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indiewire.com /1 month ago

‘Not Saying That Verité Is Dead’: How Documentaries Take Advantage of a World So Aware of the Camera

The creators and filmmakers behind standout documentary and nonfiction contenders from this Emmys season discuss with IndieWire the benefits of using footage their subjects shot th...

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rogerebert.com /3 weeks ago

Tribeca 2026: The Documentaries

On the documentaries of this year's Tribeca Film Festival.

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iso.500px.com /1 month ago

Ernesto Now: 500px Photographer Spotlight

Ernesto, known to the streets and his digital community as Buda, does not consider himself a traditional artist. His work is a visceral rejection of the polished and staged. He vie...

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creativeboom.com /1 month ago

Documenting the last generation of teenagers to grow up in an analogue world

Tracking Line is a new series by Paris duo Souffle that pays tribute to the early 2000s, not as an aesthetic but as a vanishing set of gestures and motions. We find out more about...

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filmthreat.com /1 month ago

From Soviet Archives to Nazi Rail Lines: The Films of Maciej Drygas

There is a kind of filmmaker who trusts that the truth is already out there — buried in basements, sealed in government... The post From Soviet Archives to Nazi Rail Lines: The Fil...

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rnz.co.nz /1 month ago

Film festival combines with photo exhibition to document our lives

The story of how a Kiwi father has been caring for his daughter with developmental disabilities and a photo series of a Chinese woman giving birth at the age of 60 are among stunni...

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rogerebert.com /4 weeks ago

What the 2025 Federal Arts Cuts Mean for Documentary Filmmaking

A report on what recent cuts during Trump 2.0 have done to documentary filmmaking.

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cartoonbrew.com /4 weeks ago

Sweeping New Documentary ‘Walking With Animators’ Explores The People Behind The Craft Of Animation (EXCLUSIVE TRAILER)

Filmmakers Alexandre Poncet and Gilles Penso assemble a vast portrait of the medium through dozens of artists, studios, and educators.

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npr.org /1 month ago

Photos show the world's 'uncounted' people -- and what it takes to be counted

Colombian-American photographer and filmmaker Juan Arredondo turns his lens on the people of the world who do not have birth and death certificates — and how these vital records ar...

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cartoonbrew.com /1 month ago

Before Pixar, There Was ‘The Works’: A Lost Chapter In The History Of Computer Animation

YouTube documentary captures the experimentation and heartbreak of early computer graphics at the 1970s New York Institute of Technology.

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danielharper.org /1 month ago

David Hockney

Sometime in the mid 1980s, I bought a remaindered copy of David Hockney’s book Cameraworks (Alfred A. Knopf, 1984). The title was an obvious nod to the photography periodical Camer...

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firehouse.com /6 days ago

Documentary Focused on Poor Fire Station Conditions to Premiere in Worcester, MA

Filmmaker Tommy Dwyer, rooted in a family of firefighters, sheds light on the physical and mental toll of firefighters from conditions in aging fire stations in "Burnin' Down the H...

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filmthreat.com /3 weeks ago

Shoot the People

NOW IN THEATERS! Andy Mundy-Castle’s documentary, Shoot the People, follows photographer and activist Misan Harriman as he travels the world capturing images... The post Shoot the...

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theguardian.com /1 week ago

The Story of Documentary Film (The 1980s) review – Mark Cousins educates and intrigues once more

Karlovy Vary film festivalThe film-maker and critic traces a decade of documentaries, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to Michael Moore, via Klaus Barbie and The WomblesThe unmista...

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mcsweeneys.net /1 month ago

McSweeney’s Books: An Excerpt from Our New Book, Documentary Now!

- - -McSweeney’s and Broadway Video present the official over-six-hundred-page comprehensive companion book to IFC’s Documentary Now!, made with the assistance of series directors...

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tvtonight.com.au /1 month ago

DocPlay: AFTRS First Cut showcase

Five new documentary short films directed by AFTRS post-graduate students screen in June.

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aljazeera.com /4 weeks ago

Tehran War Diary: Shooting war at home

An internationally acclaimed photojournalist in Iran turns his lens on his own city, as Tehran comes under bombardment.

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petapixel.com /1 month ago

Before the Frame: A Filmmaker’s Approach to Street Photography

Six in the morning on the Brooklyn Bridge, and New York City is something it rarely is. It is quiet. Not empty, but quiet. Dan Aragon is standing on the walkway watching the light...

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

August Sander’s Enormous Attempt to Capture a Lost World

In “People of the 20th Century,” the photographer set out to document every type and profession in the fading epoch of prewar Germany.

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bbc.com /1 month ago

Childhood trauma common theme in documentary - Frampton

It is the first time television cameras have been given this sort of access and the result is Carl Frampton: On Probation.

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petapixel.com /1 month ago

New Film Will Chronicle the Life and Work of Brazilian Photographer Claudia Andujar

A new biopic will focus on the life and work of photographer Claudia Andujar, best known for documenting the Yanomami people, one of Brazil’s largest indigenous peoples. [Read More...

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indiefilmhustle.com /1 week ago

IFH 862: The Filmmaker Who Turned Failure Into a Feature Film with Mark Phillips

Some documentaries begin with years of research, development meetings, financing plans, and carefully structured production schedules. Others begin because someone gets locked out...

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hollywoodreporter.com /1 month ago

How Leslie Iwerks Turned 200 Hours of Silent Footage Into ‘Disneyland Handcrafted’

The director explains how she restored sound and used archival film to build a race-against-the-clock narrative about the 1954-1955 construction of the theme park.

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elnacional.com /3 weeks ago

Continúa gira internacional del documental sobre Óscar Pérez

La producción entrelaza archivos íntimos grabados por el propio protagonista con declaraciones exclusivas de su entorno cercano, buscando descifrar la faceta humana detrás del pers...

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