- 'Patti Smith: Dream of Life' Premieres at Sundance
Steven Sebrings‘s film Patti Smith: Dream of Life premiered at Sundance on Sunday. Steven is a fashion photographer and he has been working on the film for the past twelve years since meeting Patti on a shoot for Spin magazine. Shot entirely on 16mm (unheard of these days), the film is an impressionistic portrait of […]
- 'Nerakhoon (The Betrayal)' Premieres at Sundance
Filmmakers Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath premiered their film, Nerakhoon (The Betrayal), earlier today at the Sundance Film Festival. The film chronicles the epic story of a family forced to emigrate from Laos after the chaos of the secret air war waged by the U.S. during the Vietnam War. Kuras has spent the last 23 […]
- UNICEF Photo of the Year Award – Stephanie Sinclair
Freelance photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair has won the 2007 UNICEF photo of the year award for her striking portrait of a 40-year-man and his 11-year-old bride in Afghanistan. Portrait of soon to be wed Faiz Mohammed, 40, and Ghulam Haider, 11, at her home in a rural village of Damarda in Ghor province © Stephanie Sinclair […]
- Doc Roundup: November 30, 2007
The Film Independent’s 2008 Spirit Award nominees were announced on Tuesday, and quite a few of the docs (in both the Best Documentary category and the Truer Than Fiction category) are already available on DVD. Here’s your chance to check out some of the nominated films well before the winners are announced on February 23, […]
- Doc Roundup: October 25th, 2007
This week’s new docs all seem to focus on already well-known figures. Incidentally, all of them happen to be white men… Jonathan Demme’s Jimmy Carter Man From Plains followed the former president during his book tour for Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” an accordingly to most critics, portrays Carter in the most flattering of lights. The […]
- Media Guide: Documentary Photography
For this week’s media guide, we take a look at documentary photography. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then shouldn’t powerful, affecting photographs be able to change the world? Here are some places to start browsing for photographs which are both moving and provocative. Some of these photos showcase situations in the news, […]