Documentary film festivals
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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.
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[edit] List of documentary film festivals
[edit] Africa
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 Mozambique |
www.dockanema.org |
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Cape Town |
 South Africa |
www.encounters.co.za |
[edit] Asia
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Documentary Film Festival |
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 Lebanon |
www.docudays.net |
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Documentary Film Festival |
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 China |
www.gzdoc.com |
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Film Festival: Cinema Vérité |
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 Iran |
www.irandocfest.ir |
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Livelihood Documentary Competition |
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 India |
www.ccsindia.org/ccsindia/jeevika |
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Documentary Film Festival |
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 Taiwan |
tidf.tmoa.gov.tw |
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India |
2008.vibgyorfilm.com |
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 Singapore |
www.wildlifeasia.org | |
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Documentary Film Festival |
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 Japan |
www.yidff.jp |
[edit] Europe
[edit] North and South America
[edit] Oceania
| Name | Est. | City | Country | Website |
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Documentary Film Festival |
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Dunedin, Christchurch |
 New Zealand |
www.docnz.org.nz |
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Documentary Film Festival of Tahiti |
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 French Polynesia |
www.filmfestivaloceanie.org |
[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
