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Meaning in the Chaos of Reality: Director Liz Garbus on Gloria Vanderbilt Documentary Nothing Left Unsaid
Many of Liz Garbus’ documentaries—such as 2011’s Bobby Fischer Against the World and 2015’s What Happened,...
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Fur Example: Director Dominic Rodriguez Confronts His Own Furry Fandom in Fursonas
When I started working on the documentary feature Fursonas, I had no idea what I was...
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SXSW 2016: Why the Doc Best and Most Beautiful Things Took Six Years to Make, and Needed Every Minute of it
The beauty of DIY is that you get to dream the biggest dreams you can. The...
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Of Tacos and the City: In Laura Gabbert’s City of Gold, L.A. is Most Beautiful Through Jonathan Gold’s Eyes
Few other cities in modern times defy easy narrative as Los Angeles does. Intoxicating and infuriating...
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Song for My Father: Director David Holbrooke’s Portrait of His Diplomat Father
We were more than eight months into a nine-month edit and I still couldn’t get the...
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How They Did It: Editing Five Stories into One Startling, Concise Documentary, The Russian Woodpecker
I served as producer, director and editor for my feature documentary The Russian Woodpecker, but by...
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Walking and Talking: A Son Meets His Father Anew in Documentary Life in a Walk
Life in a Walk is football coach-turned-filmmaker Yogi Roth’s voyage to understand his personal hero—his father,...
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Selective Anonymity: How Documentary Poached Collected its Criminal Subjects
I will start out by saying that no laws were broken by the film crew in...
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Faking It: How Embellishing a Cage-Fight Sequence Brought Glena Closer to Truth
Glena, Allan Luebke’s directorial debut, follows 30-something single-mother-turned-cage-fighter Glena Avila, who entered the professional world of...
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“I Don’t Give Audiences Breathers:” More Conversation with Joshua Oppenheimer
In MovieMaker‘s Summer 2015 issue, critic Sam Adams interviewed Joshua Oppenheimer and offered a sage contemplation...
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A Cinema of Confrontation: With The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer Ekes Truth from Guilt and Denial
Over the years, many filmmakers have redefined documentary. Few, however, have composed a new vocabulary for...
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Love in Exile: a Cinematic Pilgrimage to Watch Tan Pin Pin’s Censored To Singapore, with Love
In September of 2014, filmmaker Tan Pin Pin found herself at the center of an intense...
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Family, Farming and Fostering Trust: Director Morgan Schmidt-Feng on Making On Her Own
On Her Own began as a project to satisfy my personal curiosity about farm life. Farming...
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The Meth Cooks of Michoacán: Venturing into the Dark in Cartel Land
Cartel Land is about vigilantes on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border who are combating a common...
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Love is a Losing Game: Asif Kapadia Navigates Guilt and Pain in Amy
Amy, the beautifully detailed and heartbreaking documentary about singer-songwriter Amy Jade Winehouse, who died four years...
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A Poem is a Naked Person: The Late Blooming of Les Blank’s Final Verse
On a naked corner in the American South, a young black girl boosts herself up on...
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Dancing with Death: How the Director of Huntington’s Dance Documented His Own Suicide Attempt
It takes a braver-than-usual moviemaker to chronicle how an incurable disease has ravaged generations of his...
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A One-Man Crew in Taliban Country: Brent Huffman is Saving Mes Aynak
Saving Mes Aynak is a film I believed in so deeply I repeatedly risked my life to...
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Story Seeking Teller: How Two Nurses Turned an Idea Into the Documentary The Milky Way
Two nurses walk into a bar… No, seriously, we did. And we really did conceive the...
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Exposing Two Decades of Fatal Negligence: An Interview with Nick Broomfield on Tales of the Grim Sleeper
Nick Broomfield’s new documentary, Tales of the Grim Sleeper, tells a shocking and lurid story. Lonnie...
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“We Got Everything that’s Out There:” Brett Morgen on Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
Brett Morgen’s intro at South by Southwest for his new film, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck,...
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On the Road With an Eighth-Grade Metal Band: Breaking a Monster Documents Unlocking the Truth
By now, you’ve probably heard of Unlocking the Truth, a heavy-metal band made up of three...
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Faking the Climax: A New Documentary Exposes the Air Sex Phenomenon
Air Sex: The Movie is a documentary about a live comedy show that has become a...
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Addictive Personalities: 20 Years of Madness Explores Friendship, Filmmaking and Mental Illness
“If there’s anything else in life that you can do and be happy with, go do...
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