Tag: documentary
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…
Review: For Sama is 2019’s Most Indispensable Documentary Film
Some films you know little of the plot or much about them at all going into them. That’s not necessarily the message I want to…
FemmeFilmFest Review: Alexandria Bombach’s Powerful Documentary On Her Shoulders
There is a deeply unsettling feeling that the truly empathetic experiences when informed of atrocities, regardless of the medium of conveyance. Documentary filmmaking, with or…
FemmeFilmFest Review: Official Selection – Earth • People • Words (Dayna Reggero)
Documentaries have long been an opportunity for filmmakers to make a statement, using real people’s stories combined with pointed interviews. The medium has been used…
FemmeFilmFest Interview: Dayna Reggero on her poetic journey with ‘Earth • People • Words’
One of 20 films in competition at the 4th Femme Filmmakers Festival is Earth • People • Words, a documentary short drawing it’s inspiration from…
FemmeFilmFest: Roxy Rezvany’s Little Pyongyang
Directed by Roxy Rezvany, this documentary short tells the story of Joong-wha Choi, a North Korean immigrant living in London. He’s a member of one…
EIFF Exclusive Review: What She Said – The Art of Pauline Kael
Too often I come across the age-old question: What is the point of film critics? Every other month the debate as to whether we need…
Filmotomy Podcast 75: Film Festival Survival Guide
Filmotomy Podcast 75 might as well be a milestone. This is a crackingly insightful episode as a trio of femme fatales share their film festival…
