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What does it mean to watch?
PANEL: At Dokufest, a panel discussion posed this epic question: What does it mean to watch?
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DOX:EXCHANGE: documenting change in restrictive environments
Making documentary films and nurturing an ecosystem is not easy for most filmmakers, but in #Belarus and #Georgia, filmmakers encounter hurdles outside of the usual production/funding/distribution challenges. Both countries have a growing documentary filmmaking communities and a mostly self-made industry infrastructure. Challenging political situations on the ground and increasingly restricted arts environments have closed screening…
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SHORT DOCS AT IDFA 2007: Celebrating Diversity
To define a “short film” is complicated. There is the industry’s definition that anything under 50 minutes is a short. Or the rules of many festivals where shorts are less than 40 minutes. There’s the TV half-hour, which runs approximately 26 minutes, and the typical student film, often 10 to 20 minutes.
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SHORT DOCS: Real Stories from 3 to 40 Minutes
The short documentary is often constructed around a narrative quite different from the longer documentaries.
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Arsenic murders by women, known as The Angel Makers
Documentary recounting the story of how a group of women in post-World War I Nagyrev, Hungary poisoned several dozen people and explores why they did that.
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What it means to be “Indian” in the 21st century?
A entirely original blend of observational documentary and tropical science-fiction, John & Jane follows the stories of six "call agents" that answer American 1-800 numbers in a Mumbai call center.
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An intimate, tender portrayal of a grandmother and granddaughter
Marina lives in a small, decrepit house in Spain’s Alicante province, a house she has inhabited for 59 years, ever since she married her husband