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Documentary Film

AFI DOCS' 2013 Film Festival Schedule

The Huffington Post | Erin Ruberry | Posted 05.22.2013 | DC

WASHINGTON -- A documentary featuring celebrities reading some of the nearly 800,000 letters sent to first lady Jacqueline Kennedy after President Ken...

MediaStorm and the 2013 ICP Infinity Awards

K.J. Wetherholt | Posted 05.10.2013 | Media
K.J. Wetherholt

On May 1, the International Center of Photography hosted the 2013 ICP Infinity Awards, honoring one board member and seven photographers in what is considered one of the most respected series of awards for photographic excellence internationally.

The True Price of a Pair of Jeans: Documentary Offers a Glimpse at the Grim Reality Behind the Outsourcing of Garment Production

Julie Flynn Badal | Posted 05.10.2013 | Impact
Julie Flynn Badal

York and Majid's timely film, The Machinists, is a visual document of the exploitation of garment workers in Bangladesh. The film gives voice to three young people working in the factories in Dhaka.

Documenting a Life in the Woods

Mary J. Loftus | Posted 04.15.2013 | Green
Mary J. Loftus

Ever wonder what it would be like to live deep in a forest for 50 years? Me either. But that's exactly what Harvard graduate Bill Coperthwaite has done, living a self-sustaining life in a three-story yurt in the Maine woods for more than five decades, attracting a near-cult status and fan following.

Some More Books: Part 1

James Franco | Posted 04.02.2013 | Entertainment
James Franco

John Gregory Dunne's The Studio is the result of diligent observation he conducted after receiving permission to access any area of Twentieth Century Fox's wide production net in 1968. As with documentary films, here the subject matter does half the work.

Altering Nature in Morocco (PHOTOS)

Aida Alami | Posted 03.29.2013 | World
Aida Alami

A year ago, I heard about the twists and turns of the making of a documentary film that chronicled land disputes in northern Morocco between a rich bu...

Northern Lights/Global Activism

Paul Stoller | Posted 03.25.2013 | College
Paul Stoller

For someone who has taught college students for more than 30 years, it is troubling to see how the current mindlessness of narrow-minded politicians and bean-counting college administrators threatens to undermine the long established and productive foundation of higher education.

Girl Rising and the Power to Change the World

David Edmund Moody | Posted 05.11.2013 | Impact
David Edmund Moody

She reads poetry with power and passion, and at the age of fourteen has already been honored for her own poems. She says poetry is the gold she discovered within herself.

A Little Crowdfunding Slight of Hand [Podcast]

Turnstyle | Posted 04.28.2013 | Arts
Turnstyle

By: Noah J. Nelson Here's the audio podcast edition of our recent Google Hangout with director Marcie Hume. Join Lucas McNelly, Marcie and myself as...

Films Can Help Change the World

Bonnie Benjamin-Phariss | Posted 04.27.2013 | Impact
Bonnie Benjamin-Phariss

Film is big business. We track its annual contribution to the "entertainment" sector in billions of dollars. But film is much more than simply entertainment. Film, it turns out, is an ideal catalyst for change.

This Year In Palestine

Gail Vida Hamburg | Posted 04.21.2013 | World
Gail Vida Hamburg

In the face of international media indifference, the Palestinian people decided to start telling their own stories of living under occupation. One of those stories, 5 Broken Cameras, is an astonishing film by a Palestinian farmer from Bilin, a village in the West Bank.

Revolution Through Communication

Dr. Tukufu Zuberi | Posted 04.10.2013 | Black Voices
Dr. Tukufu Zuberi

Violence is now used almost exclusively at the cost of everyday people's lives, and nothing revolutionary can come out of the intentional death of innocents. I recognized long ago that the time of communicative revolution is upon us.

Michelangelo Signorile

Gay Civil Rights Hero Bayard Rustin Remembered

HuffingtonPost.com | Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 03.12.2013 | Gay Voices

Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin was a visionary and an openly gay man who dared to be out in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, when homophobia was at an ...

