In the US and Europe, there is a tendency to think of Latin American documentary filmmaking in terms of coups, government repression and revolution
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I was late arriving to the 2015 True/False Film Festival and lamenting missing all the screenings I’d planned to see that night. However, after a long
The It's All True Festival, Brazil's first documentary film festival, introduces a new variety of short and feature-length productions selected from
Brazil evokes a wealth of associations, from soccer to samba, but recent films such as City of God, Bus 174 and Favela Rising have pointed up the
About seven years ago, I saw an article in the Los Angeles Times about a “forgotten colony” of American Civil War-era Confederates in the town of