Ten feature-length documentaries released theatrically since 1991 have grossed over $15 million globally, Daily Variety reported on June 25, 2004
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While it's been refreshing over the past year to see a relative proliferation of documentaries in commercial theaters, the operative word is still
"Truth is the first casualty of war," the old adage says. And in the case of the war in Iraq it is alarmingly accurate. Documentarians have stepped in
Docuphiles know and love the elegant British director Michael Apted for his " Up" series, the ground-breaking British documentary project that, for 40
FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES Born into Brothels Directors/Producers/Cinematographers: Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman Editors: NancyBaker, Ross Kauffman Composer
She is young, pretty, petite. She faces a hostile group of men who claim the Koran decrees that women should cover their faces, and dares to tell them
"My name is Alanis Obomsawin. I am an Abenaki woman from Odenak, Québec," she proclaims. Her life reads like a storybook legend. She was born on
Shoestring budgets, borrowed equipment, deferred pay, intermittent and interminable production schedules—these have become the required ingredients in
The IDA Awards were created in 1984, as part of our organization's intense desire to improve the recognition of documentaries and the filmmakers who
With the roll-out of one political doc after another this fall, it's easy to forget that documentarians can start out in art school as well as