After a documentary premieres, what happens to the people that are its focus? SundanceNow Doc Club offers Toh! four exclusive videos that will bring you up to speed on the subjects of acclaimed docs "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry," "We're Not Broke," "Hot Coffee" and Oscar nominee "How to Survive a Plague," all of which contended for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in recent years. These director interviews are part of SundanceNow Doc Club's latest curation Fight the System, a slate of docs that dig into contemporary American issues and are now available to stream. "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" - Dir. Alison Klayman "Hot Coffee" - Dir. Susan Saladoff "How to Survive a Plague" - Dir. David France "We're Not Broke" - Dirs. Victoria Bruce, Karin Hayes...
- 11/12/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
HBO Documentary "Hot Coffee" is a mandatory must see film airing Monday June 27. Filmmaker Susan Saladoff carefully builds the case of how big business of every stripe, aided and abetted by the Gop war machine and the Chamber of Commerce lobbyists, have deconstructed consumers' rights and hamstrung those seeking redress in the courts for injury under the misleading rally cry of "frivolous lawsuits." The film shows how in Texas, where injury non-economic damages awarded to plaintiffs in medical malpractice lawsuit are at capped at $250,000, yet the costs to consumers in insurance premiums and malpractice insurance costs to doctors both have climbed up since the state took Draconian measures with Texas' infamous Prop 12 to curb payouts.
- 6/27/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
See the trailer, images and the poster for the Hot Coffee HBO documentary directed by Susan Saladoff. Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman put it on one of his Top Ten lists. More than 15 years later, the McDonald’s coffee case continues to be cited as a prime example of how citizens use “frivolous” lawsuits to take unfair advantage of America’s legal system. But is that an accurate portrayal of the facts? First-time filmmaker and former public interest lawyer Susan Saladoff uses the infamous legal battle that began with a spilled cup of coffee to investigate what’s behind America’s zeal for tort reform – which threatens to restrict the legal rights of everyday citizens and undermine the entire civil justice system.
- 6/23/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See the trailer, images and the poster for the Hot Coffee HBO documentary directed by Susan Saladoff. Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman put it on one of his Top Ten lists. More than 15 years later, the McDonald’s coffee case continues to be cited as a prime example of how citizens use “frivolous” lawsuits to take unfair advantage of America’s legal system. But is that an accurate portrayal of the facts? First-time filmmaker and former public interest lawyer Susan Saladoff uses the infamous legal battle that began with a spilled cup of coffee to investigate what’s behind America’s zeal for tort reform – which threatens to restrict the legal rights of everyday citizens and undermine the entire civil justice system.
- 6/23/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See the trailer, images and the poster for the Hot Coffee HBO documentary directed by Susan Saladoff. Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman put it on one of his Top Ten lists. More than 15 years later, the McDonald’s coffee case continues to be cited as a prime example of how citizens use “frivolous” lawsuits to take unfair advantage of America’s legal system. But is that an accurate portrayal of the facts? First-time filmmaker and former public interest lawyer Susan Saladoff uses the infamous legal battle that began with a spilled cup of coffee to investigate what’s behind America’s zeal for tort reform – which threatens to restrict the legal rights of everyday citizens and undermine the entire civil justice system.
- 6/23/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Check out the links below — and check back often — for our preview, reviews, blogs and more from the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival.
Preview
Fest Director Rebecca Yeldham LAFFs Out Loud
The independent film producer discusses the Los Angeles Film Festival’s successes, challenges and philosophy, with an eye to the future
Reviews
“Green Lantern”
Ryan Reynolds lacks the gravitas required for this role, and director Martin Campbell’s superior skills fail to save the superhero from an inane screenplay
“Hot Coffee”
Susan Saladoff’s documentary will knock you backward and change your perception of what you thought you knew
“The Salesman” (“Le Vendeur”)
The first feature from Canadian writer-director Sébastien Pilote is a thoughtful meditation on life, salesmanship and the clearance of snow
“The Future”
Miranda July confirms her distinctive voice with a sophomore film that crescendos from longing folk song to surrealist symphony
“Where Soldiers Come From” (documentary)
Quality...
