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.
List of documentary film festivals
Africa
Asia
Europe
Middle East
North and South America
| Name |
Est. |
City |
Country |
Website |
|---|
| Big Sky Documentary Film Festival | | Missoula, Montana |  United States | www.bigskyfilmfest.org |
| Culture Unplugged Documentary Film Festival | 2007 | San Francisco, California | United States | www.cultureunplugged.com |
| Camden International Film Festival | 2005 | Camden, Maine | United States | www.camdenfilmfest.org.org |
| Chicago International Documentary Festival | 2003 | Chicago, Illinois | United States | www.chicagodocfestival.org |
| Cine Pobre Film Festival | | La Paz, Baja California Sur |  Mexico | www.cinepobre.com |
| DOCUTAH - Southern Utah International Documentary Film Festival | 2009 | St. George, Utah | United States | www.docutah.com |
| DOXA Documentary Film Festival | 1998 | Vancouver |  Canada | www.doxafestival.ca |
| Encuentros del Otro Cine EDOC | | Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca, Manta, Ibarra, Portoviejo |  Ecuador | www.festivaledoc.org |
| Full Frame Documentary Film Festival | 1998 | Durham, North Carolina | United States | www.fullframefest.org |
| History Makers | 2001 | New York | United States | www.historymakers2011.com |
| Hot Docs | 1993 | Toronto | Canada | www.hotdocs.ca |
| Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival | | Hot Springs, Arkansas | United States | hsdfi.org |
| Imagine International Film Festival | | Clearwater, Florida | United States | imagineinternationalfilmfestival.com |
| International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City (DocsDF) | 2006 | Mexico City | Mexico | www.docsdf.org/en/ |
| It's All True International Documentary Film Festival | 1996 | São Paulo, SP, Rio de Janeiro, RJ | Brazil | www.itsalltrue.com.br |
| Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) | 1998 | Montreal | Canada | www.ridm.qc.ca |
| San Diego Film Festival | 2001 | San Diego, California | United States | www.sandiegofilmfest.com |
| SilverDocs | 2003 | Silver Spring, Maryland | United States | www.silverdocs.com |
| True/False Film Festival | | Columbia, Missouri | United States | www.truefalse.org |
| United Nations Association Film Festival | 1998 | Stanford, California | United States | www.unaff.org |
Oceania
References
- ↑ Nichols, Bill (1998). "Foreword". In Grant, Barry Keith; Sloniowski, Jeannette. Documenting The Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-2639-8.
Mozambique
South Africa
Ghana
India
Syria
Malaysia
Indonesia
Japan
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Israel
Australia
New Zealand