Short Film News (SFN) - Oscar-nominated Canadian documentary filmmaker, Harry Rasky, 78, died in a hospital in Toronto.
He was known for his documentary about great artists including Tennessee Williams, Marc Chagall, Arthur Miller, Leonard Cohen and etc.
Short Film News (SFN) - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) announced that the future of the Jan Vrijman Fund is uncertain, because the main financier of the Fund, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has withdrawn on the basis of a formal change in the application procedure.