Once again before hitting the weekend here is your Friday Doc News roundup:
Here is a film that was reviewed very positively by 'The New York Times,' 'LA Times', and 'The Washington Post', Under our Skin is about Lyme’s disease and how the medical establishment has failed to recognize it as a serious killer much less treat it effectively.
/Film brings you a free screening of a documentary titled "Zombie Girl" about Emily Hagins, a 12-year-old girl from Austin Texas who spent two years directing a feature-length zombie movie. Encouraged by her mother Megan, who produced, created the special effects and held the boom mic, Emily filmed the movie on weekends and school holidays.
Probably one of the most ridicules ideas for a documentary, according to examiner.com "Just when you thought only homes and properties were haunted - an upcoming documentary sets out to prove that cars can also be haunted" DocMovies sources suggest a sequel is already in preperations - Hunted Washing Machines, we'll keep you posted.
Here is something for the electric guitar lovers among us “It Might Get Loud” documentary debuts, the film profiles The Edge from U2, Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin, and Jack White of the White Stripes. And this week guitar legend Les Paul passed away, you can catch a doc about him here
NY Film festival is upping its documentary quotient. Although last year brought the unspooling of Ari Folman's animated military documentary "Waltz With Bashir," this year includes five nonfiction pictures, a recent high: Don Argott's art-world nonfictioner "The Art of the Steal," Catherine Breillat's serial-killer exploration "Bluebeard," Zhao Dayong's rural-China examination "Ghost Town," Ilisa Barish and Lucien Castaing-Taylor's shepherding tale "Sweetgrass" and Andrey Khrzhanovsky's Josef Brodsky documentary "Room and a Half." Via azcentral.com
The Welcome Trust - Call For Entries
The Wellcome Trust Broadcast Development Awards Pitch is returning to Sheffield Doc/Fest for a second year! Come and pitch your science documentary idea to the Wellcome Trust for a £10,000 prize. Filmmakers are invited to apply for the chance to pitch an idea about health, biology or medicine to an expert panel. The pitch is open to innovative documentary, game and online projects that can engage large audiences with the impact of biomedical science on our lives and on society.
Park ranger Shelton Johnson could be Ken Burns’ next documentary celeb
"Ken Burns’ mega-docs have spawned a star or two. Shelby Foote rose from obscurity after his bravura performance on “The Civil War.” Local legend Buck O’Neil, a pretty darn good baseball player in the Negro Leagues and the first African-American major-league coach, found the greatest stardom of his life after being a major voice on “Baseball.” Now comes Shelton Johnson, a wonderfully astute park ranger who sounds as if he would be just as at home on a college campus as he is on the back trails of Yosemite National Park, where he has been stationed for 15 years. Read the full article from Kansascity.com
A review about the winner of the top prize at the biannual Taiwan International Documentary Festival.
Bob Marley's documentary got its second pull out - Scorsese dropped out of the project last May citing scheduling conflicts, and Jonathan Demme was brought on to replace him but now he is out of the film too. A source suggests that Demme's exit took place after the movie's producer, Bill Clinton pal Steve Bing, saw the director's first round of editing and was less than impressed. via OneIndia
A talking head documentary trailer about yet another group of people talking on and on about their obsseions - The Achievers about The Big Lebowski fans.
That is all foe now, have a great weekend!
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