Even as it gears up for the launch of the Sundance Film Festival Thursday, the Sundance Institute unveiled 13 titles it is making available through a variety of platforms through its "Artist Services" program. Films include 2012 Sundance Film Festival titles Detropia, I Am Not A Hipster, The Atomic States of America and We're Not Broke. Artist Services films are available on an array of online platforms including iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu, SnagFilms, Netflix, SundanceNOW, VUDU, YouTube and more.
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5 Broken Cameras won Outstanding Feature at the 6th annual Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking Wednesday night during a ceremony at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore accepted the prize for co-directors Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi whose film centers on Israeli settlements encroaching on Burnat's Palestinian village.
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Documentary nominees take the deserved spotlight with 2012 non-fiction nominations unveiled by organizers of the Cinema Eye Honors Friday at AFI Fest with The Imposter and Searching for Sugar Man each receiving five nominations.
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Critic faves Beasts of the Southern Wild and The House I Live In took top Grand Jury Prize honors tonight at the Sundance Film Festival, where the John Hawkes Oscar hopeful The Surrogate and Kirby Dick's The Invisible War nabbed this year's audience awards. Also earning Sundance 2012 kudos were the music doc Searching for Sugar Man, Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me, and the Aubrey Plaza starrer Safety Not Guaranteed.
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