Commentary
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In Austria several public bodies provide film funding for documentaries, giving filmmakers a base on which to deal with Austrian issues, instead of having…
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TG4, the Irish Gaelic language broadcaster, faces the same struggle for ratings that ‘normal’ broadcasters do, i.e. going for the least expensive programmes.
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TUE STEEN MÜLLER visited Istanbul just before the Iraq War started. He found an isolated, politically engaged, relatively big documentary community that organizes a…
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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…
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Two British producers had a strong desire to bring Chinese directors to Europe to present China to Western audiences. They started out with a…
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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…
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Grand documentary filmmaker Herz Frank has been working for three years on his latest film "Flashback". The result is not only a new film…
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In "August, a Moment Before the Eruption", Avi Mograbi portrays the hot month of August as a metaphor for the omnipresence of violence, anger,…
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For a decade the cultural channel ARTE has been broadcasting high quality documentaries to European audiences. Considered elitist by some and truly creative by…