Commentary
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Two very different films caught the author’s attention at Thessaloniki Doc fest in March. Despite their difference, they both demonstrated that it is what…
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There is this general perception that you are either a journalist OR a film director. But what if you do not feel comfortable in…
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The Sarajevo Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary last August with a selection of feature films and documentaries. Ten years after the festival was established…
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Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) remains one of the most influential documentary filmmakers. Yet – aside from the astounding The Man with a Movie Camera (1929)…
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A group of Indian filmmakers created an alternative festival to the MIFF in twenty days on a shoestring budget. The festival evolved from a…
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The "Steps for the Future" doc collection was established to take an innovative approach to addressing the serious HIV/AIDS problems in Southern Africa. A…
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Re-enacting events is a growing trend in history documentaries. This was one of the issues highlighted at the third World Congress of History Producers…
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As Sunny Side of the Doc was celebrating record-breaking numbers of projects and buyers, five filmmakers from Tehran silently arrived in Marseilles. Somewhere at…
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So far, India has had only one major festival of docs and shorts – the Mumbai International Film Festival, which started as a biannual…