Documentary Film

The New School Presents a Sneak Preview of the Documentary Flying Paper

Stephanie Spiro | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Guinness World Record, Palestine, Gaza Strip, Documentary, Documentary Film, The New School, The New School for Public Engagement, Flying Paper, College News

After the preview of the movie, a man in the audience, visibly moved, raised his hand and said: "Growing up in Palestine, kite flying was the only thing that made me feel free."

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David Kennard: 40 Years of Nonfiction Hits

Terence Clarke | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Pbs, InCA Films, Documentary Film, Film, PBS Documentaries, San Francisco Symphony, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Pbs Keeping Score, David Kennard, Culture News

Kennard has just finished writing, producing and directing a remarkable series of films for PBS titled Keeping Score. Each film features a single major piece by a particular composer.

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Bel Borba Is 'The People's Picasso'

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Bel Borba Aqui, Bel Borba, Poverty, Public Art, Brazil, Burt Sun, Tile, Street Art, Documentary, Documentary Film, Salvador, Andre Costantini, Video, Arts News

"When I think of any artistic movement in Salvador, I automatically link it to Bel Borba." An airport taxi driver delivers these words to the document...

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Blood, Sweat, Dreams: 'Fightville' Director Talks MMA and Rising Star Dustin Poirier

Turnstyle | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Fightville, Louisiana, Dustin Poirier, Tim Credeur, Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker, Gil Guillory, Documentary, Mixed Martial Arts, Documentary Film, Ufc, Gunner Palace, Mma, Arts News

By: Noah J. Nelson In Fightville, directors Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein get down and dirty on the front lines of the mixed martial arts world....

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The New Environmentalists: Grassroots Activists Fight for Justice

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Lorrae Rominger, Dreaming of Tibet, Will Parrinello, Mill Vallery Film Group, The New Environmentalists, Activism, Pbs, Green News, The Goldman Environmental Prize, Gaylord Nelson, Documentary Film, Green, Earth Day, Robert Redford, Sundance Channel, Video, Green News

The New Environmentalists is shown nationally on PBS and the Sundance Channel and foreign television. It's not only to create awareness about the Goldman Environmental Prize winners' work, but to inspire others to do the same.

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One More Film to Support on Kickstarter: Profiling America

Zack Exley | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Documentary Film, Thom Stark, Racial Profiling, Trayvon Martin, Crowdfunding, Profiling America, Kickstarter, Impact News

A guy named ‎Thom Stark is making a movie that you should support right now on Kickstarter. He's an amazing guy who I first tracked down when I was ...

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The Coolest Woman You May Never Have Heard About

One Thing New | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: I Married Adventure, Martin Johnson, Documentary Film, Adventure, Filmakers, Osa Johnson, Animals, Movies, Wildlife, Women News

Connie Guglielmo | One Thing New When I grow up, I want to be just like Osa Johnson. A small-town girl from Chanute, Kansas, Osa lived a life of...

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Blast Off With The Lebanese Rocket Society

Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Photography, Video, The Third Line, Dubai Art, Middle East History, Slidepollajax, Great Arab Dream, Lebanese Rocket Society, Rocket, Documentary Film, Middle Eastern Art, Joana Hadji Thomas and Khalil Joreige, Arts News

The Third Line Gallery in Dubai is currently exhibiting the latest installments of an ongoing project titled, "Lebanese Rocket Society: Part III, IV,...

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When Is The Past Not The Past? In The Hands Of 'Shoah' Director Claude Lanzmann

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Paull | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Shoah, The Patagonian Hare, Holocaust Museum, The Holocaust, Claude Lanzmann, Simone De Beauvoir, Tete-a-Tete Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Regina Longo, Documentary Film, Jean-Paul Sartre, French Films, Jewish Community Center San Francisco, Fifty News

The past, the past, le passé. Past perfect, past imperfect, passé composé...The past weighs heavy on 87-year-old Claude Lanzmann, director of the i...

