Documentary Filmmaking

What if the Great American Novelist Doesn’t Write Novels? - The New York Times

D.A. Pennebaker, Pioneer of Cinéma Vérité in America, Dies at 94 - The New York Times

Have documentaries become propaganda in the age of Donald Trump and Fake News?

True or False – Point of View Magazine

We cannot allow identity politics to stifle great filmmaking

2019 Oscar-nominated “The Edge of Democracy” filmmaker Petra Costa and Switzerland’s Visions du Réel Film Festival weren’t going to let a global pandemic stop them from hosting a highly anticipated…

Delta State University will receive the 2020 Elbert R. Hilliard Oral History Award from the Mississippi Historical Society for an in-progress “DSU Sit-In Documentary” that examines a 1969 demonstration...

What if you could pull your long-forgotten memories from the hazy past and hold them again in your hands? Three adults are asked to play a childhood game and remember their early dreams and desires. As they step into the past, they look again at their hopes for the future.

Dharamshala International Film Festival 2019 screened Kazuhiro Sodas 2018 documentary Inland Sea, and also had a masterclass by the documentary filmmaker.

Alexander Nanau, the director of acclaimed Romanian documentary “Collective,” has rejected a medal from the country’s president and slammed the government for failing the cultural sector during the…

Documentary and docuseries creators have found themselves amidst a rapidly expanding market for their work. During the FYC Fest documentary roundtable, Variety’s Matt Donnelley discussed the …

German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger has been making films for nearly 50 years now, creating experimental and often transgressive work that frequently walks the line between documentary reality and artistic truth. Nothing has fazed her in this time, even working in the bohemian heyday of the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Berlin, but her latest film, in […]

Dawn Porter didn’t set out to become a documentary filmmaker. She was as an attorney before she hit the scene with her directorial debut, “Gideon’s Army,” in 2013. In fact, …

Hillary Clinton was ready to bare her soul, or so Hulu subscribers were told in March. After missing her shot at the presidency, Clinton would, at last, let her guard down. A four-part documentary promised to reveal the true Clinton, anchored by two thousand hours of fly-on-the-wall footage from her 2016 campaign and thirty-five hours […]

What if you could pull your long-forgotten memories from the hazy past — and hold them again in your hands? Director Ted Fisher asks three adults to play a childhood game and remember their early dreams and desires. As they step into the past, they look again at their hopes for the future.

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