UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art

Are you a first time filmmaker in the US and anticipate finishing your first project by March 2014? If so, you may be eligible to apply for the 2013 Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant! The grant provides travel and accommodations to the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, which takes...

Following its successful World Premiere at IDFA last month, UnionDocs advisor Hilke Schellmann and Habiba Nosheen’s ”Outlawed in Pakistan,” will be one of 65 short films selected for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. “Outlawed in Pakistan” follows the story of Kainat Soomro, a...

“A fever-dream tour of nocturnal New Orleans.” - Eric Hynes, New York Times TCHOUPITOULAS by Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross Opens at the IFC Center on Friday, December 7 80 Minutes | USA A kaleidoscopic odyssey into another side of New Orleans, this is a visually...

We invite your proposals for papers, presentations, and other less traditional formats for the Performing Documents conference on 12-14 April 2013 at Arnolfini in Bristol, UK. Performing Documents is a three-year research project that looks at questions of historical narratives of...

*Photo: SINGLE STREAM Have a little extra money approaching this holiday season? Check out these four very worthy doc projects and find a way to get involved! THE FAITHFUL Check out this feature doc project by former UnionDocs Collaborative member Annie Berman, edited by Collaborative...

The 36th annual Margaret Mead Film Festival opens November 29, Thursday and ends Sunday, December 2. Named for the famous Museum anthropologist Margaret Mead, the festival encompasses a broad spectrum of creative storytelling, from indigenous community media to experimental documentaries. Its...

November 2, 2012, Los Angeles, Calif. – Thirty-one feature films and five shorts will vie for this year’s Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking as nominees were announced this afternoon in Los Angeles at an event hosted by AFI FEST. For the second year in a row, six films are in the...

Ten Weeks to Make? AIR is Calling You. AIR and free103point9 are partnering to offer an exciting residency program for producers in spring 2013. We’re looking for adventurous collaborators – media-makers, artists, and documentarians interested in working together to explore/exploit media...

Call for Proposals Bastard Film Encounter Thursday April 25, 2013 (6pm) – Saturday night April 27, 2013 (late night) bas•tard [bas-terd] noun something irregular, inferior, spurious, or unusual. en•coun•ter verb to come upon or meet with, especially unexpectedly: to...

Congrats to the nominees for IFP’s 22nd Annual Gotham Award for Best Documentary! No big surprises here, and it’s going to be a tough choice for voters. Here are the nominees for Best Documentary: Detropia - Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, directors; Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady,...