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Eloquent and poetic yet devastatingly real, The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) is a deeply moving, personal film culminating from two decades of ideas and images created by Ellen Kuras, ASC ( 4 Little Girls; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), who began working on the project at the dawn of her career. She is the producer, director and cinematographer of the 96-minute documentary. The Betrayal takes the audience on a harrowing journey with the Phrasavath family from Laos, which was split asunder at the end of the Vietnam War. The father had fought on the US side, which made the family targets for

You don't have to make a doc about the environment to do something good for it.

I first saw Agnès Varda's 1982 short documentary Ulysses several years ago, and was instantly struck by its simplicity and power. Varda revisits a haunting photograph that she had taken on a beach in Calais, France in 1954 and investigates its significance in her life and the lives of the models she had chosen. In the top left corner of the picture, a naked man stands on the shore with his back to us. At his feet sits a boy of 6 or 7, his face turned towards the camera. Balancing out the composition on the bottom right corner is the body of a goat with its eyes wide open. Varda's interviews

Twelve docs, five days, one bird poop.

Some post-Sundance pick-ups.

How have you used material from DVDs for fair use purposes?

"Record companies need to embrace the future."

"What a week...Now this. Wow!"

Fair use laws for documentary filmmakers may change.

Tom DiCillo's debut doc fails to break on through.