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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

Many people ask, and rightly so: Of what use it is to spend the money and time schmoozing at festivals and markets? Whether one has a clearly defined

"Hey, did you hear that Martin Scorsese is making a film in Toronto?" "No, what is it?" "It's called Clean Streets." That's an appropriate joke for

Those of us who love the nonfiction film and have seen many of the documentaries released each year are often surprised by the choices made by the

Eternity. One day this single word mysteriously appeared on the sidewalks of Sydney, Australia, chalked in beautiful copperplate script. For 40 years

This October, Turner Broadcasting climaxes a company-wide initiative fo­cusing on Native Americans with a com­prehensive documentary presentation, The

When Ken Burns' monumental doc­umentary miniseries The Civil War aired on PBS in 1990, no one anticipated the mas­sive popularity and unanimous

Some of the most significant revolutions in the history of film and video have been sparked by the appearance of small and inexpensive camera—new

There's a sense in which PC­ based editing systems represent a most unrevolutionary revolution. It's taken years of sophisticated science, trickling

The mutable, enigmatic nature of documentary films was never more apparent than at the Robert Flaherty Soviet American Seminar, held in Riga, Latvia