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Filmmaker Pays Tribute To Midwestern Punk Icon

Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Video, Art, Hemophilia, Chris Snipes, Punk Rock, Lincoln Nebraska, Zines, Kickstarter, Documentary, Artists, Nebraska, Documentary Film, Documentary Filmmaker, Mott-Ly, Film, Arts News

Born in the face of obstacles that would bring a normal person to the point of giving up, Lee Tisdale, known affectionately as Mott-ly to friends, was...

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2012 Oscars: Are Docs Technically Getting the Shaft?

Farihah Zaman | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Wim Wenders, 2012 Oscars, Boxing Gym, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Battle of Chile, Grey Gardens, Robert Flaherty, Documentary Film, Film, Movies, Werner Herzog, Star Trek, 2012, Best Documentary, Best Picture, Tootsie, Best Cinematography, Katherine Bigelow, Frederick Wiseman, La Danse, James Cameron, Pina, Nostalgia for the Light, Documentary, 2012 Oscar Nominations, Avatar, Hurt Locker, Patricio Guzman, Academy Awards, The Oscars, Maysles, The Academy Awards, Oscar Nominations, Oscars, Entertainment News

What grander achievement can there be in cinematography than taking something we know and have possibly even seen on film before -- like a historic cave or a simple piece of choreography -- and transforming it into something more real than ever before?

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Review: Bonsai People: Celebrating the Work of Muhammad Yunus

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Loan, Grameen, Yunus, Documentary Film, Grameen Bank, Nobel Peace Prize, Bangladesh, Poverty, Muhammad Yunus, Bonsai, Bonsai People, Bonsai People Documentary, Bonsai People: Celebrating the Work of Muhammad Yunus, Entertainment News

In a destitute country facing famine, natural disasters, and a beleaguered government, Muhammad Yunus saw an opportunity to help people one by one, and built an organization of others helping poor people help themselves

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Documentary Filmmaker: What I Really Do

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Photography, Documentary, Filmmaking, Documentary Film, Movies, Comedy News

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The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan Examines Sexual Abuse in Afghanistan

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Najibullah Quaraishi, The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan, Jamie Doran, Women in Afghan Society, Bachi Bazi, Impact, Documentary Film, Radhika Coomaraswamy, Sexual Slavery, Arts Activism, Northern Alliance, Taliban, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Afghanistan, Child Slavery, Sheberghan, Video, Impact News

"Western soldiers will no longer be dying on a daily basis and, frankly, who will care any more about the deaths of Afghans after 2014? Can we honestly believe that, in this likely scenario, combating the abuse of poor children will be a priority?"

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Debilitated Artist Finds Freedom In The Water

Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Painters, Video, Painter, Guillain-Barre-Syndrome, Alfredo De Batuc, Documentary, Documentary Film, Art Documentary, Film, Guillain Barre, Eric Minh Swenson, Arts News

Artist Alfredo de Batuc always felt at home in the water, but he never knew it would come to represent his freedom after a debilitating disease would ...

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SILENCE = DEATH

Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Sarah-Schulman, Video, Activism, ACT UP, GLBT Rights, Documentary, Documentary Film, GLBT History, Act-Up-New-York, Moma, Arts News

United In Anger, a new film by producers Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman, is the first feature-length documentary to present the history of the AIDS Co...

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Is Virtual Reality The Next Step In Documentary Film?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Video, Virtual Reality Journalism, Nonny De La Pena, Sundance Film Festival, Food Banks, Virtual Reality, Gone Gitmo, Hunger in America, Virtual Journalism, Documentary Film, Hunger in Los Angeles, Sundance, Slidepollajax, Culture News

Imagine you're at a food bank outside the First Unitarian Church in Los Angeles. It's a clear and hot Saturday in August. Dozens of hungry people are ...

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What New Oscar Rules Will Change Everything?

Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Martin-Scorsese-George-Harrison, Martin Scorsese Living in the Material World, Academy Awards, Documentary Film Oscar, Martin Scorsese, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, George Harrison, Documentary Film, The Oscars, George Harrison Documentary, Academy, Oscar Rules, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Video, Documentary Oscar, Martin Scorsese George Harrison Documentary, Academy-Rules, Documentary, Arts News

A controversial new amendment by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is raising some red flags with documentary filmmakers. The Academy an...

