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Morgan Spurlock hits a home run with his new documentary, Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope.  Spurlock’s previous documentaries are: Super-Size Me, Greatest Movie Ever Sold, and the FX series 30 Days.  In all of these documentaries, Spurlock conducts different social experiments, always putting himself in front of the camera as the guinea pig.  With Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, he is not seen on camera but rather follows several different people as they attend the one, the only, San Diego Comic-Con.

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Tchoupitoulas (pronounced CHOP-it-TOO-luhs) is simply brilliant storytelling.  It’s something I have not seen done before, and it came across vibrantly original and engaging.  Brothers Bill and Turner Ross directed the documentary Tchoupitoulas, which is the name of a street in New Orleans, Louisiana.  This documentary has no real narrative or message, but rather an observance of the eccentricities and wildness of life in New Orleans. The film also won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Feature at the Dallas International Film Festival this year.

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Dave Grohl will be directing his first film which is titled ‘Sound City’.  The film will be a documentary about the famous Van Nuys studio where some of the biggest names in music have recorded their albums.  The film will have interviews with tons of musicians and producers who have recorded at ‘Sound City’ in its history.

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Let me start off by saying I am a huge Andrew Bird fan.  And if you do not know who Andrew Bird is, after seeing this amazing documentary by Xan Aranda, you will be hooked and consumed with both the artist and his music.  Fever Year is a compelling and fun documentary that follows Andrew Bird on his tour across the USA.  We get an in depth look at his performances on stage and behind closed doors as we see the singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist’s passion for music.

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Looking forward to this documentary about Bob Marley.  This is looking like it will be the ultimate documentary of the legend.  The film will be screened at SXSW this year which I plan to attend so I can fill you all in on how great it is.  The documentary was made by Kevin Macdonald who is a documentary filmmaker but switched to fiction and made ‘the award winning ‘Last King of Scotland’.

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The network with its amped up original programming department will explore the Costa Concordia accident, in which the luxury cruise liner carrying more than 4,200 passengers crashed into a rock off the western coast of Italy, killing 17 and injuring more than 60 others with 15 still unaccounted for.  The documentary is set to premiere Sunday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m., with an encore on Monday, Feb. 13, at 10 p.m.  The doc will be titled ‘Italian Cruise Ship Disaster: The Untold Stories’ and will showcase actual passenger footage, interviews with cast and crew, and CG renderings of what happened.

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The comic feature-length documentary EXPORTING RAYMOND, the story of how “Everybody Loves Raymond” creator Phil Rosenthal attempted to adapt his Emmy®-winning series for Russian TV, debuts THURSDAY, FEB. 16 (8:00-9:30 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.  When Phil Rosenthal was asked to help adapt “Everybody Loves Raymond” for Russian TV, he made eye-opening discoveries about the country’s viewers and their similarities to (and differences from) U.S. audiences.  EXPORTING RAYMOND recounts his often-hilarious 2009 trip to Russia, chronicling the casting process, the shooting of the show and meetings between Rosenthal and his Russian counterparts.

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Directors Guild of America President Taylor Hackford today announced the DGA’s nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries for the year 2011. “The remarkable documentaries made by this year’s nominees take audiences on a journey, whether casting light on injustice or exploring the human condition in all of its nuance, cruelty, creativity and triumph,” said Hackford. “Our nominees represent the best in documentary filmmaking and I congratulate each of them on a job well done.

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National Geographic Channel has teamed with Tony and Ridley Scott to produce a two-hour documentary based on ‘Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever’ by Bill O’ Reilly.  The documentary, set to begin production in the spring for an early 2013 premiere globally on the National Geographic Channel, will keep the fast pace of the book, described as a historical thriller with a John Grisham-style narrative about the 1865 murder of President Abraham Lincoln and the furious manhunt for his killer.

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On November 30th, HBO2 will release Pink Saris, a documentary about the life and fight of Sampat Pal and her gang of independent women. The award-winning Kim Longinotto directs this moving story.

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