Commentary
Essays, commentaries and editorials on contemporary political questions (conflicts/peace, ecology/thinking, control/surveillance).
TG4, the Irish Gaelic language broadcaster, faces the same struggle for ratings that ‘normal’ broadcasters do, i.e. going for the least expensive programmes.
TUE STEEN MÜLLER visited Istanbul just before the Iraq War started. He found an isolated, politically engaged, relatively big documentary community that organizes a…
LUCINDA BROADBENT participated in Mediamatic’s workshop Non-linear Storytelling for Documentary Makers’ at IDFA November 2002. She shares her experiences in creating an interactive documentary…
Two British producers had a strong desire to bring Chinese directors to Europe to present China to Western audiences. They started out with a…
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…
Grand documentary filmmaker Herz Frank has been working for three years on his latest film "Flashback". The result is not only a new film…
In "August, a Moment Before the Eruption", Avi Mograbi portrays the hot month of August as a metaphor for the omnipresence of violence, anger,…
For a decade the cultural channel ARTE has been broadcasting high quality documentaries to European audiences. Considered elitist by some and truly creative by…
The fourth Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival was held on 4-10 March 2002, under the theme 'Images of the 21st Century'. LARS MOVIN was…