The chopping sound of helicopter blades hovers over a black screen, feeling less like an entrance than a continuous perpetual drone, a cloud that does
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Like almost all of the subjects he has explored in his sublime, handcrafted works over six decades of filmmaking, Les Blank is a master of an art that
It all started with a lie. It was perpetuated in the post-9/11 cauldron, when, after the shock, devastation and grief, the conspiracy theories began
Helmrich's 'Position Among the Stars' is nominated for a Humanitas Documentary Award.
by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Alfred Hitchcock said, "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." As two filmmakers who take years to complete each
While most attention at this time of year is focused on the Academy Award nominees, they're not the only awards handed out that honor documentaries
"Before I met you," one Emmy-nominated, highly skilled documentary filmmaker said to me, "I thought a producer was just an accountant." Several years
This past December, former IDA Board Member Marina Goldovskaya received the 2005 Laurel Prize, the Lifetime Achievement Award for the Art of
From Ballets Russes Ballets Russes is the Follies of dance documentaries. Like that landmark musical, Ballets Russes begins with a reunion of the
David Sutherland's nonfiction series 'Country Boys' airs on PBS' 'Frontline.'