The Montreal International Documentary Festival is looking for $10,000 to be raised via the crowd-funding campaign to back a second year of film screenings for young audiences.
The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) has wrapped with Magnus Isacsson’s Ma vie reelle (pictured) named best Canadian feature, and The Patron Saints awarded best new talent from Quebec/Canada.
For its upcoming 15th edition, the Montreal International Documentary Festival is launching Docs 2.0, a section to showcase interactive documentaries, in collaboration with the Canada Media Fund.
The 15th Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) has revealed its line-up, which includes Yung Chang’s The Fruit Hunters (pictured), Leviathan, 5 Broken Cameras and Detropia.
The Montreal International Documentary Festival has named its opening and closing films for this year, with the Quebec premiere of Peter Mettler’s The End of Time (pictured) kicking off proceedings on Nov. 7.
The Canadian filmmakers, along with doc director Frederick Wiseman and musician Lou Reed, are guest programmers for the Montreal International Documentary Festival’s anniversary.
UPDATED: The Montreal doc fest has defended itself against charges of supporting sexism after receiving a letter protesting the choice of Frederick Wiseman’s Crazy Horse, which portrays a Parisian erotic dancing venue, as this year’s opening film.
Musician turned filmmaker Lou Reed will be on hand to present his Red Shirley to the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) on November 15 at the Cinematheque quebecoise.
Charlotte Selb, director of programming for the Montreal International Documentary Film Festival, says the changing direction of the documentary genre has resulted in a vibrant, varied program this year.
With RIDM’s opening and closing films already announced, Stephanie Lanthier’s Les Fros and Lucy Walker’s Waste Land respectively, the remainder of the Montreal doc fest’s slate has been revealed along with a number of Canadian docs taking the spotlight.
The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) is to open its 13th edition on November 10 with Les Fros (The Foreigners), a film about northern Canadian logging camp workers by Stephanie Lanthier.