Preview
Fest Director Rebecca Yeldham LAFFs Out Loud
The independent film producer discusses the Los Angeles Film Festival’s successes, challenges and philosophy, with an eye to the future
Reviews
“Green Lantern”
Ryan Reynolds lacks the gravitas required for this role, and director Martin Campbell’s superior skills fail to save the superhero from an inane screenplay
“Hot Coffee”
Susan Saladoff’s documentary will knock you backward and change your perception of what you thought you knew
“The Salesman” (“Le Vendeur”)
The first feature from Canadian writer-director Sébastien Pilote is a thoughtful meditation on life, salesmanship and the clearance of snow
“The Future”
Miranda July confirms her distinctive voice with a sophomore film that crescendos from longing folk song to surrealist symphony
“Where Soldiers Come From” (documentary)
Quality...
- 6/16/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Check out the links below — and check back often — for our preview, reviews, blogs and more from the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival.
Preview
Fest Director Rebecca Yeldham LAFFs Out Loud
The independent film producer discusses the Los Angeles Film Festival’s successes, challenges and philosophy, with an eye to the future
Reviews
“Green Lantern”
Ryan Reynolds lacks the gravitas required for this role, and director Martin Campbell’s superior skills fail to save the superhero from an inane screenplay
“Hot Coffee”
Susan Saladoff’s documentary will knock you backward and change your perception of what you thought you knew
“The Salesman” (“Le Vendeur”)
The first feature from Canadian writer-director Sébastien Pilote is a thoughtful meditation on life, salesmanship and the clearance of snow
“The Future”
Miranda July confirms her distinctive voice with a sophomore film that crescendos from longing folk song to surrealist symphony
“Where Soldiers Come From” (documentary)
Quality...
Preview
Fest Director Rebecca Yeldham LAFFs Out Loud
The independent film producer discusses the Los Angeles Film Festival’s successes, challenges and philosophy, with an eye to the future
Reviews
“Green Lantern”
Ryan Reynolds lacks the gravitas required for this role, and director Martin Campbell’s superior skills fail to save the superhero from an inane screenplay
“Hot Coffee”
Susan Saladoff’s documentary will knock you backward and change your perception of what you thought you knew
“The Salesman” (“Le Vendeur”)
The first feature from Canadian writer-director Sébastien Pilote is a thoughtful meditation on life, salesmanship and the clearance of snow
“The Future”
Miranda July confirms her distinctive voice with a sophomore film that crescendos from longing folk song to surrealist symphony
“Where Soldiers Come From” (documentary)
Quality...
- 6/16/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(from the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
Directed by: Susan Saladoff
Featuring: Jamie Leigh Jones, Connor Gourley, Colin Gourley, Al Franken and Oliver Diaz
Expertly edited by Cindy Lee with slick visuals by Brian Oakes, “Hot Coffee” is so good that it’s difficult to believe it was helmed by a first-time filmmaker. Executive producer Sheila Nevins and the HBO hierarchy usually have enough on their own production and development plates, but it’s no surprise that they picked up this provocative and potentially game-changing documentary; one would also not be surprised to see this film continue on its way into end-of-season awards discussions.
Like “GasLand,” “The Last Mountain” and “Inside Job,” “Hot Coffee” will knock you backward and change your perception of what you thought you knew. The film tackles the corporate demolition of this country’s civil rights system and the constitutional pretzel-twisting taking...
(from the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
Directed by: Susan Saladoff
Featuring: Jamie Leigh Jones, Connor Gourley, Colin Gourley, Al Franken and Oliver Diaz
Expertly edited by Cindy Lee with slick visuals by Brian Oakes, “Hot Coffee” is so good that it’s difficult to believe it was helmed by a first-time filmmaker. Executive producer Sheila Nevins and the HBO hierarchy usually have enough on their own production and development plates, but it’s no surprise that they picked up this provocative and potentially game-changing documentary; one would also not be surprised to see this film continue on its way into end-of-season awards discussions.
Like “GasLand,” “The Last Mountain” and “Inside Job,” “Hot Coffee” will knock you backward and change your perception of what you thought you knew. The film tackles the corporate demolition of this country’s civil rights system and the constitutional pretzel-twisting taking...
