This is a completely biased festival report: I really like the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. Any film festival where I can 1) get in to see
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IDA Board member Marina Goldovskaya worked for more than twenty years for Central Russian Television. She has made 27 documentaries as director
"Bring your cowboy boots," the brochure urged, setting the tone for this highly unusual, six-day film festival held in September of this year. Part
The proportion of documentaries to fiction features is always small at the annual New York Film Festival. This year, the 35th event (September 26
October 29, 1997: In the blazing heat that late fall brings to Los Angeles, hundreds of construction workers are working feverishly to complete the $
Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards SCARY MAN (Vogelvrij) Albert Elings and Eugenie Jansen Hoarse from shouting and tired from chasing
If you go to only one assembly of academics yakking about documentaries, make it "Visible Evidence." This challenging itinerant conference—previously
Forty years ago, a forum to examine Black culture in America would likely have presented films made by White American Producers. In fact, a clip of
Documentary began, of course, before television. Before radio, even. And its adoption by American commercial broadcast television has always had an
Steven Spielberg is one of the world's most respected and successful filmmakers. He reached a professional peak in 1993-94 with Schindler's List