A battle is brewing between victims and filmmakers over the use of crime stories for documentary films and reality television. Victims/survivors are
Ethics
The Sundance Film Festival is an amazing, wild ride, with so many screenings, panels and events taking place simultaneously that it's tough to choose
by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Alfred Hitchcock said, "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." As two filmmakers who take years to complete each
La Etica Dentro de la Vida Salvaje: Documentalistas de la Naturaleza Necesitan un Codigo de Conducta
The Spanish translation of Chris Palmer's essay.
The late philosopher/deconstructionist Jacques Derrida once referred to the animal species as the "ends of man...an existence that refuses to be
Until we become parents, our own parents are those mythical, mystical authority figures whom we have only known as authority figures. Your parents
As an 11-year old in 1958, I watched the Disney film White Wilderness. We see a cute little bear cub lose its footing on a steep, snow-covered
The use of re-enactment in documentary is as old as the form itself, yet it remains persistently controversial, and there is nothing else that better
As primetime television continues to phase out scripted fare in favor of more inexpensively produced "reality" programming, and as documentaries
On Monday, November 16, filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña will be in conversation with Turner Classic Movies' Ben Mankiewicz to discuss her decades-long