Politics was in the air last June during the 6th Petersburg Festival, which still bears its original title, "Message to Man." The Festival, once a
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From time to time, I lecture on the subject of documentaries. And I've found that the most frequently asked questions deal with funding: how do you
EDITOR'S NOTE: Alan Rosenthal received the 1990 IDA Preservation and Scholarship Award, in recognition of landmark achievements in authoring and
The worldwide proliferation of new documentaries has meant that festival programmers today have increased riches to draw upon, in their bid for
There's a new festival in town! It all started in November 1995 when Lyall Bush, with the support of the Washington Commission for the Humanities
The 1996 additions to the U.S. National Film Registry included four documentaries: The Forgotten Frontier (1931), a film about nursing and healthcare
Two of Chicago's international film fests—the 30 year-old Chicago International Film Festival and the 16 year-old Chicago Lesbian & Gay International
Now in its 19th year, the Asian American International Film Festival took place July 19-28 at the Alliance Française, a New York City cultural
You know what? It is the 8mm movie that will save us. Blind as we are, it will take us a few more years to see it, but some people see it already
Changes in the media and the culture have brought about greater use of home movies in documentary today. We witness: a rise in appreciation of