Young filmmakers in Europe are receiving unofficial post-graduate degrees through working with documentary training programmes. By making films, they're continuing their education.
Documentaries can be great learning tools for students--and sometimes, their teachers. In a society where film is often the new "text," educators are harnessing docs in innovative ways.
Reel Canada creates film festivals celebrating the nation's cinema in high schools. Gligorijevic takes us behind the scenes of an educational programme with a difference.
“Once you really understand climate change, it would be ridiculous to work on anything else,” says Franny Armstrong, director of the new climate catastrophe documentary The Age of Stupid.
Philip Hoffman is one of Canada’s most important documentary filmmakers, full stop. To make this case, one only needs to look at the current ubiquity of ‘hybrid documentaries’ and the critical and ethical debates surrounding their emergence.
Crossmedia. Docmedia. Cyberdocs. New Media, Next Media, Now Media. 360 degree programming. Multiplatform. The documentary dictionary is expanding via Submarine.
The second part of a career-spanning interview with Peter Mettler discusses his early days as a cinematographer for such narrative filmmakers as Atom Egoyan and Patricia Rozema.