Tag: documentary
Sundance 2021 Review: Writing with Fire
As a female journalist, is it easy just to read the statistics and see the small implications of being female in this industry from the…
LFF Review: David Byrne’s American Utopia (Spike Lee)
I had a few thoughts after the first song of American Utopia finished. The first was a sort of awe at Spike Lee’s direction, which…
LFF Review: The Painter and the Thief – A Strange But Touching Tribute to a Singular Friendship
Many great film titles dilute their characters into basic descriptors: Stalker, The Graduate, Bicycle Thieves, The Passenger. All these examples attempt to define human lives…
VIFF 2020 Review: The Reason I Jump (2020)
Why do humans tell stories? This is a question that has been asked and explored throughout the history of humanity with no one answer perfectly…
FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Kelsie Moore, director of The Get, Shelter in Place and The Gray Area
When the short films were whittled down to the final 20 for the Competition Selection of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival, it was hard to…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Shelter in Place (Kelsie Moore)
Salt Lake City, Utah looks to be a beautiful place, at least from what can be seen from the windows of a church. That is…
Film Review: Jack & Yaya (2019)
For too many LGBTQ+ people growing up, there is a grim reality of them being met with rejection and even hatred from their straight, cisgendered…
Documentary Review: American Factory
Here in the UK there’s a view from some floating in the wind about, say, the Polish coming over to England and taking our jobs….
IDA Winners from the International Documentary Association
The International Documentary Association last night announced their IDA Awards winners. The likes of For Sama, Honeyland and American Factory all came away with prizes….
7 Documentary Titles Nominated for the Producers Guild Awards
The Producers Guild of America announced the nominees for the documentary motion pictures for 2020. The remaining nominees for the 2020 Producers Guild Awards will…
Documentary Review: Knock Down the House
The initials AOC have certainly trended on numerous occasions on Twitter over the last eighteen months or so. And even those of us not fully…
Documentary Review: The Great Hack
Pretty sure most of you are far more familiar with the Facebook data scandal a couple of years ago, than who or what Cambridge Analytica…
Documentary Apollo 11 wins at the Broadcast Film Critics Association
The Critics Choice indeed. Earlier the Broadcast Film Critics Association declared their winners in the field of documentary film for 2019. As anticipated these wins reflect…
The International Documentary Association (IDA) Film Nominations
In case you missed it, the International Documentary Association (IDA) announced their nominations for the new awards season a couple of days ago. Exclusively showcasing…