- 6/14/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(from the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
Directed by: Susan Saladoff
Featuring: Jamie Leigh Jones, Connor Gourley, Colin Gourley, Al Franken and Oliver Diaz
Expertly edited by Cindy Lee with slick visuals by Brian Oakes, “Hot Coffee” is so good that it’s difficult to believe it was helmed by a first-time filmmaker. Executive producer Sheila Nevins and the HBO hierarchy usually have enough on their own production and development plates, but it’s no surprise that they picked up this provocative and potentially game-changing documentary; one would also not be surprised to see this film continue on its way into end-of-season awards discussions.
Like “GasLand,” “The Last Mountain” and “Inside Job,” “Hot Coffee” will knock you backward and change your perception of what you thought you knew. The film tackles the corporate demolition of this country’s civil rights system and the constitutional pretzel-twisting taking...
(from the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
Directed by: Susan Saladoff
Featuring: Jamie Leigh Jones, Connor Gourley, Colin Gourley, Al Franken and Oliver Diaz
Expertly edited by Cindy Lee with slick visuals by Brian Oakes, “Hot Coffee” is so good that it’s difficult to believe it was helmed by a first-time filmmaker. Executive producer Sheila Nevins and the HBO hierarchy usually have enough on their own production and development plates, but it’s no surprise that they picked up this provocative and potentially game-changing documentary; one would also not be surprised to see this film continue on its way into end-of-season awards discussions.
Like “GasLand,” “The Last Mountain” and “Inside Job,” “Hot Coffee” will knock you backward and change your perception of what you thought you knew. The film tackles the corporate demolition of this country’s civil rights system and the constitutional pretzel-twisting taking...
- 6/14/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
The 2011 Seattle International Film Festival is on track to break $1 million in ticket sales and to tally over 80,000 submitted ballots. Not only is that an impressive feat by any festival’s statistics, but considering what else is on offer in the underrated capital of the Northwest, might almost be considered a miracle.
Yes, people know Seattle’s coffee history – Starbucks started as a roaster, and then a coffee shop by Pike Public Market selling beans and serving up coffee to the fisherfolk who needed some warming up. And people know Seattle as a port of call for Copper River salmon, Dungeness crab, and a first class purveyor of other fruit of the sea. But, for savvy festival-goers, including this first time Siff guest, the unique combination delivers a cinematic and culinary 1-2 punch that marks Siff as easily one of the best festival experiences in the country.
Ironically, and appropriately,...
Yes, people know Seattle’s coffee history – Starbucks started as a roaster, and then a coffee shop by Pike Public Market selling beans and serving up coffee to the fisherfolk who needed some warming up. And people know Seattle as a port of call for Copper River salmon, Dungeness crab, and a first class purveyor of other fruit of the sea. But, for savvy festival-goers, including this first time Siff guest, the unique combination delivers a cinematic and culinary 1-2 punch that marks Siff as easily one of the best festival experiences in the country.
Ironically, and appropriately,...
- 6/13/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
The 2011 Seattle International Film Festival is on track to break $1 million in ticket sales and to tally over 80,000 submitted ballots. Not only is that an impressive feat by any festival’s statistics, but considering what else is on offer in the underrated capital of the Northwest, might almost be considered a miracle.
Yes, people know Seattle’s coffee history – Starbucks started as a roaster, and then a coffee shop by Pike Public Market selling beans and serving up coffee to the fisherfolk who needed some warming up. And people know Seattle as a port of call for Copper River salmon, Dungeness crab, and a first class purveyor of other fruit of the sea. But, for savvy festival-goers, including this first time Siff guest, the unique combination delivers a cinematic and culinary 1-2 punch that marks Siff as easily one of the best festival experiences in the country.
Ironically, and appropriately,...
Yes, people know Seattle’s coffee history – Starbucks started as a roaster, and then a coffee shop by Pike Public Market selling beans and serving up coffee to the fisherfolk who needed some warming up. And people know Seattle as a port of call for Copper River salmon, Dungeness crab, and a first class purveyor of other fruit of the sea. But, for savvy festival-goers, including this first time Siff guest, the unique combination delivers a cinematic and culinary 1-2 punch that marks Siff as easily one of the best festival experiences in the country.
Ironically, and appropriately,...
- 6/13/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
“To Be Heard” and “Hot Coffee” win big at Seattle International Film Festival’s awards ceremony today at Seattle’s Space Needle.
