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Interview with Bombay Beach Director Alma Har’El
- Posted 03-02-12
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The award-winning Bombay Beach, from first time director Alma Har’El, shapes a beautiful and unsettling image of a forgotten 5...
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Filmmaking Is About Restraint - An Interview with Carol Morley
- Posted 16-12-11
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Carol Morley's film interweaves interviews with imagined scenes from the life of Joyce Vincent, whose body lay undiscovered for ...
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The Business of Documentary - Dan Edelstyn on Re-Establishing a Vodka Empire
- Posted 07-10-11
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I think owning the means to production was important to me as well. I came out of university with an understanding of what Marxi...
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Hard Times - Andrew Rossi on Making Page One
- Posted 23-09-11
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Self Made
- Posted 14-09-11
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Gillian Wearing’s Self Made is a difficult film to understand, let alone categorise. Its form is far from straightforward, alt...
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How To Be A More Engaged Citizen: Steve James on Documentary
- Posted 12-08-11
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I’m a much more engaged citizen when I’m making documentaries than in any other part of my life, because I’m forcing mysel...
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Hanging Out With Nim Chimpsky - Interview with Bob Ingersoll
- Posted 05-08-11
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Bob Ingersoll, Nim's best friend and a self-confessed Grateful Deadhead with graceful silver hair speaks to DFG about the film [...
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The Future of Documentary?
- Posted 29-07-11
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Do hard-hitting docs with serious content still hold a place in our rapidly changing media landscape? Or will they be overtaken ...
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Where Old Docs Go (To Live)
- Posted 21-07-11
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One From The Archives (2007). As the BFI launched a series of initiatives to celebrate the centenaries of several major British ...
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Chess is War - An Interview with Liz Garbus
- Posted 30-06-11
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Liz Garbus is one of the biggest female names in documentary- she has won numerous awards as both director and producer. She too...
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Filming In Prisons - Making Beautiful Sentence
- Posted 22-06-11
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Beautiful Sentence is a documentary by DFG Member Suzanne Cohen, about inspirational poet Leah Thorn and her work with female pr...
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Judgement Day: Crowds, Courts, and Constructive Criticism
- Posted 05-05-11
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Documentary Day – the East End Film Festival’s doc-dedicated industry programme – turned out to be a day of judgement, of ...
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When You're Not Filming You're Herding - Interview with Lucien Castaing-Taylor
- Posted 21-04-11
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Ali May spoke to Harvard anthropologist and director of Sweetgrass Lucien Castaing-Taylor about pushing yourself to the absolute...
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Jennifer Arnold's Small Act
- Posted 15-04-11
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A Small Act rides the ripple effect of a good deed that runs from Sweden to Kenya, from Harvard to the UN, from World War II to ...
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Werner Herzog: On The Charge
- Posted 24-03-11
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams uses 3D technology to full shuddering effect as it delves into France’s Chauvet Cave to shine a light...
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Alpha Males and Black Socks: Alex Gibney on Client 9
- Posted 02-03-11
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The story of the rise and fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was pored over obsessively in the States, but Oscar-winning di...
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Life With Murder - Interview with John Kastner
- Posted 24-02-11
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He is the biggest liar I have ever met and I say this with some awe......
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It was weirdly cinematic - Mark Henderson on My Kidnapper
- Posted 11-02-11
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I have no other point of reference to this. I have never been surrounded by guys in uniform with guns. It was weirdly cinematic ...
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They think I am a filmmaker because I have a camera
- Posted 24-01-11
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Director Josh Fox on his Oscar-nominated film Gasland...
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Hot Right Now: Orlando von Einsiedel
- Posted 20-01-11
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An ex-pro-snowboarder, Orlando von Einsiedel is best known for making Skateistan, the only British short documentary to have bee...
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An Evening With Docheads
- Posted 01-01-11
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Meghna Gupta heads to Brick Lane to check out London's newest documentary event...
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An Accommodation With History: Rob Lemkin on Enemies of the People
- Posted 03-12-10
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I hope we have managed to get a sense that it’s not just history for history’s sake. It’s actually an attempt to make an a...
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Q&A with Michael Madsen (Into Eternity)
- Posted 18-11-10
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I think when I first heard about this facility being built and being foolproof for 100,000 years, I wondered how these people go...
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VBS.TV: The Future Of All Media
- Posted 08-10-10
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BS.TV is the internet video arm of the renowned Vice magazine, and like to think of themselves as the future of all media. VBS.T...
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Devadasi: Interview with Sarah Harris
- Posted 20-09-10
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In Devadasi: Prostitutes of God, now available on VBS TV, Sarah Harris explores Southern India’s pseudo-religious sex slave tr...
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COPYFRIGHT! They think we're fools: Copyright from an Indie Filmmaker's View
- Posted 16-09-10
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How do you feel about your work being shown on YouTube or other free view sites as an independent filmmaker? That's a difficult...
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Every Cut Is A Lie: Discuss
- Posted 09-09-10
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Every cut is a lie. It's never that way. Those two shots were never next to each other in time that way. But you're telling a li...
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COPYFRIGHT! Conveying the Right Message: Digital Copyright and Dogwoof
- Posted 05-08-10
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Dogwoof is an independent UK distribution company and social enterprise. They focus on ethical documentaries, such as The Age of...
