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And the winners are…

Matt Saldaña · 5 Apr 2009, 7:22 PM · Comment

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BURMA VJ–the story of underground reporters who risked their lives to capture video images of a military crackdown in Burma–cleaned up at this year’s festival, picking up a total of three awards, including the Grand Jury Award. THE WAY WE GET BY, UNMISTAKEN CHILD, VOICES FROM EL-SAYED, LOVE ON DELIVERY and the shorts OIL BLUE and 12 NOTES DOWN also took home awards. The full list, including honorable mentions, after the jump. Continue reading »

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Full Frame: Day 1

David Fellerath · 2 Apr 2009, 8:10 AM · Comment

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WAR AGAINST THE WEAK screens this morning at 10:30 in Cinema 3

For many in Durham and the Triangle, the first weekend in April carries an associations other than the basketball Final Four. It’s the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, and it starts today. All weekend long, our crack team of Artery correspondents will watch movies, talk to filmgoers and filmmakers and report their findings here.

I’m stuck at the office this morning, so I’ll most likely miss such intriguing early-bird offerings as George Kachadorian’s SHOOTING BEAUTY, a world premiere about a photographer who devises cameras for severely handicapped people to use; MECHANICAL LOVE, a film that explores the possibility of sentimental feelings between humans and machines (and also provided the Indy with its cover image this week); JOHN HENRIK CLARKE, the late St. Clair Bourne’s study of the Africanist scholar; and WAR AGAINST THE WEAK, Justin Strawhand’s history of the eugenics movement.

If you’re still planning your afternoon, two films I particularly liked are playing: VOICES FROM EL-SAYED at 1:45 pm and 24 CITY at 4:15. I also watched ART & COPY (3:45 pm) and found it to be an entertaining excursion through a half-century of American advertising history.

In this week’s Indy, we published blurb reviews for about 40 films. Click here! 

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