See below for the full list of winners and runners-up:
Siff 2011 Competition Awards
Siff 2011 Best New Director
Grand Jury Prize
Gandu, directed by “Q” Kaushik Mukherjee (India, 2010)
Jury Statement: “We chose to give the prize to a movie that bowled us over with its kinetic, brash humor and style-hoping dexterity, a portrait of tortured youth that refreshingly pokes fun at adolescent self-centeredness while simultaneously exploring the anger, despondency and malaise of a generation.”
Siff 2011 Best Documentary
Grand Jury Prize
Hot Coffee, directed by Susan Saladoff (USA, 2011)
Jury Statement: “Going beyond a well-known headline that was the butt of many jokes, Hot Coffee makes dry legal boilerplate spring to life in portraying human dramas with tragic consequences. It makes us all question our simple assumptions – it’s a film that needs to be seen.
See below for the full list of winners and runners-up:
Siff 2011 Competition Awards
Siff 2011 Best New Director
Grand Jury Prize
Gandu, directed by “Q” Kaushik Mukherjee (India, 2010)
Jury Statement: “We chose to give the prize to a movie that bowled us over with its kinetic, brash humor and style-hoping dexterity, a portrait of tortured youth that refreshingly pokes fun at adolescent self-centeredness while simultaneously exploring the anger, despondency and malaise of a generation.”
Siff 2011 Best Documentary
Grand Jury Prize
Hot Coffee, directed by Susan Saladoff (USA, 2011)
Jury Statement: “Going beyond a well-known headline that was the butt of many jokes, Hot Coffee makes dry legal boilerplate spring to life in portraying human dramas with tragic consequences. It makes us all question our simple assumptions – it’s a film that needs to be seen.
- 6/12/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
“To Be Heard” and “Hot Coffee” win big at Seattle International Film Festival’s awards ceremony today at Seattle’s Space Needle.
See below for the full list of winners and runners-up:
Siff 2011 Competition Awards
Siff 2011 Best New Director
Grand Jury Prize
Gandu, directed by “Q” Kaushik Mukherjee (India, 2010)
Jury Statement: “We chose to give the prize to a movie that bowled us over with its kinetic, brash humor and style-hoping dexterity, a portrait of tortured youth that refreshingly pokes fun at adolescent self-centeredness while simultaneously exploring the anger, despondency and malaise of a generation.”
Siff 2011 Best Documentary
Grand Jury Prize
Hot Coffee, directed by Susan Saladoff (USA, 2011)
Jury Statement: “Going beyond a well-known headline that was the butt of many jokes, Hot Coffee makes dry legal boilerplate spring to life in portraying human dramas with tragic consequences. It makes us all question our simple assumptions – it’s a film that needs to be seen.
See below for the full list of winners and runners-up:
Siff 2011 Competition Awards
Siff 2011 Best New Director
Grand Jury Prize
Gandu, directed by “Q” Kaushik Mukherjee (India, 2010)
Jury Statement: “We chose to give the prize to a movie that bowled us over with its kinetic, brash humor and style-hoping dexterity, a portrait of tortured youth that refreshingly pokes fun at adolescent self-centeredness while simultaneously exploring the anger, despondency and malaise of a generation.”
Siff 2011 Best Documentary
Grand Jury Prize
Hot Coffee, directed by Susan Saladoff (USA, 2011)
Jury Statement: “Going beyond a well-known headline that was the butt of many jokes, Hot Coffee makes dry legal boilerplate spring to life in portraying human dramas with tragic consequences. It makes us all question our simple assumptions – it’s a film that needs to be seen.
- 6/12/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
The Seattle International Film Festival completed its 37th year with an awards ceremony at the Space Needle this morning, where it announced the Competition and Golden Space Needle Audience Awards. Top winners included “Q” Kaushik Mukherjee's "Gandu," from India, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Best New Director. The film premiered earlier this year at the Slamdance Film Festival. Susan Saladoff's Sundance entry "Hot Coffee" won the Grand Jury ...
- 6/12/2011
- Indiewire
Holding court downtown from June 16-26, 2011, the Los Angeles Film Festival comprehensively curates the cinematic landscape across a variety of media. Produced by Film Independent, the festival has continued to grow in recent years, and now boasts many of the best independent films of the year.
