We recently offered up some tips for how to incorporate archival footage into your documentary, which can really come in handy when you want to reference an event that happened in the past. But what about those times you need to represent a concept that is more abstract? Increasingly, documentarians are turning to graphic designers and animators to create sequences, images and graphs that might be difficult to depict otherwise. Don’t have aerial footage of orca pods cleverly evading their captors? Need to visually explain the growing disparity of income inequality since the 1950s? It might be
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The Locarno International Film Festival combines a spectacular lakeside setting in Switzerland, near the Italian border, and an easy-going resort vibe with an eclectic program of provocative films. The third oldest festival in Europe—this year was its 66th edition—and better known there than in the US, Locarno has a diverse mix of innovative and traditional film that draws locals, international film enthusiasts and industry pros. The city takes it all in good spirits: Shop windows, trash cans and rentable bicycles flash the leopard spots of the festival's symbol, and residents turn out in
'First Cousin Once Removed' airs September 23 on HBO.
'Latino Americans,' a three-part series, airs Tuesdays, September 17 through October 1, on PBS.
Jacob Kornbluth's 'Inequality for All' opens the IDA Documentary Screening Series on September 26.
The IDA is thrilled to announce the initial slate of films for its IDA Documentary Screening Series. Launching September 26 at The Landmark Theater with Inequality for All, the series will screen some of the year’s best documentaries followed by Q&A discussions with filmmakers, moderated by IDA’s Media Partners Dana Harris, Editor-in-Chief of Indiewire and Jon Wiener, Contributing Editor of The Nation, as well as Matt Holzman of KCRW. The Q&As will be recorded and made available on documentary.org, on the IDA’s YouTube Channel, and will be shared by the filmmakers and moderators. "The IDA
'Our Nixon' premieres in theaters August 30 through Cinedigm.
American journalism education has changed considerably since the days of Tom Paine, John Peter Zenger and Isaiah Thomas, when a would-be reporter like Thomas could learn to read by setting type after being apprenticed to a printer at the age of six. Professional training arrived in the United States when the first journalism school was established at the University of Missouri in 1908, and the debate on where journalists should be educated—in the newsroom or on the university campus—has continued ever since. Of course, even in journalism schools there's no universal agreement on just what
As director of the Sundance Institute's Documentary Film Program and Fund (DFP), Cara Mertes oversaw the organization's largest initiative, and worked tirelessly to expand its funding sources and reach. In September, she joins the Ford Foundation as director of its JustFilms program. During her seven-year tenure at Sundance, she expanded and strengthened the DFP's partnerships, linking up with the Skoll Foundation, Good Pitch/Channel Four/BRITDOC Foundation, TED, the Hilton Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, among others. Additionally, she focused on international