Ready to catch the latest screen hits for September? This month brings a fresh batch of content, including some older documentaries now streaming thanks to DocPlay and the new National Film and Sound Archive Player.
The first of these, Hearts of Darkness, is a timely watch as we await Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming passion project, Megalopolis (and...
Like Ultimate Frisbee in its grassroots approach. Funded by a Kickstarter campaign, the makers have done well to put together a cohesive piece that will thrill both fans of Ultimate and folks interested in equity.
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Crafting Contemporary Documentaries and Docuseries for Global Screens delves into the processes by which the study participants, all creative practitioners, learn skills and acquire inspiration and mastery, and specific rituals and habits of practice.
This short documentary is based on a pilot project - when four Indigenous artists visited Taiwan and Australia for 10 days in June and July 2023 to undertake field research, led by Dr. Sophie McIntyre and Dr. Fang Chun-wei. It was the first time most of these artists had travelled to Taiwan and Australia, and it was also the first time they met oth...
This year, all the Oscar nominees for best documentary feature come from outside of the United States.
For documentary scholars and practitioners, examining how totalization plays out – and might be resisted in practice – has become a rich site of investigation and debate (see Nichols 1991; Renov 2004; Cooper 2006; Saxton 2007; Nash 2011; Baek 2016; Colusso 2017). As both Bill Nichols (2017) and Kate Nash (2011) point out, different documentary mode...
This book explores the industrial and personal challenges faced by filmmakers in bringing the current worldwide craze for documentary films and series to screens small and large. Utilizing a number of case studies drawn from in-depth interviews with acclaimed documentary directors, producers, and screenwriters from around the world, Phoebe Hart off...
La ex cárcel pública de Valparaíso, desafectada en 1999, ocupada desde entonces como espacio cultural y reinaugurada en 2011 como Parque Cultural de Valparaíso, constituye el crisol de memorias sociales contrastantes. Este artículo explora las memorias de la ex cárcel desde el prisma de la mirada documental desarrollada en dos filmes chilenos, 1985...
The primary purpose of the non-fiction transmedia documentary project “The Future is in the Mountains” was to communicate the benefits for the native and creole resi-dents of the “Impenetrable Chaco” of continuing to live in that territory and not migrate to urban center. A transmedia device is part of the philosophy of collective impact. Aim for a...
