Online Articles: June 2008 | International Documentary Association

Writer Dalton Trumbo.

Exhuming McCarthy: 'Trumbo' Profiles the Blacklisted Screenwriter

Through footage, clips, stills, on-camera testimonials and staged readings of Dalton Trumbo's writings, Peter Askin's 'Trumbo' tells a story with contemporary poltical resonance.

Tom DeWolf in Ghana.

The Ties That Bind: A Family Faces Its Dark History in 'Traces of the Trade'

By Kathleen Fairweather

Katrina Brown's 'Traces of the Trade,' which opens POV's 21st season on PBS, follows the filmmaker and her family to Ghana and Cuba as they trace the route of the slave trade, dominated by their ancestor, James DeWolf.

Sur Sudha perform in 'Playing for Change: Peace Through Music'

THE DOC SHOT Q&A: Joe Carnahan, Producer, 'Playing for Change: Peace Through Music'

By Tamara Krinsky

Writer/director/producer Joe Carnahan takes a walk on the documentary side.

Julie Checkoway, director of 'Waiting for Hockney'

THE DOC SHOT Q&A: Julie Checkoway, Director, 'Waiting for Hockney'

By Tamara Krinsky

Julie Checkoway talks about her film about an art school graduate who spends eight years on a single drawing, with t5he hope of showing it to renowned artist David Hockney.

J.L. "Red" Rountree as featured in'This is Not a Robbery'

THE DOC SHOT Q&A: Andrew Lauren, Producer, 'This Is Not a Robbery'

By Tamara Krinsky

Andrew Lauren talks about the making of a documentary about an octogenarian dubbed the "World's Oldest Bank Robber."

It's Academic: New Book on Robert Gardner Gives An Ivory-Tower's View of His Work

By Barry Hampe

This book on famed documentarian Robert Gardner's work is often mired in the arcana of academia.

Filmmaker Werner Herzog at the rim of Erebus, from his 'Encounters at the End of the World.' Photo: Peter Zeitlinger

Ecstasy on Ice: Werner Herzog's 'Encounters at the End of the World'

By Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson

Werner Herzog's latest film finds astonishing beauty in the vistas and people of Antarctica.

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