Documentaries

Yes, few people have heard about obstetric fistula (if you are one of these people an explanation is on the way), our company hadn't heard about fistula before we made our film, A Walk to Beautiful. Which is exactly why we felt compelled to bring viewers face to face with...

There may be widespread fears of an impending recession running through the minds of most Americans, but there aren't among the country's richest citizens. Contrary to common assumption, many of the wealthiest Americans aren't worried about the weakening economy at all, they are actually excited about it.

To them,...

As Pete Seeger rides out his eighties with a number of awards and musical tributes, a new documentary entitled Pete Seeger: The Power of Song attempts to capture his monumental life on film. Though not yet in full theatrical release, just watching the online trailer excited me as...

Momentum is a funny thing. No Country For Old Men premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and glory has surrounded it from day one, with Javier Bardem garnering numerous awards for his portrayal of a killer and the movie itself darn near every end of the year award in sight....

It's that time of the year again when most of Hollywood and the New York film world decamp to cold Park City, Utah, to feast on the latest indie fare at the Sundance Film Festival. This year seems a pivotal moment for the film business, with the writer's strike three...

Hey, this is Mark Malkoff, a guy I know from The Colbert Report:

NEW YORK - Mark Malkoff, a filmmaker and comedian whose video "171 Starbucks" documented his visits to all of the coffee chain's Manhattan stores in a single day, will live in an IKEA store in Paramus, N.J.,...

I was a cinema major at San Francisco State College when, in November 1967, my Film Theory professor, Ernest Callenbach, showed us a recently released cinéma vérité documentary directed by a friend of his, Frederick Wiseman, called Titicut Follies. For those unfamiliar with cinéma vérité, it is a form...

I have been blogging about my feature-length documentary on my friend Sam who is battling bipolar disorder, also know as manic depressive illness. The documentary extends in many interesting directions, but one theme I want to explore further is the marginalized voices of...

This week a movie that I produced on the history of the anti-abortion movement, Unborn in the USA: Inside the War on Abortion, comes out on DVD. I hope you will buy it and watch it. But in the meantime, has anyone noticed that there are five Catholic justices on...

Short Film Review: Documentary lovers. Do yourself a favor tonight at 9PM and check out A Summer in the Cage on the Sundance Channel.

Long Film Review:

Buddy flicks come in all shades and flavors, but Ben Selkow's film is probably the world's first guy movie about manic...

Particularly as home (and mobile) movie consumption has grown, transforming how and where we see films, the once fringe-dwelling, feature-length documentary is undergoing a sustained and long-overdue public recognition. In support of this, I note on our own website that of all the genres we cover, the documentary section shows...

It's easy to take DVDs for granted. They're small, inexpensive, often loaded with extras and offer great picture and sound far superior to VHS and a lot easier to use than those bulky old laser discs. We just assume that a few months after a movie hits theaters that we'll...