News: Oscars for ‘Inocente’ and ‘Sugar Man,’ Indie Spirit for ‘The Invisible War,’ Legal Win for ‘Central Park Five’
Here is the latest documentary news from the past week: Everyone already knows that Searching for Sugar Man won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature last night, while Inocente picked up the Oscar for Best Documentary Short. But you might not know that both films are readily available for anyone who hasn’t seen them yet. Sugar Man, in addition …
Read MoreWatch: ‘We Will Forget’ Follows a Doomsday Prophet to “The End”
Outside of Y2K and Ghostbusters II, New Year’s Eve isn’t necessarily a time we think about the end of the world. But today does mark the end of something, so I thought it a good time to share a new short film about one man’s prediction of the Rapture by way of coded messages in the Bible (it would have …
Read MoreDOC NYC Trailer (and 2 Clips): "Persistence of Vision" is a Must-See Documentary for Fans of Animation
You may not recall the animated feature from the 1990s called Arabian Knight, even under its other titles, The Thief and the Cobbler and The Princess and the Cobbler. And if you do remember it, you likely viewed its existence as a cheap Aladdin knockoff aimed straight for video. In truth, the film was in the works since 1965 and …
Read MoreDOC NYC Trailer: "Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey With Mumia Abu-Jamal"
With the 3rd annual DOC NYC Documentary Film Festival kicking off this Thursday, I’d like to present trailers for some of the films you should look out for, probably one per day like I did during the Toronto Film Festival. Here we have a fresh look at Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey With Mumia Abu-Jamal, which screens in the American …
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