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
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As primetime television continues to phase out scripted fare in favor of more inexpensively produced "reality" programming, and as documentaries
On Monday, November 16, filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña will be in conversation with Turner Classic Movies' Ben Mankiewicz to discuss her decades-long
'Secrets of the Tribe' airs March 2 on HBO.
Assignment: Write an article on whether or not documentary filmmakers should pay their subjects. Dilemma: What's to discuss? Conventional wisdom in
What is the place of the documentary journalism within the relentless crush of the 24-hour news cycle? Are there differences in methodology between
F Is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing Editors: Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner University of Minnesota Press, 2006 244 pages This is
Any filmmaker who sets out to make a documentary faces multiple challenges, not the least of which is a set of ethical issues inherent in the process
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival officially ushered in the John Cooper-Trevor Groth Era, with proclamations of "renewed rebellion," "rebirth," a