“Back in 1976, when I brought Harlan County to the first festival here, it was a very different place,” says Barbara Kopple, whose new feature
Festivals
The year 2000 saw Toronto’s Hot Docs Film Festival truly come of age. The success of the screenings, coupled with an auspicious debut for the Toronto
The two events could not be more different. Visions du Réel was a small relaxed Swiss lakeside festival, showing a selection of some 100 documentary
The eleventh annual Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, in its sixth collaboration with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, took
In its third year, docfest, New York's annual international documentary festival, has truly come into its own. A whirligig of screenings, Q&A sessions
I was recently talking to a manager of a sparse office tucked away in the bowels of Silicon Valley. He wanted to go back to film school and make films
The Double Take Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina is bound to become a real filmmakers' favorite. One of the larger documentary fests in North
Go to any indie festival and it's not long before somebody starts talking about money. At the Visual Communications Film Fest 2000's Annual Los
Not only is the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival emerging as a hot venue on the festival circuit, but its slate of documentaries has captured the
Beads of sweat ran down the starving filmmaker's face. He held the crisp Anamorphic sub-master between his teeth as he struggled around the