Filmmakers on a stage in front of a row of microphones
Still image from SUGARCANE with Full Frame award laurels

SUGARCANE Gets Oscar® Nomination for Best Documentary Feature

The 2024 festival favorite won the CDS Filmmaker Award; Full Frame National Advisory Board Member RaMell Ross receives two nominations, including Best Picture, for NICKEL BOYS

Full Frame’s Winter Road Show Brings Three Oscar®-Shortlisted Films to The Cary Theater

Screenings of DAUGHTERS, UNION, and HOLLYWOODGATE will be free and open to the public.

A still from the documentary film JULIA's STEPPING STONES

JULIA’S STEPPING STONES Now on Netflix

JULIA’S STEPPING STONES recounts the path Julia Reichert took to becoming a filmmaker: her upbringing and education, the joy she found working in radio, and her interest in working people and the women’s movement, which led to the making of her first film, Growing Up Female.

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The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is a program of Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies