Joel DeMott, renowned cinema vérité filmmaker, died on June 13, 2025. DeMott is best known for her films Seventeen (1983), which she co-directed with Jeff Kreines, and Demon Lover Diary (1980). Alongside Kreines, DeMott created a model of intimate cinema vérité filmmaking that has inspired countless filmmakers.
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Alina Gorlova, Yelizaveta Smith, and Simon Mozgovyi’s riveting Militantropos , its title a mashup of “milit" (soldier in Latin) and “antropos” (human
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