Category: Film & TV

  • Doc Filmmakers Reckon With the Industry’s Murky Ethics

    The Documentary World’s Identity Crisis

    The Documentary World’s Identity Crisis

    The boom — or glut — in streaming documentaries has sparked a reckoning among filmmakers and their subjects.

    via Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/article/tv-documentaries-ethical-standards.html

    Documentary-making has never been ethically pure or entirely subjective. (“I’m working on a project that is the kind of documentary where you do six takes of the person putting a boat in the water to get the right one,” one editor told me.) Every shot and every cut is a choice, and even its practitioners have never agreed on whether the medium is closer to journalism or to cinema. One of the earliest popular documentaries, Robert Flaherty’s 1922 film, Nanook of the North, was about a man supposedly living in the Canadian tundra, untouched by the wider world — and it was full of lies. Nanook’s real name was Allakariallak. His wife in the film wasn’t his wife. (She was, according to another local, one of Flaherty’s multiple wives.) Allakariallak hunted with a gun, but that didn’t fit the story Flaherty wanted to tell, so the director asked him to use a harpoon. In defense of his methods, Flaherty said, “One often has to distort a thing in order to catch its true spirit.”

  • ‘You Are Not A Soldier’: Watch Clip Of Hot Docs Film About André Liohn – Deadline

    ‘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 Film

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    Fill The Frame, directed by Tim Huynh, follows eight contemporary New York street photographers and why the art inspires them.
  • Documentary ‘One Shot’ Details How Olympics Photographers Capture Iconic Moments

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    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

    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

    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

    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.”
  • Juxtapoz Magazine – JR & Elliott Erwitt: Watch a Special Double-Bill Virtual Cinema Screening of Documentary Photography Films

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    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.
  • ‘Shooting the Mafia’ review: Passionate portrait of Letizia Battaglia – Los Angeles Times

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    ‘Shooting the Mafia’ review: Passionate portrait of Letizia Battaglia – Los Angeles Times

    “The camera changed my life,” says Italian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, the incredibly compelling subject of veteran documentarian Kim Longinotto’s “Shooting the Mafia.” Before Battaglia picked up a camera at age 40, she was a teenage bride who raised three daughters and endured a rocky marriage. When she walked into the local newspaper in her hometown of Palermo, Sicily, looking for work, she found her calling as a photojournalist, chronicling the Mafia War in Sicily and its high-profile trials.

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – The Art of Warez Documents the Lost ANSI Art Scene

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – The Art of Warez Documents the Lost ANSI Art Scene

    British artist-filmmaker Oliver Payne and American painter Kevin Bouton-Scott have joined forces to produce a new documentary that tells an almost forgotten story of the ANSI scene. The Art Of Warez covers the days before the Internet when early hackers and online pirates created an original and, even today, a virtually unknown art movement.

  • Boris Lojkine on Late Photographer: ‘I Felt Very Close’ to ‘Camille’ – Variety

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    Boris Lojkine on Late Photographer: ‘I Felt Very Close’ to ‘Camille’ – Variety

    It was only after Lepage’s death that her story caught the attention of French filmmaker Boris Lojkine, whose sophomore narrative feature, “Camille,” will have its world premiere on the Piazza Grande during the Locarno Film Festival. Starring Nina Meurisse and based on extensive research with Lepage’s family, friends and colleagues, the film is both a moving coming-of-age story about a young photographer finding her artistic voice and a thoughtful exploration of the ethical challenges faced by war photographers in foreign lands.

  • Combat Obscura: Why the Marine Corps doesn’t want you to see this new documentary – The Washington Post

    Combat Obscura: Why the Marine Corps doesn’t want you to see this new documentary – The Washington Post

    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.

  • What made Marie Colvin one of the world’s greatest war reporters?

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    What made Marie Colvin one of the world’s greatest war reporters?

    We speak to director Matthew Heineman about A Private War: his new film that pays tribute to the legendary journalist’s life. ‘If there was anything she was addicted to, it was the desire to tell these stories. I think if she felt no one else was going to do it, then she had to.’

  • Harold Feinstein: America’s forgotten photographer

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    Harold Feinstein: America’s forgotten photographer

    Despite being regarded as one of the “true American photographers”, the New Yorker evaded fame and fortune for most of his life. Now, a new documentary is shining a light on his incredible story.

  • Film Follows Photographer Jay Maisel’s Move from His $55M NYC Studio

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    Film Follows Photographer Jay Maisel’s Move from His $55M NYC Studio

    In 1966, photographer Jay Maisel spent $102,000 buying a 6-floor, 35,000-square-foot, 72-room building in New York City that would become his home and studio for the next half-century. In 2015, he sold the building for $55 million. Now a new documentary film is offering an inside look at the artist’s final days inside the one-of-a-kind space.

  • You can now watch the entire “Everybody Street” documentary film for free on YouTube and Amazon Prime Video – Leica Rumors

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    You can now watch the entire “Everybody Street” documentary film for free on YouTube and Amazon Prime Video – Leica Rumors

    The full length “Everybody Street” documentary film is now available on YouTube (with ads). You can also stream it for free on Amazon Prime Video (or purchase the DVD from Amazon):

  • Avoiding the Pitfalls of Adapting Stories Based on Real Life, with Rona Edwards – Film Independent

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    Avoiding the Pitfalls of Adapting Stories Based on Real Life, with Rona Edwards – Film Independent

    Movies are a mosaic of moving parts. But we don’t always see which parts, or who’s moving them. Each month in Detail Oriented, Su Fang Tham explores some of the more specialized areas—and career paths—related to film production.

  • ‘Under the Wire’ Review: Portrait of a War Reporter – The New York Times

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    ‘Under the Wire’ Review: Portrait of a War Reporter – The New York Times

    Piggybacking on the recent release of the based-on-real-life drama “A Private War,” “Under the Wire” — sewn together from on-the-spot footage and interviews with colleagues — drops us into conflict zones with disorienting immediacy. Our primary guide is Paul Conroy, the plain-spoken British photographer who partnered with Colvin and was severely injured in the 2012 rocket attack in Syria that killed her and another reporter outright.

  • Review: In ‘Under the Wire,’ war photographer Paul Conroy bears witness to a terrible loss – Los Angeles Times

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    Review: In ‘Under the Wire,’ war photographer Paul Conroy bears witness to a terrible loss – Los Angeles Times

    The recent biopic “A Private War” explores the interiority of war correspondent Marie Colvin’s life. But the documentary “Under the Wire,” featuring Colvin’s colleague, photojournalist Paul Conroy, painstakingly details Colvin’s final days before her death while reporting from Homs, Syria, in February 2012.

  • Jay Maisel – Jay Myself – A Documentary – Luminous Landscape

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    Jay Maisel – Jay Myself – A Documentary – Luminous Landscape

    However, this is not what this article is about.  It’s about Stephen Wilkes a very well known photographer who has also been an inspiration to me and many of my photographer friends. When Stephen learned that Jay was going to move out of this incredible building, he set out to tell the story of Jay and how this amazing piece of property grew into a legendary location.