With the departure of the organization’s CEO, Dawn Hudson, to run the Academy, it will be interesting to see whether the festival’s director Rebecca Yeldham will stay on board past 2011. In the meantime, they’ve announced their line-up for the 2011 festival, and it includes some much buzzed about Sundance and SxSW titles (“Project Nim,” “The Future,” “Crime After Crime,” “The Salesman,” “Terri,” “Another Earth,” “The Guard,” “Natural Selection,” “Tyrannosaur,” “Where Soldiers Come From” and “Higher Ground,” to name a few), as well as 27 world, North American and U.S. premieres.
For the official list of competition and other films, as well as...
With the departure of the organization’s CEO, Dawn Hudson, to run the Academy, it will be interesting to see whether the festival’s director Rebecca Yeldham will stay on board past 2011. In the meantime, they’ve announced their line-up for the 2011 festival, and it includes some much buzzed about Sundance and SxSW titles (“Project Nim,” “The Future,” “Crime After Crime,” “The Salesman,” “Terri,” “Another Earth,” “The Guard,” “Natural Selection,” “Tyrannosaur,” “Where Soldiers Come From” and “Higher Ground,” to name a few), as well as 27 world, North American and U.S. premieres.
For the official list of competition and other films, as well as...
- 5/3/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Holding court downtown from June 16-26, 2011, the Los Angeles Film Festival comprehensively curates the cinematic landscape across a variety of media. Produced by Film Independent, the festival has continued to grow in recent years, and now boasts many of the best independent films of the year.
With the departure of the organization’s CEO, Dawn Hudson, to run the Academy, it will be interesting to see whether the festival’s director Rebecca Yeldham will stay on board past 2011. In the meantime, they’ve announced their line-up for the 2011 festival, and it includes some much buzzed about Sundance and SxSW titles (“Project Nim,” “The Future,” “Crime After Crime,” “The Salesman,” “Terri,” “Another Earth,” “The Guard,” “Natural Selection,” “Tyrannosaur,” “Where Soldiers Come From” and “Higher Ground,” to name a few), as well as 27 world, North American and U.S. premieres.
For the official list of competition and other films, as well as...
With the departure of the organization’s CEO, Dawn Hudson, to run the Academy, it will be interesting to see whether the festival’s director Rebecca Yeldham will stay on board past 2011. In the meantime, they’ve announced their line-up for the 2011 festival, and it includes some much buzzed about Sundance and SxSW titles (“Project Nim,” “The Future,” “Crime After Crime,” “The Salesman,” “Terri,” “Another Earth,” “The Guard,” “Natural Selection,” “Tyrannosaur,” “Where Soldiers Come From” and “Higher Ground,” to name a few), as well as 27 world, North American and U.S. premieres.
For the official list of competition and other films, as well as...
- 5/3/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Film Independent Announces First Round Of Us & International
Film Selections For 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival,
Presented By The Los Angeles Times - 19 Films Chosen for Narrative & Documentary Competition - - International Spotlight to Focus on Cuba -
Los Angeles (May 3, 2011) . Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times, announced the first round of official Us and international selections. The 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival is produced by Film Independent . the non-profit arts organization that also produces the Spirit Awards . and will screen over 200 feature films, shorts, and music videos, representing more than 30 countries. Opening and Closing Night films, Galas, Conversations, Artists in Residence, Lafca.s Films That Got Away, along with additional special guests and programming for the Festival Talks will be announced at later dates.
Returning to downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live, the Festival will run from Thursday, June 16 to Sunday,...
Film Selections For 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival,
Presented By The Los Angeles Times - 19 Films Chosen for Narrative & Documentary Competition - - International Spotlight to Focus on Cuba -
Los Angeles (May 3, 2011) . Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times, announced the first round of official Us and international selections. The 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival is produced by Film Independent . the non-profit arts organization that also produces the Spirit Awards . and will screen over 200 feature films, shorts, and music videos, representing more than 30 countries. Opening and Closing Night films, Galas, Conversations, Artists in Residence, Lafca.s Films That Got Away, along with additional special guests and programming for the Festival Talks will be announced at later dates.
