We are told that 100 years ago, when our grandparents first saw the films of the Lumiere brothers, they were astounded and came in droves to see more
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The first American women to make documentary films back in the 1910s and '20s, Osa Johnson and Frances Hubbard Flaherty, worked mainly as silent
P.O.V. co-executive producer Ellen Schneider calls them "drama[s] that no screenwriter could fabricate." Critic and scholar Pat Aufderheide sees them
Hundreds of documentarians from around the world are expected to convene in Los Angeles for the Second International Documentary Congress in October
Editor's note: In November 1994, San Francisco filmmaker Lisanne Skyler achieved the dream of many independent documentarians when she was informed
For film and video documentarians, what's the best-kept secret film festival in America? Here's my candidate: the Vermont International Film Festival
Last November in Philadelphia, historians of what used to be called the Soviet Union gathered to share ideas and compare experiences on a theme of
After forming its New Technologies Council in 1994, Women in Film held a series of seminars in Los Angeles to showcase some of the opportunities for
A little-known chapter in documentary history is that of Japan's pre-World War II proletarian film movement. The organization at the core of this
Documentaries at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, which was held February 9-20, were most in evidence at the International Forum of