This past week has been an exceedingly busy one for both documentary news and nonfiction film releases. To help motivate you to catch up, we’ve put together a documentary summer bingo sheet (see below, download and share). Thanks to its debut on Apple+ over the weekend, I’m happy to finally get to cross off Boys State from […]
With the Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo facing dire circumstances, along with the suicides of both British filmmaker Richard Bright and documentary subject Daisy Coleman, of Audrie and Daisy, it’s been a fairly grim week in nonfiction cinema news. That said, there have been significant steps made toward diversifying nonfiction production talent, there are a ton […]
Monday Memo: TIFF & Venice Lineups Unveiled, Universal & AMC Shorten Theatrical Window, 2020 Primetime Emmy Nominations Announced
Monday Memo: Doc Editor Jonathan Oppenheim Dies at 67, Maysles Doc Center Launches Online Series, TIFF to Open With Spike Lee/ David Byrne Concert Doc
Monday Memo: Tiger Production Controversy Breaks Out Over Representation, Telluride Cancelled Due to COVID19 & IDFA Forms Filmmaker Support Department
Somehow I missed Sonya Childress and Natalie Bullock Brown’s call for accountability published in Documentary Magazine last week, so I wanted to make up for it by leading off with that excellent read this week. On the same topic, in an op-ed published yesterday filmmaker Stanley Nelson outlined why we need black filmmakers to tell the […]
At this point, it’s been 119 days since I’ve sat in a dark movie theater and taken in a film with a crowd of strangers, and I have serious doubts about when I will be willing and able to again. It’s strange and sad, and yet there are much worse things to be worrying about. That said, thanks to […]
As the number of cases of COVID19 continue to skyrocket once again here in the states, some folks are still debating the risks of going out to the movies (check out Jason Bailey’s interview with Dr. Robert Lahita on the topic). Elsewhere, The Documentary Life podcast and The D-Word have announced a partnership, Sunny Side […]
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It almost feels like a cliché at this point to say that we are living through unprecedented times, but with each passing week for the last couple of months now it really does feel like we are walking deeper and deeper into uncharted territory. And while COVID-19 remains a very real, unpredictable threat, the press and […]