Nina Davenport

09/30/09 Last week, America's indie film community took a long, hard look at its precarious state.  |  Independent Film Channel (IFC)

12/30/08 Moviefone I almost called this a 'Watch This' post, and then a 'Fan Rant', but either way, the general idea is that I'd recommend all of you to tune in or at least record PBS tonight for the 11 PM EST broadcast premiere of Nina Davenport's terrific documentary, Operation Filmmaker , in which a young Iraqi film student is invited to work on the set of Liev Schreiber's Everything is Illuminated and how that experience begins to unravel for all involved -- Davenport included (and that's not to mention appearances from Elijah Wood and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as themselves!).  |  Cinematical.com

12/29/08 As the Korean New Wave fades and dissipates, from a throng of cultural force fields to a mere battery of individual filmographies, ambitious or withering or otherwise, one director stands as the most passionately embraced and steadily distributed in the tradition of imported art films.  |  Independent Film Channel (IFC)

12/23/08 Plenty of documentarians today still rely on the same old creative crutches, but in the year 2008, the docs that rubbed up against the zeitgeist had to be bold, provocative or artful to stand apart.  |  Independent Film Channel (IFC)

12/15/08 Stranger Than Fiction , the weekly documentary film series programmed by Thom Powers and presented by IFC Center , will launch its ninth season on January 13, 2009 with a sneak preview of Ben Kempas ' " Upstream Battle ."  |  indieWIRE

10/02/08 The 7th annual Documentary Film Festival (DocFest) has announced its programming, screening 60 films over three weeks.  |  indieWIRE

09/04/08 Martin Scorsese and others will be gracing Gotham's mean streets during the New York Film Festival's just-announced special events.  |  Variety