atlas (noun): a bound collection of maps, sometimes with supplementary illustrations or graphic analyses; a volume of tables, charts or plates that systematically illustrates a particular subject. If one could take all of the features of an atlas and adapt them for the digital age, you'd end up with the new Discovery Channel series Discovery Atlas. The brainchild of Discovery Communications, Inc. founder and chairman John S. Hendricks, Atlas aims to create portraits of the great nations of the world, highlighting their people, places, culture and history in a variety of formats. The
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From Davis Guggenheim's An Inconvenient Truth IDA/ABC NEWS VIDEOSOURCE AWARD Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples TempleDirector/Producer/Executive Producer: Stanley NelsonExecutive Producer: Mark SamelsWriters: Noland Walker, Marcia SmithCinematographer: Michael ChinEditors: Lewis Erskine, Aliernon TunsilComposer: Tom PhillipsFirelight Media, Seventh Art Releasing, WGBH, PBS In the 1960s and '70s, Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of Peoples Temple, offered for some the perfect balance of spiritual fulfillment and political commitment. But in a 1977 magazine article, defectors and family
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IDA/ABCNews Videosource Award BhuttoDirector/Producer: Duane BaughmanDirector/Writer: Johnny O'HaraProducers: Mark Siegel, Arleen SorkinExecutive Producer: Glenn AveniCo-Producers: Pamela Green, Jarik Van Sluijs, Darius FisherCinematographers: Noel Donnellan, James Mulryan, David Ethan Sanders, Jens SchlosserEditor: Jessica HernándezComposers: Mader, Herb Graham Jr.Yellow Pad Productions in association with Icon TMI, First Run Features, ITVS Bhutto chronicles the life of one of the most complex and fascinating characters of our time: Benazir Bhutto. Hers is an epic tale of Shakespearean
The use of re-enactment in documentary is as old as the form itself, yet it remains persistently controversial, and there is nothing else that better illustrates the ontological knottiness of our relationship with the media. To label a film a "documentary" is in one sense to burden it with the responsibility of veracity. The movie in question is graced with an unsubtle aura of verisimilitude, and what we see and hear is taken to be, if not quite truth, then in truth's tortuous pursuit. The documentarian's challenge is thus not only one of communicating actuality through images and sound, but
And the winner is...'Angel's Fire (Fuego de Angel).'
And the winner is...'Have You Heard From Johannesburg.'