Since 2011, Philip Glass' 'Days and Nights Festival' has brought together luminaries and pioneers together from across the arts, and now they've launched a streaming portal designed to create real income for the artists involved.
BlackStar Film Festival, founded 9 years ago, is an annual celebration of the visual and storytelling traditions of the African diaspora and of global communities of color and here's a look at some of the best features we saw.
Recently announced, the 2024 Sundance Film Festival will include music documentaries on Brian Eno, Lollapalooza, Luther Vandross, Devo, and how rap lyrics have played a role in court cases.
This year's Doc'N Roll Film Festival takes place between October 27 and November 13 in the UK.
After over four decades in Park City, Utah, the Sundance Film Festival will relocate to Boulder, Colorado, beginning in 2027.
Do you how much I missed movies on the big screen, and also film festivals, after three months of the pandemic? I drove over an hour, to a destination in a state I don't live in, on a Tuesday night, to what's believed to be the world's first drive-in film festival.
If there’s any highly anticipated annual occasion that's of the same caliber as the holiday season, it would undoubtedly be film festival season; celebrated not just by the media and entertainment industry but also by film fanatics across the globe.
Two-time Oscar-winning director Alejandro Iñárritu announced he is restoring the first film of his "death trilogy", 'Amores Perros'," and will be screening it at the Morelia Film Festival.
The second pandemic year of 2021 featured a wide variety of fantastic music documentaries. Some gave us better understandings of artists we've known for a long time, while others re-contextualized great performances in a new light. Here's the 20 best of the year.
London's Prince Charles Cinema is set to immerse audiences in a curated selection of somber films during 'Bleak Week.'
The new documentaries on Leonard Cohen, T. Rex’s Marc Bolan, Lil Baby, Detroit techno, and cult rapper the D.O.C. will have their premieres at the festival.
For most emerging filmmakers, Sundance Film Festival is a rite of passage into making a name for themselves, so let's get a deeper understanding of what it's all about, what programmers are looking for, and how to better navigate the film festival circuit.
'The Friend', which recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, seems to be so moving that Led Zeppelin’s lead singer, Robert Plant, decided not only to licence the songs but give the producers a steep discount.
Sundance Film Festival’s 2026 edition (first without Robert Redford) will continue showcasing promising music-themed films.
The uncertainty and painful longing we have been struggling with during these unprecedented times have been powerfully articulated through Kay Niuyue Zhang’s short film 'Mother in the Mist.'
The Philadelphia Film Festival wrapped up its 2024 edition, and here's 3 of the best music documentaries that were on show.
Iranian Film Festival New York returns for its third edition showcasing world, US and NY premieres in a program of more than fifteen films.
The DOC NYC film festival is running this month in New York, featuring a huge program of documentaries from around the world. This year's festival is especially strong in films about music; here are three of the most notable ones.
Like most years, the Philadelphia Film Festival was held at the end of October. Unlike most years, they held a series of drive-in screeners and an online streaming platform. Here's our thoughts on some of the fest's most notable films.
DOC NYC 2024 is currently underway now, and here are some music documentary highlights that have been shown.
Just about every major national and regional film festival in the U.S. has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, but, the Lighthouse International Film Festival will be the first to segue into a fully drive-in format.
Today, short films have taken a different shape by building its own audience and market, creating its own stronghold in every major studio, and serving as an important currency for aspiring filmmakers to showcase their talents.
The annual Tribeca Festival wrapped up on Sunday, both in New York and virtually, and as usual, the film contained a wide selection of music documentaries. Here are reviews of four of the most notable ones.
'Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill' is set to premiere at the 2022 DOC NYC festival, following the little-known but well-loved singer-songwriter.
