"Truth is the first casualty of war," the old adage says. And in the case of the war in Iraq it is alarmingly accurate. Documentarians have stepped in
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Docuphiles know and love the elegant British director Michael Apted for his " Up" series, the ground-breaking British documentary project that, for 40
FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES Born into Brothels Directors/Producers/Cinematographers: Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman Editors: NancyBaker, Ross Kauffman Composer
She is young, pretty, petite. She faces a hostile group of men who claim the Koran decrees that women should cover their faces, and dares to tell them
"My name is Alanis Obomsawin. I am an Abenaki woman from Odenak, Québec," she proclaims. Her life reads like a storybook legend. She was born on
Shoestring budgets, borrowed equipment, deferred pay, intermittent and interminable production schedules—these have become the required ingredients in
The IDA Awards were created in 1984, as part of our organization's intense desire to improve the recognition of documentaries and the filmmakers who
With the roll-out of one political doc after another this fall, it's easy to forget that documentarians can start out in art school as well as
The 26th Independent Feature Project's (IFP) Film Market, held in New York in September, aimed to "bring together the business and creative
There are few places where a first-time filmmaker can receive the same warm welcome as, say, Richard Leacock, a pioneer of cinema vérité. There are