The Academy documentary branch has selected eight documentary shorts from 35 eligible entries, of which three to five will earn Oscar nominations on January 24. At this year's Ashland Film Festival, the best of ten doc shorts went to The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement, whose co-director Gail Dolgin died last October after a decade-long bout with cancer. In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution is a timely doc about the Arab Spring, was screened at the Nyff (pictured, here's indieWIRE review). Here's the list: "The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement," Purposeful Productions, Inc. "God Is the Bigger Elvis," Documentress Films "In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution," Downtown Docs "Incident ...
- 10/13/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
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