Commentary
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On British television, documentary commissioning editors are encouraging new documentary formats to balance the demand for high ratings with public service obligations.
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Informed consent is considered a standard requirement when filming people for a documentary. However reasonable the idea, in reality the consent is not always…
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There are several online portals for displaying your short doc, like YouTube which contains all sorts of user-generated content. But if you are interested…
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Quite a few documentaries are shown in the European Parliament. It is not a bad place to get exposure for a certain case, as…
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PROFILE: Michael Apted, Rainer Hartleb, Winfried, and Barbara Junge have been documenting the life journeys of individuals for four or five decades in Sweden,…
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By contrast with most other European public service channels, Arte still keeps flying the European flag of culture.
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For the first time ever, a Syrian documentary project was pitched at the Amsterdam FORUM and was one of the most successful pitches to…
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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…
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The prestigious Democracy Project was launched more than two years ago and has been heavily promoted at documentary events around the world. The project…