Laura Poitras
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Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller: «Hope? I call it resistance»
INTERVIEW: Short in runtime, yet sprawling in its political scope. With They’re Here, Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller assembled an uncanny hybrid of horror film and documentary from crowdsourced footage, OSINT data and material shot on the ground in and around Minneapolis during the ultra-violent ICE occupation.
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ZagrebDox announces full programme for 2023 festival
ZagrebDox, the international documentary film festival, has presented its programme for this year’s event. The festival features twenty films competing for the official award, The Big Stamp, in the international documentary film category, and an equal number of titles in regional competition. The festival aims to offer audiences a wide selection of films that address…
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Prosecution of filmmakers spreads «like a pandemic»
IDFA: ICFR addresses a growing political prosecution and incarceration of filmmakers.
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Porto/Post/Doc announces full programme details for 2022 festival
After announcing initial programme details, including the works of #Márta Mészáros#, #Miklós Jancsó# and #Sierra Pettengill# (Riotsville, USA), Porto/Post/Doc has announced its full schedule for the 2022 festival, held between 16 – 26 November. Opening the festival will be Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song, a film directed by Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine,…
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Searching for an anti-capitalist fugitive
ACTIVISM: In her feature doc Robin Bank, director Anna Giralt Gris goes searching for Catalan activist Enric Duran, who lives in hiding after he «stole» almost 500 000 Euros to expose the banks’ unethical practices.
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Documentary for social change
SOCIAL CHANGE: Essential reading for all who want to better understand what makes our time the documentary golden age
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Critique 2: Knowledge and Power
Laura Poitras’ Oscar-winning documentary offers a unique insight into Edward Snowdens historic whistle-blowing.
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Film about Iraq under U.S. occupation
We are all well aware of the dangers involved in making a documentary in Iraq these days