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Documentaries Old and New; Sascha Rice, Sundance and Nanook

Hellin Kay | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Bill Cunningham, Political Documentaries, Reality TV, Gatling Pictures, Sundance Film Festival, Tabloid, New Documentaries, Palm Springs Film Festival, Ice T, Pat Brown, Bard College, Nanook of the North, Cure for the Pain, Sascha Rice, Adolfas Mekas, Robert Flaherty, Nostalgia, California History, Mad Men, Politics, John Pruitt, Film History, Page One, Restrepo, Jerry Brown, Mark Sandman, Documentary Film, Moca, Arts News

Documentary film is one of the most undervalued of all art forms. But thanks I guess partly to "reality TV" people seem to have rediscovered it in the mainstream.

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WATCH: Mr. Brainwash Prepares 'Art Show 2011'

Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Exit Through the Gift Shop, Mr. Brainwash, Video, Banksy Street Art, Academy Awards, Thierry Guetta, Academy Awards Documentary, Street Art, Documentary, The Seventh Letter, Documentary Film, Art Show 2011, The Oscars, Banksy, Arts News

Mr. Brainwash, the polarizing art megastar made famous/infamous in Banksy's Oscar-nominated documentary "Exit Through The Gift Shop" is readying an 80...

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Ordinary Citizens Fight Big Coal in The Last Mountain

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Maria Gunnoe, Particulates, Bo Webb. Mountain Justice Summer, Mountaintop Blasting, George W. Bush, Documentary Film, Penn Future, Obama, Coal River Mountain, Bruce Mansfield Power Plant, Coal, Ed Wiley, Electricity, Activism, Coal River Valley, John Kennedy, Susan Bird, Asthma, New Source Rule, Robert F. Kenedy Jr., The Last Mountain, Ovec, Massey Energy, Joe Manchin Greenhouse Gases, Silicosis, Alpha Natural Resources, Green, Uncommon Productions, EPA Fine, Bill Haney, Appalachian Mountains, Coal Lobby, Mine Disaster, Heavy Metals, Jennifer Hall-Massey, Green News, Toxic Fly Ash, Ozone, Video, Green News

Featuring citizen activists fighting for clean air and water against entrenched interests and corporate dollars, the documentary combines backstory, statistics, and human interest to explain more fully the narrative of where our electricity comes from.

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From Punk to Papa: 'The Other F Word' Premieres November 4

Deborah Stambler | Posted 01.03.2012

I kept looking over at my daughter as we watched the film. Blink 182 is one of her favorite bands, and I wanted to see her reaction to seeing some of her music heroes talk about being dads.

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'Catfish' Director Talks 'Paranormal Activity 3,' Filming Himself

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Fake Documentary, Social Media, Video, Henry Joost, Horror Films, Catfish Fake?, Catfish, Paranormal Activity 3, Paranormal Activity, Diy, Social Networking Film, Documentary Film, Ariel Schulman, Sundance, Handheld Cameras, Culture News

Directors Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost were first introduced to Hollywood after their documentary, "Catfish," made a splash at Sundance last year. ...

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'I Came To Testify' Part 2: Behind The Scenes With Pamela Hogan

Deborah Stambler | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Bosnia, Women War & Peace, Pbs, I Came to Testify, Pamela Hogan, Documentary, Documentary Film, Matt Damon, Women News

"When the mother of that 12-year-old testified, it brought the trial to a standstill. They had to call a recess because she just started sobbing and they said it sounded like a wild animal."

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The Final Chapter For The West Memphis 3?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Arkansas, Paradise Lost 3, Joe Berlinger, West Memphis, Murder Case, Toronto Film Festival, Controversial Murder Case, Arkansas Law, Documentary Film, Paradise Lost, Nyff, West Memphis 3, Bruce Sinofsky, Video, Culture News

Over 18 years ago, three teenagers -- Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley -- were put on trial for the brutal murder of three 8-year-o...

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