April 12, 2016
By shining a light on what is becoming an increasingly dynamic relationship between the documentary filmmaking and journalism worlds, two recent
Festivals
April 1, 2016
The 34th annual CAAMFest, produced and presented by the San Francisco-based Center for Asian American Media, blew into the Bay Area, along with some long-awaited rainstorms that tossed our umbrellas up and down the streets of Chinatown, the Mission and Oakland. And in the warm and dry screening venues around town, CAAMFest proved what it does best: showcasing documentaries about Asians and Asian Americans.
March 24, 2016
I knew I had found a place in the documentary world that I could call home when, on the Friday night of the True/False Film Fest (March 3 – 6) in
March 17, 2016
At SXSW this year, you could find great pleasure in films at two extremes of the commercially viable spectrum: the idiosyncratic passion project at
March 3, 2016
"Quality over quantity." If you were a documentary filmmaker attending the 18th annual Realscreen Summit in Washington, DC earlier this month, that
March 7, 2016
History is often fragmented, patched with fictions and intricate inconsistencies. This year's International Forum of New Cinema—in short, the Forum —
December 17, 2015
Focus on Documentary's Social Impact at the 2015 International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
For documentary filmmakers, strategists, funders, broadcasters, buyers—and of course, fans— November means the International Documentary Festival
December 1, 2015
IDFA’s DocLab conference and exhibit, coordinated by Caspar Sonnen , intersects with IDFA ’s cornucopia of international documentary only
November 13, 2015
"We want to challenge our audience… and to surprise it," says Leena Pasanen, who took the helm as director of the International Leipzig Festival for
November 4, 2015
Despite being one of the oldest documentary film festivals in the US, the recently concluded United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) was a