Category: RECENT NEWS
Among the Believers – IDFA2016 Official Selection
We are proud to announce Among the Believers as an Official Selection of this year’s open competition. This documentary will be screened at our annual Film Award & Festival to be held Oct. 28 in Kobe, Japan. Official Selection –...
IDFA2016 Featured Documentary: Human Harvest
We are proud to present Leon Lee’s award winning documentary Human Harvest as this year’s Featured Documentary. Winner of the Peabody Award for Documentary and Canadian Screen Award Nominee, the film investigates government sanctioned organ harvesting in China linked to...
Submission Deadline Approaching: September 30 2016
With a little over a month remaining until the September 30 submission deadline, we would like to thank everyone who has already entered this year’s IAFOR Documentary Film Award (IDFA2016). The award was founded to seek out and reward the...
Tentacle Sync Becomes IDFA2016 Prize Sponsor
We are pleased to welcome Tentacle Sync as an official Prize Sponsor of this year’s IAFOR Documentary Film Award. They will be contributing two Tentacle Sync Standard Sets and cables to the Award’s prize pool. Founded by filmmakers Ulrich Esser...
“Documentary Journalists on the Front Line” – Brent E. Huffman
Associate Professor Brent E. Huffman, IDFA2015 Honorary Award Recipient, was a Featured Speaker at The Asian Conference on Media & Mass Communication 2015 (MediAsia2015) in Kobe, Japan. In our modern age of vanishing journalism outlets, documentary filmmakers are filling the...
Marovo Carver – Grand Prize Winner (2015)
Marovo Carver Directed by Elliot Spencer Tasiro is a wood carver who expertly creates traditional sculptures, which represent Solomon Island culture and reflect the natural beauty of the environment that surrounds him. Dedicated to his craft Tasiro uses carving as...