‘You Are Not A Soldier’: Watch Clip Of Hot Docs Film About War Photographer André Liohn
Brazilian production and distribution outfit Elo Company has unveiled a first look at their new documentary feature You Are Not A Soldier, which will have its world premiere at Hot Docs this week
Fill The Frame, directed by Tim Huynh, follows eight contemporary New York street photographers and why the art inspires them.
The Olympic games are the peak of international sports photography and the images photographers can capture there are timeless and iconic, long outliving the photographer and the subject. This 30-minute documentary explores the role photographers have in capturing that history.
The Life and Times of War Reporter Robert Fisk
If you want a great primer on Fisk, who recently passed away, look to the documentary This is Not a Movie.
Exposing Rodrigo Duterte’s War on the Free Press
“It all goes back to Silicon Valley,” Ressa adds. A Thousand Cuts follows the Philippines 2019 legislative elections, when for the first time in 80 years, the opposition failed to secure even a single seat. It illuminates the Duterte government’s use of propaganda and social media to lie to their citizens, obscuring what many of them know to be the truth. This “post-truth” reality is one many people are now far too familiar with, even outside the Philippines. “When Facebook sells our most vulnerable data to the highest bidder, we no more have facts to hold each other accountable by. Accountability from the tech companies is a prerequisite to claim our democracies back. You do not have democracy if you don’t have facts,” Ressa asserts. In one scene, Duterte tells a Rappler journalist, “You will be allowed to criticize us. But you will go to jail for your crimes.” I was immediately reminded of the likes of Gauri Lankesh and Vikram Joshi, journalists back home in India who were murdered for speaking out against the country’s Hindu nationalist government.
The Documentarian Who Secured Rare Footage of Helmut Newton at Work
Director Gero von Boehm discusses The Bad and the Beautiful, his new film about the “King of Kink.”
For your holiday weekend and beyond, Juxtapoz Magazine is excited to host a double-billed virtual cinema screening of two documentary photography films: Tasha Van Zandt’s ONE THOUSAND STORIES: THE MAKING OF A MURAL featuring Winter 2020 cover artist JR and Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu’s ELLIOTT ERWITT – SILENCE SOUNDS GOOD featuring Iconic NY Photographer Elliott Erwitt. The films will be available as a double-screening HERE from July 3rd through July 17 for $9.99.
Lagoze found himself in a murky gray area of free speech and fair-use government products. U.S. citizens can already go on Pentagon-operated sites and download free military photos and video. Their tax dollars fund it, and federal government creations are not protected by copyright.
