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CHANGING NTSC FORMAT TO PALby NDE on May 26, 2022
I recently advised on a “TV hour” for Judith Ehrlich, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker who needed a 52-minute version of her latest masterpiece, “The Boys Who Said NO!” for international television sales. My job was to paper edit (make […]
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Documentary Filmmaking With Canon Cinema EOS Camerasby Yossy Mendelovich on May 26, 2022
Veteran documentary filmmaker Neal Broffman shares with is his experience and knowledge when shooting the four-part series Wasteland (produced for CBS and available on Paramount+). This complex job was done with the help of Canon Cinema EOS cameras. […]
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‘Every day was an ethical quandary’: telling the difficult story of XXXTentacionby Radheyan Simonpillai on May 26, 2022
The late rapper, who was killed at the age of 20, was known for both his captivating music and a history of violence, a troubling legacy explored in a new documentaryIn one of many chilling scenes in the XXXTentacion documentary Look at Me, the […]
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‘Always a possibility of change’: incarcerated teens seek justice as adultsby David Smith in Washington on May 26, 2022
Harsh sentencing in the US has led to many economically deprived young men receiving hard-to-contest life sentences but in new documentary Since I Been Down, hope awaitsAt 1.30pm on Friday 8 July, Kimonti Carter will learn whether he must spend the […]
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Screen Time: Week of May 23, 2022by Bedatri D. Choudhury on May 25, 2022
May 25, 2022 Screen Time: Week of May 23, 2022 Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Read more
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Extra: Sky fund for doc shorts; Woodcut closes sales on Fukushima docby Andrew Tracy on May 25, 2022
Sky Documentaries unveils documentary shorts fund Sky Documentaries has launched its first documentary shorts fund, which aims to champion directors from underrepresented backgrounds. The fund, in partnership with APX Content Ventures, will […]
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A&E to air two-part doc on Black comedy from Hartbeat, Time Studiosby Andrew Jeffrey on May 25, 2022
The evolution of Black comedy in the U.S., and its efforts to challenge injustice, will be the center of an upcoming two-part documentary from the A&E Network. Airing on June 29 …Read More
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Film Independent announces 2022 Documentary Lab fellows and projectsby Andrew Tracy on May 25, 2022
Film Independent, the non-profit behind the annual Film Independent Spirit Awards, has revealed the list of fellows and projects selected to participate in its 2022 Documentary Lab. Funded by the National …Read More
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“The Way the Janes Approached This, One Woman at a Time, Helped 11,000 Women Get Safe Abortion Care”: Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes on “The Janes”by Lauren Wissot on May 25, 2022
The Janes, which closes this year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival in-person May 26, followed by an HBO premiere June 8, is one woefully prescient walk down pre-Roe memory lane. Directed by Academy Award nominee Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water, […]
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Sending Aya back: the Syrian teen facing deportation in Denmark – documentaryby Michael Graversen, Jesper Jack, Annie Kelly, Ekaterina Ochagavia and Lindsay Poulton on May 25, 2022
Aya, a Syrian teenager in Denmark, is threatened with deportation to a place she cannot remember. Denmark has begun trying to send back refugees from Damascus, claiming the city is now safe under the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad. Aya’s brothers […]
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IDA Documentary Awards Team Shares What Submitters Need to Know for 2022by Kristal Sotomayor on May 24, 2022
May 24, 2022 IDA Documentary Awards Team Shares What Submitters Need to Know for 2022 By KRISTAL SOTOMAYOR and EDDIE Hustleby Read more
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Director Gia Coppola partners with XTR, Aggregate for doc on boy-band fandomby Andrew Tracy on May 24, 2022
Director Gia Coppola and her prodco Detour have partnered with non-fiction studio XTR, and Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan’s Aggregate Films for a feature-length doc about boy-band fandom, which is …Read More
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Elizabeth: A Portrait in Parts review – dutiful platinum celebration is a tepid cup of teaby Peter Bradshaw on May 24, 2022
Roger Michell’s blandly tasteful documentary uses found footage to trace the Queen’s reign, hitting all the familiar landmarks without creating oneThe late Roger Michell’s final film has now been posthumously released. It is a blandly tasteful […]
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‘Moonage Daydream’ Review: A David Bowie Documentary as Dynamic as the Man Himselfby Kate Erbland on May 24, 2022
Cannes: Brett Morgen captures Ziggy Stardust through archival footage and blaring sound.
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Moonage Daydream review – glorious, shapeshifting eulogy to David Bowieby Peter Bradshaw on May 24, 2022
Brett Morgen’s intimate montage of the uniquely influential artist celebrates his career, creativity and unfailing charmBrett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream is a 140-minute shapeshifting epiphany-slash-freakout leading to the revelation that, yes, […]
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Lancaster review – wartime tales from the men who flew the bombersby Cath Clarke on May 24, 2022
Charles Dance narrates this detailed history of the Lancaster bomber, which doesn’t shy away from the brutal realities of warAfter their feature-length documentary Spitfire, David Fairhead and Ant Palmer return with a wartime history of the […]
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The Natural History of Destruction review – a harrowing account of aerial warfareby Peter Bradshaw on May 24, 2022
Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s strikes a moral equivalence between the British and Germans in a second world war documentary that offers no clear conclusion Unnatural, in fact. Sergei Loznitsa, the Ukrainian film director whose brilliant […]
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Gia Coppola Helming Doc on Boy Band Fandom History, from BTS to New Kids on the Blockby Chris Lindahl on May 23, 2022
“superfans: screaming. crying. throwing up.” looks at the major social and economic power of boy band fans.
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