Highlights of TIFF 2011 include docs by Jonathan Demme, Wim Wenders, Davis Guggenheim, Werner Herzog, Ron Fricke, Frederick Wiseman and Cameron Crowe.
Alongside almost 300 films screened at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) last November, the 12-day event offered an interactive alternative to the documentary form. According to artists and curators, digital storytelling is an unexpected and burgeoning breed that should not be considered the future of the genre.
Pink Ribbons, Inc. challenges us to ask harder questions, to be skeptical, rather than just say what’s the harm in raising money for breast cancer research?
Jennifer Baichwal’s latest documentary, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth is inspired by Margaret Atwood’s 2008 fascinating Massey Lecture and book of the same name.
"It was an anomaly for a documentary about art to do so well. But it proved that there is an audience for such a film," says Jennifer Biachwal on the success of Manufactured Landscapes.
Wim Wenders discusses his documentary Pina, working in 3D, and his long career spanning documentary, drama, and hybrids of the two forms.
Look to any bazaar or marketplace and you’ll find peddlers carefully jostling in hierarchical ways, where the louder, noisier and bigger characters get the lion’s share of attention.
It’s a well-worn critical cliché to say that a particular film is “as boring as watching paint dry." Does the Reel Artists Film Festival prove otherwise?
Isacsson’s compassionate and committed documentaries embrace issues concerning ecology, the homeless and aboriginal rights.
Contrary to anecdotal evidence, television and its linear schedule are not only not dead, but they’re actually not dead because of…the internet.