Returning to downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live, the Festival will run from Thursday, June 16 to Sunday,...
- 5/3/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Independent Film Festival of Boston (IFFBoston) kicks off this Wednesday, and has a number of impressive films in its line-up. The festival will take place at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square, the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square, the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, and the Stuart Street Playhouse in downtown Boston. The festival, complete with over 110 film screenings, filmmaker Q&A sessions, panel discussions, visiting filmmakers, parties and events will showcase the best in current American and International cinema.
The opening night film of the festival is Being Elmo directed by Constance Marks will open the 9th annual festival on April 27th at the Somerville Theatre. This marks the first time the festival will open with a documentary. The film follows Kevin Clash, from humble upbringings as he follows his dream to become a puppeteer and one day work with his idol, Jim Henson, to the present day...
The opening night film of the festival is Being Elmo directed by Constance Marks will open the 9th annual festival on April 27th at the Somerville Theatre. This marks the first time the festival will open with a documentary. The film follows Kevin Clash, from humble upbringings as he follows his dream to become a puppeteer and one day work with his idol, Jim Henson, to the present day...
- 4/26/2011
- by Kristen Coates
- The Film Stage
The Independent Film Festival of Boston [1] recently released their full line-up and it's a doozy. Sundance favorites such as The Future [2] and Submarine [3] will be there, along with awesome documentaries like Being Elmo [4] (With Elmo In Attendance!!!) and Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times [5]. I'm looking forward to films I wasn't able to catch at Sundance and SXSW, such as the legal documentary Hot Coffee, the heartbreaking How to Die in Oregon, and the new fascinating Conan O'Brien film. Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins [6] also looks like it will rock the house. The full line-up is below. The festival is April 27th through May 4th, and it's one of my favorite movie events of the year. If you live anywhere in New England, I invite you to come and check it out. You can follow IFFBoston on Facebook for updates [7] or buy your passes now [8]! Narrative Features 13 Assassins...
- 3/25/2011
- by David Chen
- Slash Film
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: A number of documentary films that made splashes at this year’s Sundance and South By Southwest film festivals have been added to the schedule for the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. A total of 66 selections have been selected for the festival’s New Docs program, which consists of of 43 feature films and 23 shorts from all over the world. This year’s Full Frame fest will be held April 14-17, in Durham, N.C.
“Each year, over a thousand filmmakers give us the opportunity to review their work, and it’s extremely rewarding to curate a selection of titles that represent a wide breadth of the documentary form,” said director of programming, Sadie Tillery.
Specific screening times and venues will be announced with the overall schedule on March 24. Here are the 66 films being screened so far.
New Docs
Angst (Director: Graça Castanheira)
Portuguese filmmaker...
Hollywoodnews.com: A number of documentary films that made splashes at this year’s Sundance and South By Southwest film festivals have been added to the schedule for the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. A total of 66 selections have been selected for the festival’s New Docs program, which consists of of 43 feature films and 23 shorts from all over the world. This year’s Full Frame fest will be held April 14-17, in Durham, N.C.
“Each year, over a thousand filmmakers give us the opportunity to review their work, and it’s extremely rewarding to curate a selection of titles that represent a wide breadth of the documentary form,” said director of programming, Sadie Tillery.
Specific screening times and venues will be announced with the overall schedule on March 24. Here are the 66 films being screened so far.
New Docs
Angst (Director: Graça Castanheira)
Portuguese filmmaker...
- 3/17/2011
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
Even though Sundance is over, the acquisition deals flying from films that screened at the fest are still taking place according to Risky Biz Blog.
Oprah Winfrey's cable channel Own has picked up rights to Yoav Potash's competition documentary "Crime After Crime", while HBO is closing a deal to pick up Susan Saladoff's documentary "Hot Coffee". Both films explore the American justice system.
Oscilloscope Laboratories has scored the English-language rights to Evan Glodell’s "Bellflower" and the indie distributor is planning a limited release this Summer.
Finally, Pretty Pictures has acquired all French rights to Andrew Rossi's documentary "Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times" and will release it in the Fall.
Oprah Winfrey's cable channel Own has picked up rights to Yoav Potash's competition documentary "Crime After Crime", while HBO is closing a deal to pick up Susan Saladoff's documentary "Hot Coffee". Both films explore the American justice system.
