I must admit, I was not immediately seduced by the idea of watching a documentary about the story of EMS (Electronic Music Studios), most famous for its legacy, the VCS3, Britain’s first synthesizer and rival of the American Moog
PROFILE: Michael Apted, Rainer Hartleb, Winfried, and Barbara Junge have been documenting the life journeys of individuals for four or five decades in Sweden, Germany, and the UK
The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival brings the world of international documentary to Greek filmmakers and audiences
Visions du réel showed a promising selection of films from up-and-coming filmmakers during a sunny week in late April.
Sherine Salama was the last person to interview Yasser Arafat, just a month before his death, but it took her a year to get the permission to do it. Her film “The Last Days of Yasser Arafat” was screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival this May where DOX met her.
Documentary filmmakers want to be at the forefront of new media developments and DocAgora attempts to meet this need. DOX attended two of the DocAgora conferences, but first a brief intro.
As the only production company in the world to do so, the small Danish production company Team Productions obtained access to film two of the most important trials of this century: those of Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein.
DocAgora events promise to be at the forefront when it comes to talking about the digital future of documentaries
The title refers to a favourite Uyghur pastime, and, of course, is a good metaphor for their situation as a people.