Tag: Documentaries
Q and A With Writer/Director Scott Fivelson On His Hollywood Satire, Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
Back in college, studying Media Studies, I delved into a huge project designing a production package for a film, real or not. I would very…
100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 15
Sometimes greatness in movies miss the boat with the Academy Awards. Or rather, those that vote. Be it a highly acclaimed documentary, an iconic Italian…
Genre Blast: Truth Be Told – Documentary Features
As defined by the Oxford Dictionary, a documentary is a film “that provides a factual record or report.” What the dictionary does not say is that an effective documentarian takes those raw facts and arranges them in such a way as to clarify a point or to provide additional weight and understanding to the topic at hand. This makes the documentary nearly as subjective as a fictional work …
Rat Film Is Perhaps The Most Arresting Documentary Of The Century
At last, it’s what we’ve been asking for: a documentary about Baltimore’s storied rat infestation. What if a documentary compared the lives of rats to…
Warehoused: The Documentary Film Takes Us To The Refugee Camps Of Kenya
With the candid, provoking feature-length documentary Warehoused, from Life Is My Movie Entertainment, I was not only reminded of the power of the non-fiction genre,…
Femme Filmmakers Festival 2017: Day Four Program
Welcome to Day Four of the Femme Filmmakers Festival, and it shows no sign of slowing down. Today’s showings include a brand new retro-comedy-horror, a…
Over 11 Hours Of David Fincher – Interviews, Documentaries, Profiles Etc
Off the bat, the following barrage of videos centering around the elusive career of David Fincher, were not to difficult to track down. However, they…