Oscilloscope Laboratories has scored the English-language rights to Evan Glodell’s "Bellflower" and the indie distributor is planning a limited release this Summer.
Finally, Pretty Pictures has acquired all French rights to Andrew Rossi's documentary "Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times" and will release it in the Fall.
- 2/1/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Rating: 2.5/5
Director: Susan Saladoff
Hot Coffee’s Sundance buzz benefited from the film being (ostensibly) about the famous case of Stella Liebeck, the Albuquerque woman who sued McDonald’s after a cup of their searing hot coffee injured her. The case was wildly maligned, and Liebeck and her case were frequently made fun of in pop culture, to the point that even Seinfeld did an episode about it. But Susan Saladoff’s debut film is much less about the hot coffee case than its slick title would suggest.
Read more on Sundance 2011 Review: Hot Coffee…...
Director: Susan Saladoff
Hot Coffee’s Sundance buzz benefited from the film being (ostensibly) about the famous case of Stella Liebeck, the Albuquerque woman who sued McDonald’s after a cup of their searing hot coffee injured her. The case was wildly maligned, and Liebeck and her case were frequently made fun of in pop culture, to the point that even Seinfeld did an episode about it. But Susan Saladoff’s debut film is much less about the hot coffee case than its slick title would suggest.
Read more on Sundance 2011 Review: Hot Coffee…...
- 2/1/2011
- by Kate Erbland
- GordonandtheWhale
Exclusive: HBO has closed a deal for Hot Coffee, the Susan Saladoff-directed competition documentary which focuses on how corporations have used the memory of outlandish legal verdicts as a way to press for tort reforms and avoid jury trials through arbitration on cases that actually have merit. HBO's Sheila Nevins viewed the documentary after it premiered last Monday. I'm told the deal was mid to high six-figures. HBO licensed the film for broadcast and VOD for 2 years, and will afford the film a qualifying Oscar theatrical run before it airs on the pay channel. Preferred Content's Kevin Iwashina brokered the sale. Carly Hugo and Alan Oxman produced with Saladoff. The film's title refers to the famous case of a woman"s million dollar judgment from McDonald's over a spilled cup of coffee. Saladin, a lawyer, focuses on other outrageous cases that illustrated where corporations were negligent or unresponsive.
- 1/29/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews, Sundance Film Festival, Cinematical
We all remember the case of the woman who sued McDonalds after spilling hot coffee on her lap, right? Not only was it the focus of a classic 'Seinfeld' episode, but that one case ignited a fire storm across the country because of just how insane it sounded. Who doesn't know that coffee is hot, and, seriously, how hurt could you really get from spilling some hot coffee in your lap?
Well that answer, along with several others, make up only a fraction of the electrifying new documentary 'Hot Coffee,' which marks the first film from former trial attorney Susan Saladoff. 'Hot Coffee' begins by telling the real story behind that "hot coffee incident" before exposing a few other cases featuring people who were screwed over by the court system because of either Tort reform, caps on damages,...
We all remember the case of the woman who sued McDonalds after spilling hot coffee on her lap, right? Not only was it the focus of a classic 'Seinfeld' episode, but that one case ignited a fire storm across the country because of just how insane it sounded. Who doesn't know that coffee is hot, and, seriously, how hurt could you really get from spilling some hot coffee in your lap?
Well that answer, along with several others, make up only a fraction of the electrifying new documentary 'Hot Coffee,' which marks the first film from former trial attorney Susan Saladoff. 'Hot Coffee' begins by telling the real story behind that "hot coffee incident" before exposing a few other cases featuring people who were screwed over by the court system because of either Tort reform, caps on damages,...
- 1/29/2011
- by Erik Davis
- Moviefone
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews, Sundance Film Festival, Cinematical
We all remember the case of the woman who sued McDonalds after spilling hot coffee on her lap, right? Not only was it the focus of a classic 'Seinfeld' episode, but that one case ignited a fire storm across the country because of just how insane it sounded. Who doesn't know that coffee is hot, and, seriously, how hurt could you really get from spilling some hot coffee in your lap?
