The Ethics of Documentary Mar/Apr 2006
Can we establish standards for an ethical documentary practice?
While most attention at this time of year is focused on the Academy Award nominees, they're not the only awards handed out that honor documentaries.
This past December, former IDA Board Member Marina Goldovskaya received the 2005 Laurel Prize, the Lifetime Achievement Award for the Art of
Legendary documentary maker Frederick Wiseman received an Award of Distinction from the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) at the 20th Annual
And the winners are..."March of the Penguins" and "A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin."
At $1,200 for two days, not counting workshops, RealScreen Summit ("Bringing The Best in Non-Fiction Together") doesn't exactly put out the welcome- The public's insatiable appetite for "reality" entertainment is transforming the market for documentary talent. Even professionals with the purest
The sit-down strike of 27 prisoners at the Presidio Army Stockade following the killing of a prisioner by a guard. From Zeiger's Sir! No Sir! .
From Mighty Time Volume 2: The Children's March . Courtesy of Tell the Truth Pictures Can we establish standards for an ethical documentary practice
On Jeff Feurzeig's 'The Devil and Daniel Johnston.'
Doc-makers weigh on on where reality TV might be heading.
Checking out the 2005 AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival.
Lt. Robert Drew and war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Poster for Robert Drew's From Two Men and a War . Photo: Drew Associates Almost 50 years after
Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani's 'The Devil's Miner.'
From Adan Aliaga's My Grandmother's House , which won the VPRO Joris Ivens Award for best feature at the 2005 IDFA Last November, as Americans were
From Kevin Macdonald's 2004 film Touching the Void , the only documentary to have won any of the top Orange British Academy Film Awards in the past
From the film Massacre at Mystic , of the year 1637, when the Pequots in New England were the strongest Native American group in the region. Part of
On DocuWeeks, DocuDay and the Academy Awards.