Documentary Category

Documentary, Film Festival

Hot Docs 2011: Day 4

The day began with the summit talk where top commissioners and broadcasters discussed the ways in which they open up funding opportunities and slots in support

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Documentary, Film Festival

Hot Docs 2011: Day 3

After a late night hanging out with the SDI, I went up to the Rogers industry centre to listen to a talk from some of the filmmakers who have feature docs in

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Documentary, Film Festival

Hot Docs 2011: Day 2

My day started with a forum discussion with some documentary broadcasters from True Stories, Discovery, POV and High Fidelity HD. It was interesting to hear

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Documentary, Film Festival

Hot Docs 2011: Day 1

This year my film PS Your Mystery Sender has been selected for the Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto. Fortunately, they also invited me here to support it. As

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Documentary

Salim Baba

In these 3D-HD-ADHD times, as film (and its audience) continues to be polarised into sofa- or spectacle-cinema, you could be forgiven for losing sight of what

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Art & Fashion, Documentary

Diary

Tim Hetherington, co-director of one of my favourite films of last year Restrepo, put his life on the line for his work and tragically died covering the events

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Documentary

They Turned Our Desert Into Fire: London Premiere

Mark Brecke’s 2007 They Turned Our Desert Into Fire is a powerful feature documentary that asks how the world can continue to look away whilst the people

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Documentary

Beautiful Liverpool

Following their look into the harsh reality of life as a drug addict in Swansea Love Story, directors Andy Capper and Leo Leigh have reunited for a new

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Documentary

Symmetry

Everynone team up with WNYC’s Radiolab again to bring us a balanced look at the world in Symmetry.

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN SXSW2011: Convento – Jarred Alterman

Sitting somewhere between documentary and art piece, Convento looks at the work of Dutch kinetic artist Christiaan Zwanikken and the restored monastery in

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN SXSW2011: Way of the Morris – Tim Plester

Despite living a 50 minute train ride from my house, it took, two planes and the SXSW film festival for me to catch up with actor and director Tim Plester.

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Documentary

The Bicycle City Trailer

We don’t often post trailers on DN but as a daily bike rider myself, Greg Sucharew’s upcoming feature documentary The Bicycle City tapped into my

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