14 Feature-length Documentaries Supported The Sundance Institute Documentary Fund recently announced its first round of grants for 2006 with 14 feature-length documentary films receiving a total of $605,000. Dedicated to supporting U.S. and international documentary films that focus on current human rights issues, freedom of expression, social justice, civil liberties, and explori…

  Winning Proposals Will Screen in India and UK In celebration of India's 60th anniversary of independence, a competition will honour the best three-minute documentaries on Indian independence. Broadcast journalists in India have until August 21 to submit their proposals. The awards ceremony will coincide with the Open Frame Reality Film Festival and Documentary Business Skills…

  Metropolitan Police Service Will Carry Out a Full Investigation The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has voiced concerns over the controversial BBC documentary ‘The Boys Who Killed Stephen Lawrence' which was screened on BBC 1 last night and confirmed that The Metropolitan Police will face a corruption probe.

One of the most exciting things I spotted in the bursting inaugaural programme for the Brit Doc film festival - which runs next weekend - is a networking event where 20 filmmakers are introduced to charities and campaigners who have issues which need highlighting. Supported by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, the event will use speed dating to link doc shooters with stories in the UK…

From BoingBoing - Award-winning photojournalist Martin Adler was killed in Mogadishu this week while filming a political demonstration for Channel 4 News. He was shot at close range by a single, hooded gunman. Mr. Adler often covered conflict zones alone, filling the multiple roles roles of writer, cameraman, producer, and correspondent. Link to Photo District News story, here'…

  Spanish television has previewed a formerly unseen documentary about its civil war made by the reknowned American writer Ernest Hemingway. The film, Tierra de Espana (Spanish Earth), contains footage of the civil war, which Hemingway covered as a war correspondent. Hemingway narrates the film which recalls the fighting between the rebel army of General Francisco Franco and the re…

  By tightening the rules of eligibility for Best Documentary, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has managed to rile many of those who make them. Film Stew gives us the full picture on why documentary filmakers are angry about Academy rules.

  A documentary made by Rageh Omaar about the July 7 London bombings for ITV1 has won the top prize at a religious awards ceremony in London. The Granada documentary, 7/7: A Test of Faith, beat Channel 4's Priest Idol, which was runner-up, and BBC2's The Monastery, given a merit prize at the Sandford St Martin Trust Religious Television Awards.

  The power and impact of British feature documentaries is celebrated at a new festival, BRITDOC 06, an annual showcase and meeting of the best documentary talent from Britain and around the world.

  Following the enormous international success of the BBC/ bfi collaboration on The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon, the BBC and the bfi are launching a new co-production, this time following in the footsteps of British pioneer colour cinematographer Claude Friese-Greene.

A British court inquest has ruled that Devonshire cameraman, James Miller, was unlawfully shot by an Israeli soldier while making a documentary on Palestinian children in 2003.