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BlogsFactual News Julia Scott-Stevenson 10 Feb 2012
Advance an Australian Documentary
Continuing the Australian film industry’s navel-gazing tendencies, a documentary about the industry’s waning fortunes is being developed. Advance Australian Film by Courtney Dawson is hoping to get to the heart of why Australian films rarely draw big audiences to the cinema, and Dawson wants input from industry members and the general public.
In Depth Julia Scott-Stevenson 9 Feb 2012
Expanding Documentary
This is a must-watch for anyone interested in interactive and collaborative documentary. Professor Jon Dovey, of the Digital Cultures Research Centre in the UK, gave a keynote speech to the Expanding Documentary conference I went to last December in Auckland, and it’s now available to view online. Dovey has a wealth of stories, thoughts and ideas to share around how online documentary can be a collaborative effort and also the technological innovations occurring that are relevant to this.
Factual News Julia Scott-Stevenson 8 Feb 2012
Paradise Lost (Trilogy) screening in Melbourne
The Oscar-nominated documentary, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, will screen at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne in March, accompanied by the first two films in the trilogy. The films’ director, Joe Berlinger, will be in Melbourne for the Australian premiere of the third film, and will be holding a Q&A after its screening.
Factual News Kylie Boltin 3 Feb 2012
Director of Gasland arrested
The director of the Oscar-nominated Gasland, Josh Fox, was arrested on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., this week. He was charged with unlawful entry after trying to film a hearing in the House Energy and Environment subcommittee called to examine the EPA's findings on fracturing fluids, the subject of his 2010 documentary.
Factual News Julia Scott-Stevenson 3 Feb 2012
AIDC launches a packed program
The upcoming Australian International Documentary Conference has released its program, and there is a host of fascinating sessions, screenings and panels to get your teeth into. For a start, the conference has seven keynote speakers including Nick Fraser of BBC’s Storyville, Al Jazeera’s Mostafa Nagy, and Chairman of the National Film Board of Canada, Tom Perimutter.
Factual News Kylie Boltin 2 Feb 2012
New York's MoMA hosts doco events
New York's Museum of Modern Art will host two documentary events in February - the 11th annual Documentary Fortnight 2012 and Oscar’s Docs, 1950–87: Creative Expression, the Museum’s collaboration with Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Quicklink Kylie Boltin 2 Feb 2012
Naomi Wolf’s lessons from Sundance
In her recent Guardian column, writer and activist Naomi Wolf discusses What the Occupy movement must learn from Sundance.
Factual News Kylie Boltin 1 Feb 2012
Sundance winners announced
The 2012 Sundance Film Festival has wrapped. The closing weekend awards ceremony saw some spectacular wins in the U.S. Documentary Competition and World Cinema Documentary Competition. Here is a full list of documentary winners, including audience awards.
Top Ten Craig Mathieson 1 Feb 2012
Top 10 Sport Documentaries
Sports and those who play them confound our expectations: mastery is a matter of millimeters and moments, ego is a necessary but misunderstood trait, and the significance of achievement can stretch beyond the individual or team to encompass an entire country. In retrospect, the past two decades have been a golden age for sport documentaries – just look at 1994! – and this list of the 10 best is happily situated within those years, a time when some of the form’s finest directors examined how sporting endeavour can transcend, for better or worse, so many of life’s limitations.
Festival Reports Michelle Orange 31 Jan 2012
Notes from Sundance, Part 5: Good Vs. “Good” in Documentary
Two of this year’s Sundance panels functioned as companion pieces, and together they formed a unique look at how contemporary documentaries get made. The first, called “How Documentary Changed Change” featured Robert Redford, BBC/Storyville commissioning editor Nick Fraser and president of HBO Documentary Films Sheila Nevins talking in theory about what was evidenced in practice across the second panel, “Celebrating Stories of Change.”
Festival Reports Michelle Orange 30 Jan 2012
Notes from Sundance, Part 4: On respecting your elder statesmen and women
Film writer Michelle Orange is in Park City, Utah, for the Sundance Film Festival, where she'll seek out the latest documentary events and news.
Q&A Kylie Boltin 30 Jan 2012
Steve James interview, Part 2
Steve James' latest documentary, The Interrupters, topped many critics' best-of-2011 lists. Here is the second part of Kylie Boltin's talk with James about the inspiration for the film and the challenges of observational filmmaking. Part 1 is here.
Festival Reports Michelle Orange 27 Jan 2012
Notes from Sundance, Part 3: Documentary, Po’sploitation, and the Fall of Detroit
Film writer Michelle Orange is in Park City, Utah, for the Sundance Film Festival, where she'll seek out the latest documentary events and news.
In Depth Julia Scott-Stevenson 27 Jan 2012
Interactive doco for dummies
For those taking their first tentative steps towards making an interactive documentary, Klynt is one of the latest tools. Klynt enables users to create an interactive documentary incorporating a range of media - video, stills, text, audio, content pulled from the web, and hyperlinks. The interface is straightforward enough for anyone with reasonable Mac skills to be able to use, there’s not a line of code in sight.
Factual News Kylie Boltin 27 Jan 2012
Jackson and Berg talk West of Memphis
At Sundance, producer Peter Jackson and director Amy Berg talk to the Hollywood Reporter about their new documentary 'West of Memphis' and the new evidence they included at the very last minute.
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