Rebecca Miller was 21 years old when she realized that she wanted to be a filmmaker. Noticing that her father—distinguished Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright Arthur Miller—was a different person in his countless public interviews than the man she grew up with, she picked up a Super 8 camera and began documenting everyday life around the Miller home. Years later, in 1995, when her first feature film, Angela, won a Gotham Award, Miller was awarded a prize of 16mm film. She and cinematographer Ellen Kuras, as well as their close friends, made regular weekend trips to her family home in
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Held in Bangkok, Thailand from January 30 to February 2, the 8th edition of the Asian Side of the Doc aimed to build on its mission since the event's debut in 2010 under the vision of founder and CEO Yves Jeanneau—namely, to serve as a bridge between Asia and Europe, but also be an incubator to foster business opportunities amongst the Asian countries themselves. Comprised of moderated panel discussions, a four-day pitch competition, and one-on-one meetings between producers, broadcasters and distributors, ASD18 was held at the Centara Grand at Central Plaza Ladprao Bangkok, in the heart of
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight on National Geographic is Brett Morgen's Jane, which draws on over 100 hours of never-before-seen footage to tell the story of Jane Goodall's revolutionary research on chimpanzees. The film was awarded Best Documentary of 2017 by the National Board of Review. Tonight on HBO, catch Traffic Stop, Kate Davis and David Heilbronner's Academy Award-nominated short about an Austin-Texas-based African-American schoolteacher who is pulled over for speeding, then
Essential Doc Reads is a weekly feature in which the IDA staff recommends recent pieces about the documentary form and its processes. Here we feature think pieces and important news items from around the Internet, and articles from the Documentary magazine archive. We hope you enjoy! At Sub-Genre Media, Brian Newman details the ways that Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 took an unusual path to win the Oscar for Best Documentary Short. Along with so many others in the doc community, I'm super happy for everyone who was nominated – even those I don't personally know – and even happier for the
Back in 2001, audiences were mesmerized by the ephemeral creations made of ice, twigs or leaves, captured poetically in Thomas Riedelsheimer's Rivers & Tides, about land artist Andy Goldsworthy. Nearly two decades later, Riedelsheimer revisits Goldsworthy, following him to various countries, as he makes art with a variety of natural materials, ranging from rocks, stone, clay, to petals and even rain. On the phone from Munich, the director spoke with Documentary about his new film, Leaning into the Wind. You made the highly acclaimed Rivers & Tides in 2001. How did you come about making your
The line that traditionally separated documentary filmmakers from journalists increasingly is becoming blurred, if not erased. As the disciplines converge, the challenge for filmmakers is to learn to navigate the professional, legal and ethical terrain that is second nature for most working journalists. The issues at stake were reinforced for Stacey Woelfel while attending last fall's Double Exposure Film Festival in Washington, DC. "There was a discussion among filmmakers—and these were not young filmmakers—asking the most basic questions that most students coming out of journalism school
It’s no small challenge to go on record to talk about your very important new job when you’ve only been at it a handful of weeks. But like everything else that comes his way, Orwa Nyrabia rose to the challenge when Documentary magazine asked him to weigh in on his new post as artistic director of the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam ( IDFA), Europe’s largest (and arguably, most important) documentary film festival and marketplace. As it frequently does whenever I speak to this highly engaged, passionate, brilliant human being, our conversation veered into broader topics surrounding
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Newly streaming at Hulu is Adam Bhala Lough's The New Radical. Uncompromising millennial radicals from the United States and the United Kingdom attack the system through dangerous technological means, which evolves into a high-stakes game with world authorities in the midst of a dramatically changing political landscape. Premiering tonight on A&E is Divided States, an original documentary series about how racial tensions and hate crimes are impacting communities in the US and
Essential Doc Reads is a weekly feature in which the IDA staff recommends recent pieces about the documentary form and its processes. Here we feature think pieces and important news items from around the Internet, and articles from the Documentary magazine archive. We hope you enjoy! The Guardian’s Charlie Phillips reflects on the power of short docs. Online distribution has offered a big boost for the visibility of documentaries, and not just feature-length ones. In recent years, the most interesting innovations in the form have often been seen in the less risk-averse short-form length
March 1, 2018 (Los Angeles, CA) - Today, the International Documentary Association and National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the University of Missouri, announced the creation of a resource guide for documentary filmmakers working on journalistic projects. The guide, “Mapping the Documentary-Journalism Landscape,” is now available on University of Missouri’s website. “When the Enterprise Fund was launched, we were committed to creating tangible documentary-journalism resources for all nonfiction storytellers,” said