www.CharlestonIFF.com |
| Chicago International Documentary Festival | 2003 | Chicago, Illinois | United States | Festivals postponed until further notice. | http://www.chicagodocfestival.org |
| Cine Pobre Film Festival | | La Paz, Baja California Sur | Mexico | | http://www.cinepobre.com |
| DocMiami International Film Festival | | Doral, Florida | United States | | http://docmiami.org |
| Ambulante Gira de Documentales | 2006 | Different cities around Mexico | Mexico | This is an annual traveling documentary film festival, which visits between twelve and sixteen cities around Mexico, with a program of up to fifty documentaries | [http://www.ambulante.com.mx/ |
| Festival Internacional de Cine Documental Ciudad de Mexico (DOCSDF) | | Mexico City | Mexico | | [http://www.docsdf.com/ |
| Full Frame Documentary Film Festival | 1998 | Durham, North Carolina | United States | | http://www.fullframefest.org/ |
| Hot Docs | 1993 | Toronto | Canada | Held annually in April; North America's largest documentary film festival. | http://www.hotdocs.ca/ |
| Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival | | Hot Springs, Arkansas | United States | | http://hsdfi.org |
| Imagine International Film Festival | | Clearwater, Florida | United States | | http://www.imagineinternationalfilmfestival.com[[International |
| It's All True (film festival) (International Documentary Film Festival Brazil) | 1996 | São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | | http://www.itsalltrue.com.br/ |
| Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montreal | | Montreal | Canada | | http://www.ridm.qc.ca/ |
| SilverDocs | | Silver Spring, Maryland | United States | | http://www.silverdocs.com |
| Southern Utah International Documentary Film Festival (DOCUTAH) | 2009 | St. George, UT | United States | | http://www.docutah.com |
| Stories from the Field: The Annual United Nations Documentary Film Festival | | New York City | United States | | http://www.storiesfromthefield.org/ |
| True/False Film Festival | | Columbia, Missouri | United States | | http://www.truefalse.org/ |
| United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) | | Stanford, California | United States | | http://www.unaff.org/ |
| Doc Meeting Argentina | | Buenos Aires | Argentina | | http://www.docmeeting.com.ar/ |
[edit] Oceania
[edit] References
- ^ Nichols, Bill. 'Foreword', in Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski (eds.) Documenting The Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997
