The National Film Board of Canada, a unique cultural organization, was established by an Act of the Canadian Parliament on May 2, 1939. John Grierson
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EDITOR'S NOTE: In 1976, having just become editor of The Journal of the University Film and Video Association , I felt privileged that my second issue
It's an intriguing scenario: a naturalist, talented in still photography, wants to do a 35mm motion picture in the wilds of Africa, concentrating on
In 1986, Mark Soosaar founded the International Visual Anthropology Festival (IVA) in Pärnu, an Estonian resort. Many believed this development merely
At least two of the films screened at the recent San Francisco International Film Festival—Round Eyes In the Middle Kingdom and Personal Belongings
Documentaries always turn up on Chicago's roster of diverse festivals devoted to children, women, seniors, lesbians and gays, Latinos, African
The 19th annual INPUT conference did not begin promisingly. You arrived at the ultraplush Continental Plaza (replete with heat-seeking air
There is a powerful scene near the end of Frederick Wiseman's new film on France's 330-year-old Comedie Française that the audience has been waiting
The IDA will bestow its 1996 Preservation and Scholarship Award to the National Film Board of Canada for its significant archival and preservation
For 18 years, Cinema du Réel, the international festival of ethnographic and sociological films, has been revealing the world in all its diversity