The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is one of the United States' premier documentary film festivals held over the course of four days each spring at the Carolina Theater in Durham, North Carolina.

The festival is renowned for its presentation of both new and curated documenataries as well as panel discussions, seminars, question and answer sessions and the overwhelming support it has garnered from filmmakers, film industry executives, and the general public. Produced by the non-profit organization Doc Arts, Inc., the festival is funded by private and corporate sponsors.

The festival receives over 1,000 new films for consideration, the most of any documentary awards festival in the United States.

Prizes

The prizes awarded at the 2006 festival:

• The Full Frame Grand Jury Award for best overall film.
• The Full Frame Audience Award is chosen by ballot of the attendees of the festival.
• The Full Frame Jury Award for Best Short is given to the best film of 40 minutes or less.
• The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) Filmmaker Award for the film which best gives a firsthand look at the central issues of contemporary life and culture.
• The Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award for the best first-time documentary feature filmmaker.
• The Full Frame/Emerging Pictures Audience Award
• The Full Frame Inspiration Award for the best film examining religion and spirituality.
• The Full Frame President's Award for the best student film.
• The Full Frame Women in Leadership Award for the film that best examines women in leadership positions.
• The Full Frame/Working Films Award for the film that has the greatest chance of initiating grassroots organizing and social change.
• The Seeds of War for the two filmmakers who best examine the causes of war.

External links

• Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Website

Film festivals | Documentaries