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Monday Memo: A New Home

As you likely know by now, Stranger Than Fiction as you know it has been rebranded as Pure Nonfiction at IFC Center (our new home can be found at the link), so I wanted to drop a quick line to let you know that the Monday Memo also has a new home at DOC NYC, where […]


SERIES REBRANDED AS “PURE NONFICTION AT IFC CENTER”

Pure Nonfiction at IFC Center, the popular documentary series previously known as Stranger Than Fiction, announced its winter season line-up, featuring ten documentaries playing from February 5 to March 26. The season opens with UNITED SKATES (Feb 5), winner of the Tribeca Audience Award, about roller skating in black communities across the United States. The […]


Monday Memo: Director Bill Siegel Dies at 55

News broke mid-week that filmmaker Bill Siegel, Oscar nominated co-director of THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND and director of Emmy-winner THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI, died at the age of 55 due to a heart attack that prior Saturday. Many of his colleagues wrote remembrances at the Kartemquin Films page, and Tom White collected a number of pieces […]


Monday Memo: MINDING THE GAP Tops 2018 IDA Awards

It should come as no surprise to anyone following the award season happenings that on Saturday night Bing Liu’s MINDING THE GAP was named Best Documentary at the 34th Annual IDA Documentary Awards at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles. Other honorees included Floyd Russ’s ZION (available via Netflix), which won Best Short, Chapman Way and Maclain […]


Monday Memo: 2019 Sundance Film Festival Lineup Announced

Though the week of Thanksgiving is typically slow going for doc news, it is traditionally the week that filmmakers receive the good news that their films have been accepted to the forthcoming edition of the Sundance Film Festival, which means that this past week the rest of us were graced with the 2019 lineup of […]