All posts tagged "documentary"
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Interviews
(In)Visible Portraits Is a ‘Love Letter to Black Women and a Re-education for Everyone Else’
June 19, 2020The dedication for (In)Visible Portraits, the new documentary from Oge Egbuonu, calls it a “love letter to Black...
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Interviews
You Don’t Nomi Succeeds Where Showgirls Fails (Podcast)
June 12, 2020If you were being generous to Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven’s notorious 1995 bomb about a dancer named...
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Movie News
Ren & Stimpy Doc Makers Explain Why They Didn’t Tell a #MeToo Story
January 30, 2020The directors of Happy Happy Joy Joy, a Sundance documentary about the ’90s cartoon Ren &...
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Cinematography
Midnight Traveler: a Family’s Phones Document the Refugee Crisis
October 10, 2019Midnight Traveler, a new documentary from producers Emelie Coleman Mahdavian and Su Kim, uses one of...
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Directing
Kings of Beer Director Sean Mullin On Maintaining Artistic Integrity While Working on Branded Content
August 8, 2019Kings of Beer follows six of Budweiser’s top brewmasters. The diverse cast of characters and their...
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Directing
Zhuhai Caper: The Long Gone Wild Team Almost Landed in a Chinese Gulag While Filming Undercover
August 5, 2019You may remember Ric O’Barry from the Oscar-winning documentary, The Cove, in which he and a...
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Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
April 23, 2019“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a...
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Interviews
Was Lost, But Now It’s Found: Alan Elliott on Completing the 1972 Aretha Franklin Music Doc Amazing Grace
April 4, 2019Among the many disparate and overlapping interested parties—lovers of soul, lovers of concert documentaries, Sydney Pollack...
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Interviews
Mixed Media: Award-Winning Touch Me Not Explores Notions of Intimacy Through a Variety of Boundary-Pushing Methods
February 28, 2019Part documentary, part narrative feature, part research project, part autofiction, Romanian writer/director Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not rests...
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Moviemaking
Cakewalk: Bio-Doc Ottomaticake Pushed its Production Team to Discover Their Secret Recipe for Joyful Moviemaking
October 22, 2018Ottomaticake came about much like Otto’s cheesecake—an unexpected surprise beginning, followed by many challenges, capped off...
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Cinematography
Eye Piece: DP Shabier Kirchner Lensed Skate Kitchen on Wheels, But Didn’t Skate Through His Demanding Shoot
August 9, 2018As DP on Skate Kitchen—writer-director Crystal Moselle’s first narrative feature about an all-female skateboarding crew coming...
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Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
July 17, 2018The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the...
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Directing
Believer: Director Don Argott and Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds on Their Doc in Support of LGBTQ Youth
July 3, 2018Molded by his Mormon upbringing, Dan Reynolds, lead singer of the internationally renowned band Imagine Dragons,...
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Directing
True Crime, New Fiction: Form Follows Fiction’s Function in Bart Layton’s Hybrid Docudrama, American Animals
May 31, 2018American Animals is the true story of four students who get lost in a fantasy of...
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Book Reviews
The Ashtray: Errol Morris Reimagines Total World Philosophy in Overwhelming New Book
May 22, 2018New from Errol Morris, The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality) is the legendary writer-director’s...
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Movie News
True/False 2018: The Midwestern Doc Fest Returns to Test the Limits of Non-Fiction
May 14, 2018The heart of the Midwest beats in Columbia, Missouri, a charming college town where the land...
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Festivals
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2018: A Vital Community of Cinematic Truth-Seekers in the American South
May 9, 2018If the state of nonfiction storytelling today could be summarized in a single phrase, it would...
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Directing
“Time to Dream:” Find Inspiration in Daily Life with Apichatpong Weerasethakul in this New Doc
March 27, 2018Within the first minute of A.W.: A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a fiery crab emerges from...
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Directing
Going on Stream: How the Director of What Lies Upstream Managed His Rapidly Changing Shooting Schedule
January 15, 2018Filmmakers are excellent liars. Our greatest lie is how long we tell ourselves a film will...
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Directing
How to Make a Film Without Knowing How to Make a Film: Basic Tips From the Director of From the Ground Up
January 3, 2018Prior to producing, writing, and directing my documentary From The Ground Up, I had no background or...
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Directing
Fair Use In An Unfair World: 10 Ways to Not Get Sued From the Director of The Bill Murray Experience
December 14, 2017The world of a documentarian can be tough, draining and yes, even unfair. Fair use can...
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Directing
How They Did It: Erik Nelson’s Doc A Gray State Required a Descent into the Mind of Madness
November 20, 2017David Crowley was a 25-year-old filmmaker in Apple Valley, Minnesota, when he began filming a project...
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How They Did It
How They Did It: The Producer of Destination Unknown Spent Over a Decade Collecting Interviews With Holocaust Survivors
November 10, 2017Despite being clad in all-weather gear, I remained chilled to the bone on an early morning...
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Directing
Blaze of Glory: Viktor Jakovleski Used a Hi-Speed Slo-Mo Phantom Camera and Drones To Make Brimstone & Glory
October 27, 2017Film is first and foremost a visual medium, and when moviemakers accept and embrace this truth,...
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