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Posted Jan 27, 2011, by Eric Hynes
Q&A: Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times
In documentaries as in life, there are few things as fascinating as a world in flux. For Page One: A Year Inside the New York…
Posted Jan 27, 2011, by Mike Plante
Cinema of Outsiders
What makes a film independent? Its financing? The edginess of the director’s vision? However you define indie film, the notion…
Posted Jan 26, 2011, by Eric Hynes
The Searchers
From the way Hollywood deals with matters of faith, you’d think it was a closed case. Either belief is passively assumed, an…
Posted Jan 26, 2011, by Landon Zakheim
Re-Defining Short Docs
Last year’s Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Short Film went to Drunk History: Douglass and Lincoln, the latest chapter in an online…
Posted Jan 25, 2011, by Keith Harten
Q&A: These Amazing Shadows
Motion pictures are significant cultural, historical, and aesthetic artifacts, yet “50% of all films before 1950 no longer…
Posted Jan 24, 2011, by Holly Willis
Opinion: Billy Luther
Filmmaker Billy Luther studied filmmaking at Hampshire College, where he developed an affinity for documentary, but he says…
Posted Jan 24, 2011, by Amelia Nielson-Stowell
Q&A: Miss Representation
Jennifer Siebel Newsom's empowering documentary Miss Representation explores the underrepresentation of women in media,…
Posted Jan 23, 2011, by Claiborne Smith
Q&A: The Last Mountain
Bill Haney's sobering, engrossing documentary The Last Mountain details a practice that has only recently garnered coverage in…
Posted Jan 22, 2011, by Jeff Hanson
Q&A: The Green Wave
The summer of 2009 was supposed to usher in a new age of noticeable and lasting democracy in Iran. A groundswell of optimism…
Posted Jan 21, 2011, by Eric Hynes
Redford Opens the 2011 Festival
In the moments before the 2011 Sundance Film Festival officially launched with the annual Day One press conference at the…


