🎬 🚨 The Official Nah Nevermind Podcast Full Frame Film Festival Recap 🎬
What an experience.
Thank you to the @fullframefest for welcoming us and allowing us to be part of such an incredible event—especially for our very first time attending.
This was bigger than just showing up… it was about learning, building, connecting, and being inspired. We met some amazing filmmakers, creatives, storytellers, and visionaries who are truly shaping culture through their craft. Thank you again. This was our first… but definitely not our last.
🎥: @longlivefilms
#FullFrame #DurhamNC #BullCity #CreativeCulture #NahNevermindPodcast
It’s hard to say who looked more excited at Pass Pickup, Festival Co-Director Sadie Tillery or the Full Frame Fellows from Spelman College!
Full Frame Fellows enjoy a unique festival experience including Master Classes with leading filmmakers in addition to numerous film screenings. 🎥
If you were a Full Frame Fellow this year, tell us your favorite thing about the experience!
📸 Sage Battle, @sageiology
Thanks to Duke Student Affairs for its myriad support leading up to and during the festival—including developing our digital tickets in 2026 and staffing our new help desk. And thanks (as always) to our colleagues in the Duke University Box Office and Venue & Production Management for the time and care they take to ensure our attendees have the smoothest possible festival experience!
📸 @alex_mousan@kaylintsukayama
How many times did you see this year’s trailer? Tell us in the comments! (We’re genuinely curious!)
The 2026 trailer was created by Horizon Productions and tells the story of the role sponsors play in building the festival. We love the flickering golden dust and the blocks’ warm glow, and the sound design is pretty magical.
Thank you, @_horizonvp !
Creating a space where people can gather in shared support of the arts is our passion. We’re so thankful for the A.J. Fletcher Foundation’s multi-year commitment to Full Frame, which makes it possible to bring these spaces into being each spring.
📸 @kaylintsukayama@rcjessen
The Full Frame Fellows program invites college students from across the region to partake in all the festival has to offer. Plus, they enjoy a very special perk—Master Classes with leading documentary filmmakers. Director Sam Green, whose film THE OLDEST PERSON IN THE WORLD was Full Frame’s 2026 Opening Night Film, led one of this year’s sessions.
Learn more about the program under the “Education” tab at fullframefest.org!
We’d like to thank our long-time sponsor @saladeliacafe + @madhatterdurham for nourishing our Fellows and staff (and keeping our patrons caffeinated!) throughout the festival. 🥪 🍪 ☕️
Full Frame’s Friday night Filmmaker Party invites documentarians to gather, mingle, and get excited for the weekend. It is so much fun to see filmmakers and film participants make connections (or reconnect with old friends) at this annual event!
This year’s Filmmaker Party was sponsored by Anamorph. @anamorph.inc
📸 @sageiology
Full Frame’s Speakeasy Conversation series takes place at The Durham Hotel on Friday and Saturday of every festival. The Durham Hotel feels like the city’s living room, making it the perfect place for this informal series that’s free and open to the public.
Jameka Autry, who produced TIME AND WATER, and Amir Bar-Lev, the director of THE LAST FIRST: WINTER K2, teamed up to host one of the four Speakeasies, “Filmmaker vs Filmmaker: Only One Shall Survive.” Contrary to the title, the conversation focused on supporting one another and cultivating power in the documentary community.
📸 @kaylintsukayama
Thanks to The Durham Hotel for its sponsorship!
How amazing is it that the entirety of Full Frame takes place across just a couple city blocks?
There is a lot to see and experience at Full Frame, and we’re grateful for the sponsorship of the Durham Marriott City Center, which puts our guests in the middle of the festival action.
📸 @kaylintsukayama
Full Frame's volunteers make our festival possible by contributing their time and diverse talents. They manage venues, distribute passes, scan tickets, capture photo and video, and set up and break down every part of the festival landscape, among many other jobs. If you spot a gold-colored Full Frame shirt around Durham in the coming year, give the person wearing it a high five and a "thank you"— we couldn't have a festival without our volunteers!
We are thankful for The Forest at Duke’s sponsorship of our Volunteer Team.
📸 Sage Battle, @sageiology
@americandoctorfilm at @fullframefest Last weekend, American Doctor received two awards at the Full Frame Film Festival!
The film received the Tom Rankin Audience Award and an honorable mention for the Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights. Congrats to the entire American Doctor team and a big thank you to the audiences at Full Frame.
And I’d like to add a special personal thank you to the Full Frame Film Festival - a festival that is near and dear to my heart. The many years I have attended, the films I have seen, and the people I have met along the way, have been formative for me in my career as an editor. Thank you.
Shout out to the #editors
#americandoctorfilm #fullframefilmfestival #documentary #documentaryfilm
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Our free Closing Night Film in 2026 was I WAS BORN THIS WAY, by Sam Pollard and Daniel Junge. The directors joined Festival Co-Director and Artistic Director Sadie Tillery for a post-screening conversation about the film. It was lovely to end the 2026 festival with a message about creating positive change.
📸 Alex Mousan