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COPYFRIGHT! Digital Honesty Boxes?
- Posted 23-07-10
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Bridget Fox, a Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate at the recent elections, is at the centre of the controversy surrounding...
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COPYFRIGHT! Accessing Archive - Is it a Fair Deal?
- Posted 01-07-10
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Archive researcher Jacqui Edwards shares her opinion on how far the conventions and rules regarding the clearance of copyright a...
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Stealing a Penny from a Rich Man - An Interview with Olly Lambert
- Posted 18-06-10
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For part two of our COPYFRIGHT season on Creative Confusion in the Digital Age, DFG looks at the impact of digital distribution ...
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COPYFRIGHT! Ken Loach, UK's YouTube Pioneer?
- Posted 10-06-10
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DFG talks to Ken Loach's producer Rebecca O'Brien about the team's decision to embrace YouTube as a distribution platform...
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COPYFRIGHT! Creative Confusion in the Digital Age
- Posted 10-06-10
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How does copyright in the digital age impact on the ways we make, distribute and watch documentaries?...
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Interview with Kim Longinotto
- Posted 26-03-10
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One from the Archives: DFG's chat with acclaimed filmmaker Kim Longinotto ahead of the release of her film Sisters in Law in 200...
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Interview with Kim Longinotto
- Posted 25-03-10
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Ahead of the release of her film Sisters in Law, we speak to Kim Longinotto about her experiences as a documentary filmmaker. by...
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The Lives of Others: An interview with Kim Longinotto
- Posted 25-03-10
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To coincide with the DVD release from Second Run of two of her earlier films, Olivia Humphreys met up with acclaimed director Ki...
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Finding The Tipping Point
- Posted 25-03-10
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Deborah Burton, co-founder of innovative new venture the Tipping Point Film Fund, talks about the ethos behind the co-operative ...
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The Times We Live In – An Interview with Marc Isaacs
- Posted 25-03-10
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As Second Run DVD releases a collection of his films - Lift; Calais: The Last Border; and Travellers - DFG speaks with acclaime...
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The Good Heart Attack - A DFG Success Story
- Posted 25-03-10
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Following its win at the Verdere La Scienza Festival last week, DFG caught up with the film's directors Uli Hesse and Dr Sean Da...
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Can Documentaries Change The World? Interview with Franny Armstrong*
- Posted 25-03-10
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Franny Armstrong's latest film The Age of Stupid tackles the issue of climate change. Beyond the stories abounding in the indust...
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Interview with Rachel Landers, director of A Northern Town
- Posted 24-03-10
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A Northern Town tells the bloody history of Kempsey, a rural Australian town, through the residents of a care home for the elder...
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Interview with Carl Deal and Tia Lessin
- Posted 24-03-10
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The directors of Oscar-shortlisted Trouble the Water talk to DFG about making films that make a difference. by David Paul Nixon...
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Interview with James Toback
- Posted 24-03-10
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Writer and director James Toback talks to Zoe Morgan Chiswick about hypnosis and the art of interviewing a friend with a trouble...
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Interview with Jerry Rothwell
- Posted 24-03-10
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Jerry Rothwell, director of the trilling Deep Water (2006), has most recently turned his attention to Heavy Load, a chaotic Brit...
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Interview with Heavy Load
- Posted 24-03-10
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Heavy Load, the eponymous band of Jerry Rothwell’s latest feature documentary, have been living it up on the press junkets sur...
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Interview with Charles-Henri Belleville
- Posted 24-03-10
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The youngest filmmaker to be nominated for the Raindance Best UK Feature award, and director of new documentary Midnight Madness...
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Permission Culture - Press 'Escape'
- Posted 24-03-10
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Till now, as independent filmmakers (especially of non-fiction), there have always been gatekeepers between us and our audience....
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How to get Ahead in Documentary - A DFG Guide
- Posted 24-03-10
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Here the collective expertise of DFG is pooled into one handy guide to getting started in the world of docs. by DFG...
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Interview with Tanaz Eshaghian
- Posted 24-03-10
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The Iranian-American director of Transsexual in Iran, a film about a gender reassignment clinic in Tehran, talks about the exper...
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Songs of the Super Girls on the Road to the Golden Age
- Posted 24-03-10
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Jian Yi's first feature length documentary follows several contestants of the now banned Chinese reality television show Supergi...
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This Working Life: Tales from the Shipyard - DFG Member Offer (Member only)
- Posted 03.02.2011
- by Kerry McLeod
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February 2011 | BFI Southbank Win one of FIVE pairs of tickets to the screening of...
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COPYFRIGHT! Creative Confusion in the Digital Age
- Posted 10.06.2010
- by Kerry McLeod
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Copyright at the best of times is an enigma, keeping retinues of lawyers armed wit...
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Marathon Boy
- Posted 13.01.2011
- by Amber Dobinson
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by Matt Strachan This may be disappointing to a small minority, but Marathon Boy i...
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Presumed Guilty
- Posted 29.07.2011
- by Amber Dobinson
Presumed Guilty is nominated for three Emmys. Congratulations to our friend Geoffr...