Well that answer, along with several others, make up only a fraction of the electrifying new documentary 'Hot Coffee,' which marks the first film from former trial attorney Susan Saladoff. 'Hot Coffee' begins by telling the real story behind that "hot coffee incident" before exposing a few other cases featuring people who were screwed over by the court system because of either Tort reform, caps on damages,...
We all remember the case of the woman who sued McDonalds after spilling hot coffee on her lap, right? Not only was it the focus of a classic 'Seinfeld' episode, but that one case ignited a fire storm across the country because of just how insane it sounded. Who doesn't know that coffee is hot, and, seriously, how hurt could you really get from spilling some hot coffee in your lap?
Well that answer, along with several others, make up only a fraction of the electrifying new documentary 'Hot Coffee,' which marks the first film from former trial attorney Susan Saladoff. 'Hot Coffee' begins by telling the real story behind that "hot coffee incident" before exposing a few other cases featuring people who were screwed over by the court system because of either Tort reform, caps on damages,...
- 1/29/2011
- by Erik Davis
- Cinematical
No political season is complete without politicians taking up the case of tort reform. Greedy litigants are blamed for everything from clogging up our justice system to running up our medical bills as tort reform advocates take advantage of the fact that everyone hates a lawyer until they need one.
With so much misinformation out there, what’s a lawyer to do? Well, if you’re Susan Saladoff, longtime lawyer, first-time filmmaker, you pick up a camera. Using the infamous “McDonald’s coffee case” as her prime example, her debut feature, Hot Coffee, investigates how and why corporations spend millions of dollars drumming up support for tort reform — and how the media completely mishandles the story.
I recently spoke to Saladoff, a passionate and ardent advocate of our civil justice system, about her film and its upcoming Sundance debut.
Filmmaker: Which came first for you, this topic or the idea of making a film?...
With so much misinformation out there, what’s a lawyer to do? Well, if you’re Susan Saladoff, longtime lawyer, first-time filmmaker, you pick up a camera. Using the infamous “McDonald’s coffee case” as her prime example, her debut feature, Hot Coffee, investigates how and why corporations spend millions of dollars drumming up support for tort reform — and how the media completely mishandles the story.
I recently spoke to Saladoff, a passionate and ardent advocate of our civil justice system, about her film and its upcoming Sundance debut.
Filmmaker: Which came first for you, this topic or the idea of making a film?...
- 1/19/2011
- by Mary Anderson Casavant
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Sundance Film Festival 2011 filmmakers in the event's U.S. Documentary Competition, World Cinema Documentary Competition and Next sections are the highlights for Wednesday in indieWIRE's ongoing series profiling this year's crop of filmmakers. Two from the U.S. Doc competition, Andrew Rossi's "Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times" and "Hot Coffee" by Susan Saladoff as well as Oscar-winner James Marsh's "Project Nim" (World Doc competition) and Andrew Dosunmu's ...
- 1/12/2011
- Indiewire
Sundance Film Festival 2011 filmmakers in the event's U.S. Documentary Competition, World Cinema Documentary Competition and Next sections are the highlights for Wednesday in indieWIRE's ongoing series profiling this year's crop of filmmakers. Two from the U.S. Doc competition, Andrew Rossi's "Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times" and "Hot Coffee" by Susan Saladoff as well as Oscar-winner James Marsh's "Project Nim" (World Doc competition) and Andrew Dosunmu's ...
- 1/12/2011
- indieWIRE - People
For many Americans, the famous McDonald’s coffee case has become emblematic of the frivolous lawsuits that clog our courts and stall our justice system. Or is that exactly what McDonald’s wants us to think? Enter intrepid filmmaker Susan Saladoff. Using the now-infamous legal battle over a spilled cup of coffee as a springboard into investigating our civil-justice system, Saladoff exposes the way corporations have spent millions distorting this case to ...
- 1/12/2011
- Indiewire
For many Americans, the famous McDonald’s coffee case has become emblematic of the frivolous lawsuits that clog our courts and stall our justice system. Or is that exactly what McDonald’s wants us to think? Enter intrepid filmmaker Susan Saladoff. Using the now-infamous legal battle over a spilled cup of coffee as a springboard into investigating our civil-justice system, Saladoff exposes the way corporations have spent millions distorting this case to ...
- 1/12/2011
- indieWIRE - People
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