Journalist, memoir writer, documentary filmmaker, actor. At the age of 32, Nelofer Pazira has accomplished much behind, and in front of, the camera. Judith Doyle looks at the woman behind the accomplishments.
On a warm New York night in the early ’90s, I was walking to a party hosted by the Independent Feature Project on lower Broadway, when I came across two very animated, brightly dressed, vociferous women—one a fiery redhead, the other a dynamic blonde. They claimed to be from the Netherlands and to my tin ear they
FOR SOME YEARS NOW, there’s been a battle going on in the back of filmmaker Magnus Isacsson’s head. “But it wasn’t until I saw an article in the Manchester Guardian Weekly, comparing our society with the visions of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, that I realized it could be an idea for a film.” An avid reader
He tells me his dreams, sometimes, when I run into him, which is more often than not these days. It seems we are intersecting, like it or not, ready or not, but I can’t remember the dreams. They are so fine, so perfect, I remember thinking each time he tells me that they should be
Palestinian born and Dutch educated director Hany Abu-Assad makes political films, whether they're docs or dramas. He talks candidly to POV's editor about his films, philosophy and choices for IDFA's Carte Blanche programme.
Visible Evidence revealed a tendency among documentary filmmakers to embrace new technologies in the dissemination of their films and the vital discourse surrounding them.
Since its inception, the Rencontres has been more than a film festival; it’s also been a central command for lobbying and debating issues in documentary film.
Award-winning doc filmmaker Marc Levin and legendary graphic novelist Will Eisner individually took on the notorious anti-Semitic fraud The Protocols of Zion in the past year.
