[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"festival-about-4844":3},{"festival":4,"years":19,"news":23,"about":24},{"entryId":5,"urlTitle":6,"status":7,"name":8,"originalName":9,"alsoKnownAs":10,"logo":11,"logoAppearance":12,"logoOg":17,"about":18,"isManaged":15},4844,"full-frame-documentary-film-festival-united-states-usa","open","Full Frame Documentary Film Festival","",[],"https:\u002F\u002Fimg.r.vurchel.com\u002Ffestivals\u002F_th600\u002Ffull-frame-documentary-film-festival-united-states-usa-gb531lxv.png?v=aa4d27c1",{"mode":13,"edge":14,"edgeLight":15,"plateLight":16,"plateDark":16,"crop":14,"og":14},"mono-light",null,false,"none","\u002Fimg\u002F_og\u002F71650.jpg?v=aa4d27c1","Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is devoted to showing nonfiction cinema on the big screen. Over four days each spring, it fills a few blocks of historic downtown Durham, North Carolina, with screenings from morning to midnight: more than 60 short and feature documentaries, followed by conversations with the filmmakers, plus panels and discussions. Selected films screen either in the competitive New Docs program or in the Invited Program. The festival is a program of Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, with Duke University as presenting sponsor. It is a qualifying event for the Academy Award for Documentary Short Film and for the Producers Guild of America Awards. Between editions, the Full Frame Road Show brings free documentary screenings to venues across the Triangle region. The 2027 edition takes place in person in Durham on 1–4 April 2027.",[20],{"year":21,"hasAwards":15,"hasSelection":22},"2022",true,[],{"aboutHtml":25,"countries":26,"focus":28,"categories":30,"nextDates":34,"awardsPrizes":35,"rules":36,"website":37,"contacts":38,"editDate":50},"\u003Cp>Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is devoted to showing nonfiction cinema on the big screen. Over four days each spring, it fills a few blocks of historic downtown Durham, North Carolina, with screenings from morning to midnight: more than 60 short and feature documentaries, followed by conversations with the filmmakers, plus panels and discussions. Selected films screen either in the competitive New Docs program or in the Invited Program.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The festival is a program of Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, with Duke University as presenting sponsor. It is a qualifying event for the Academy Award for Documentary Short Film and for the Producers Guild of America Awards. Between editions, the Full Frame Road Show brings free documentary screenings to venues across the Triangle region. The 2027 edition takes place in person in Durham on 1–4 April 2027.\u003C\u002Fp>",[27],"United States (USA)",[29],"Documentary",[29,31,32,33],"Feature","Short","Student","1 April 2027 — 4 April 2027","Full Frame presents juried and audience awards with cash prizes; in 2026 there were ten awards totalling $50,000. Only films in the New Docs program are eligible; films in the Invited Program are not.\n\nAwards include the Full Frame Grand Jury Award (with a possible Special Jury Award), the Full Frame Jury Award for Best Short, the Nancy Buirski Award for a feature built on archival material, the Tom Rankin Audience Awards for a feature and a short, the Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award, the Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award for a first-time feature documentary director, the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Award for a formally inventive short, the Full Frame President’s Award for the best student film, and the Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights for a film about a human rights issue in the United States.\n\nFull Frame is a qualifying festival for the Academy Award for Documentary Short Film and for the Producers Guild of America Awards.","Short and feature documentaries are eligible. For the 2027 edition, films must have been completed after 1 January 2026. Films of 40 minutes or less count as shorts, films of 41 minutes or more as features; works longer than 180 minutes are not accepted.\n\nEntries are submitted through the Duke University Box Office entry form, with a screening link (Vimeo preferred) provided at the time of submission. Entry fees apply; student films have a reduced fee, and a limited number of fee waivers is available on request.\n\nThere is no formal premiere requirement, but programmers take a film’s prior exposure into account, especially earlier screenings in North Carolina. Selected films screen in the New Docs program or the Invited Program; only New Docs films compete for awards. The 2027 festival is in person only, without an online showcase.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.fullframefest.org\u002F",[39,43,46],{"type":40,"value":41,"note":42},"Email","fullframeinfo@duke.edu","General information",{"type":40,"value":44,"note":45},"fullframesubmissions@duke.edu","Film submissions",{"type":47,"value":48,"note":49},"Address","1317 W Pettigrew St, Durham, NC 27705, USA","Festival office",1792028519]