Creative Inspiration
When Your Documentary Looks Like a Renaissance Painting: The Cinematography of “Honeyland”
“Visual and visceral communication draws the audience closer to the protagonists, and more importantly — closer to nature.”
Documentary Features
News and Features
The Shape and Size and Speed of Water: How “Aquarela” Advances High Frame Rate Filmmaking
Shot at 96 frames-per-second at remote locations all across the globe, “Aquarela” is a monumental new documentary about the elemental power of ice and...
Creative Inspiration
Crafting a Literal Political Thriller: Alex Gibney’s Documentary “Citizen K”
Editor Michael J. Palmer blends archival footage with newly-shot interviews for prolific filmmaker Alex Gibney’s portrait of the disgraced Russian oligarch-turned political dissident who...
How To
How Documentarian Matthew Wolf Tackled an Archive of 70,000 VHS Tapes for “Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project”
A visionary media critic and public access television host, Marion Stokes sought to create a comprehensive archive of American television that would one day...
News
Capturing Devastation: How “Anthropocene” Documents The Human Epoch
Featuring stunning landscape photography, documentary feature from the multi-award-winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky surveys a new era of...
News and Features
Video Mode: “Midnight Traveler” Captures an Intimate Vérité Story of a Family on the Run
Shot entirely on the iPhone, Hassan Fazili’s documentary feature detailing his family’s three-year journey fleeing from the Taliban in Afghanistan airs on PBS on...