5 Must-See Indie Films This Month

Leonard Maltin | Posted 04.03.2013 | Arts
Leonard Maltin

Since this is Academy Award month, I've decided to focus on Oscar-nominated documentaries, with one ringer to lighten the tone of these mostly-serious films. However, I can't let the moment pass without putting in a good word for a film that went all but unnoticed in theaters last fall.

No Room for Waste in Trashed

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 03.31.2013 | Green
Marcia G. Yerman

"I completely believe in a bottom-up shift, I think we underestimate the power we have as communities and consumers. We all have the power to say, 'NO.'"

Trashed Examines Global Waste

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 01.28.2013 | Entertainment
Marcia G. Yerman

Candida Brady, director of Trashed made the film because waste "is a huge universal problem, affecting us all and needing all of our attention -- now."

WATCH: The Lure Of The Open Road

Ethan Gelber | Posted 03.05.2013 | Travel
Ethan Gelber

In 2007, at the happy-long-road-ahead age of 23, Englishman Tom Allen launched into the world. He headed out of his village with plans to "cycle a lap of the Earth." Three and a half years, 12,000 mapless miles and 32 countries later comes the film Janapar.

Africa Straight Up: New Film Counters Stereotypes

Ethan Gelber | Posted 02.03.2013 | Travel
Ethan Gelber

Anyone who has been to Africa knows that there is no such thing as a single Africa. Africa Straight Up debunks the (in)sensibility that Africa could ever be limited to a single narrative.

'A Lot Of People Think I’m A Horrible Person'

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 12.07.2012 | Arts

Caveh Zahedi is a New York based filmmaker known for pushing people's buttons. In "I Don't Hate Las Vegas Anymore," he tries to get his Persian father...

"Maybe the Press Failed Then": An Interview With Ken Burns and Raymond Santana

Rick Ayers | Posted 01.29.2013 | Crime
Rick Ayers

The actual assailant, who confessed years later and whose DNA confirmed his story, was never in the sights of the police and prosecutors. Sadly, people remember the hysteria of the conviction campaign and often don't even realize that the lynch-mob mentality got the wrong guys.

Lessons From Geffen

Donnie Demers | Posted 01.27.2013 | Entertainment
Donnie Demers

At nearly 70 years old and with many years to reflect upon, David Geffen seems to have sought refuge in a few poignant words that came near the end of the documentary on his life: "I believe everyone dies unhealed."

Sweet Dreams: Reconciliation in Rwanda at DocNYC

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 01.12.2013 | Arts
Marcia G. Yerman

Sweet Dreams is a documentary that chronicles how a group of Rwandan women survived destruction and mass murder, and then embarked on the tenuous path of healing.

Filmmaker Rafael Garcia's Thoughts On Mexico Travel

Joshua Berman | Posted 01.09.2013 | Travel
Joshua Berman

Mayan Blue, Garcia's feature length documentary film, explores the history of the Yucatan and surrounding regions -- often underwater in cenotes, lakes and other unique water features of the region. Mayan Blue also reveals the remarkable archaeological site of Samabaj, a pre-classic site that was flooded in a cataclysmic event on Lake Atitlan some 2000 years ago.

A Movie Healed Them

Michael D'Antonio | Posted 01.08.2013 | Religion
Michael D'Antonio

The movie, "Mea Maxima Culpa, Silence in the House of God," reveals a horrendous example of the clerical system that allowed thousands of priests to sexually abuse children in America and around the world.

Melvin & Jean: Revisiting a 40-Year-Old American Hijacking

Richard Z. Chesnoff | Posted 01.07.2013 | New York
Richard Z. Chesnoff

Melvin & Jean is another masterful work by award winning documentarian Maia Wechsler. It traces the lives of the Melvin and Jean McNai, a couple in their twenties who hijacked a flight out of Detroit in the sixties.