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Celebration of diversity of expression
"Frescoes" is like an ideal film should be: a strong visual experience expressed in beautifully crafted pictures and using many facets of the film language as its expression.
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IDFA 2002: The World in Short
During the years 1995-2000, a IDFA Silver Wolf prize was annually awarded to docs made on video, parallel to the Joris Ivens celluloid film competition.
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South Africa, SABC1: Outperforming Ally McBeal
The allegation by TV executives that no one cares to watch documentaries is invalid and unnecessary.
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The experience involves unimaginable pain
The circumcision of women may be the ultimate act of subjugation, a brutal operation to control women physically, so they will go directly from obeying their parents to obeying their husband, without being carried away by sexual lust.
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Chronicling the Cycle of Abuse
Quite anonymous in itself, the title is well-chosen for this exceptional film. The film is about Stevie and lays his whole life bare for the viewer. It is not an enviable life either: as the film leaves Stevie, he has just started to serve a ten-year sentence for child molesting.
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Family’s struggle to save their farm in the face of corporate greed
A family-run farm in the middle of the Idaho prairie is the fulfilment of German immigrant Wulf’s American dream and also the setting of "American Dream".
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Alternative look at the Jewish-Palestinian conflict
US-Jewish filmmaker BZ Goldberg, and co-directors Justine Shapiro and Carlos Bolado, view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a children's perspective in Oscar-nominated "Promises". This gives the film a sadly contemporary relevance in the light of the latest developments in Gaza where three 14-year-olds attacked a Jewish settlement in desperation, already feeling a responsibility to fight.
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Raising Responsibility in a Mad World
When the Internet started to skyrocket, many had the idea that it would democratize the media by giving everybody access to publicise their views, in contrast with the printed media, radio, television and film where control is centralized.
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Filmmakers Become Content Creators
The D-Word Community’s "Essays on Documentary" marks a new step toward producing docs for the web.