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    We Went to War by Michael Grigsby and Rebekah Tolley

    We Went To War by Michael Grigsby and Rebekah Tolley is a poignant exploration of the impact the Vietnam War had on the lives of...

  • Editorial

    Q&A with Richard Symons - The Price of Kings

    The Price of Kings is a twelve part documentary series which explores the role of leadership. The films provide an extremely per...

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    Call Me Kuchu

    Call Me Kuchu is a heart-breaking story of violence, oppression and struggle. In Uganda a new bill threatens to make homosexuali...

  • Editorial

    Paul Smith: Gentleman Designer

    The very British menswear designer Paul Smith goes in front of the camera for the first time in this stylish (how could it be an...

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    Tempest

    A film five years in the making, blending drama performance and documentary, charting a heroic attempt to re-imagine Shakespeare...

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    Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

    A revised David vs. Goliath parable with the modern complexities of media propagandizing and manipulation....

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    The Imposter

    Can a family really want their son back so badly that they will accept a complete stranger into their house, or are they trying ...

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    Searching for Sugar Man

    The cult of the musician, their musical legacy and a great detective tale, all mixed with a hint of magic, makes this award-winn...

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    Town of Runners

    Ever wondered why Ethiopians dominate the long distance running circuit? There may be some answers in this new doc by Jerry Roth...

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    An African Election

    Jarreth Merz – who spent seven years of his childhood in Ghana - attempts to dismantle such negative stereotypes, challenging ...

  • Editorial

    Position Among The Stars

    The third and final instalment to Leonard Retel Helmich’s Indonesian trilogy: an intimate portrait of three generations of the...

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    Bombay Beach

    Bombay Beach is the living embodiment of the failed American dream, although the use of the word ‘living’ could be questiona...

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    How To Start A Revolution

    A powerful portrait of one of the most influential political thinkers of our generation....

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    Page One

    An intimate and refreshingly honest portrayal of a year on the New York Times media desk....

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    The Interrupters

    The Interrupters opens with a shocking truth: in one year alone, Chicago saw more killings than American soldiers in Iraq and Af...

  • Editorial

    Project Nim

    Far from being like the Brady Bunch with a monkey, Project Nim is a lot darker than director James Marsh's previous film, Man on...

  • Editorial

    Sound It Out

    Jeanie Finlay’s documentary portrait of the last surviving vinyl record shop in the North East of England explores the breadth...

  • Editorial

    Bobby Fischer Against the World

    by Laura Thornley. Who knew a documentary about chess could be quite so interesting?...

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    Sweetgrass

    Eight years in the making and with a cast of literally thousands, Sweetgrass is a beautifully epic yet unromantic glimpse into t...

  • Editorial

    A Small Act

    A Small Act focuses on the current day consequences of one Swede’s good deed in sponsoring a young Kenyan student through scho...

  • Editorial

    The Oath

    The Oath is the second part in the proposed non-fiction trilogy addressing post 9/11 America by Oscar nominated filmmaker Laura ...

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    Cave of Forgotten Dreams

    A cinematic shudder of awe and wonder that opens the Chauvet Cave’s surprisingly modern steel door and delves deep into the co...

  • Editorial

    My Kidnapper

    Back in 2003, news was received in England that eight tourists had been taken hostage in Colombia by the ELN. Amongst those take...

  • Editorial

    My Perestroika

    My Perestroika is stuffed with history, fuller and fatter than a taxidermy Russian bear but it's really about five people who we...

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    Gasland

    Discarding his usual guise as founder and artistic director of film and theatre group the International WOW company, Josh Fox do...

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    Marathon Boy

    Marathon Boy follow a hero’s journey so ripe for the making of myth that Joseph Campbell would be proud, and culminates in tra...

  • Editorial

    Catfish

    A gentle look at the point where the projected virtual self and the actual self meet....

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    Enemies of the People

    With unprecedented access to the aging Nuon Chea, Brother Number Two in the Khmer Rouge, the filmmakers have secured unparallele...

  • Editorial

    The Battle For Barking

    Shot over a year, Laura Fairrie’s unfettered lens records the political struggle between Nick Griffin (BNP leader) and Margare...

  • Editorial

    After The Apocalypse

    Resilience can be entirely bewildering. In the remote steppes of Semiplatinsk, Kazakhstan, not only do people continue to live ...

  • Editorial

    Into Eternity

    I’m going to plump a guess and predict you haven’t seen a documentary like this recently. Eerily spine-tingling yet strangel...

  • Editorial

    Robinson In Ruins

    Patrick Keiller returns with a sequel to his two previous essay films London and Robinson in Space. Highly experimental, the doc...

  • News

    Doc/Fest Round Up

    Of all the wonderful films I saw, my mind keeps thinking back to five in particular, the first of which was Zelina Daccache’s ...

  • News

    Tabloid

    If the Watergate scandal had been uncovered by the tabloid press, then Carry On Reporting might have walked away with four Oscar...

  • Editorial

    Defamation

    When Defamation hit the festival circuit last year its unveiling was the subject of much discussion and perhaps some controversy...

  • Editorial

    Living With Us

    The British public are no stranger to the unusual relationship that can exist between man and beast; we are the nation who proud...

  • Editorial

    Devadasi: Prostitutes of God

    This may be the only time you’ll ever read these words (or perhaps not, in which case seek help), but Meat Loaf said it best w...

  • Editorial

    Presumed Guilty

    Presumed Guilty follows the plight of two young Mexican attorneys who make a documentary in an attempt to free a wrongly convict...

  • Editorial

    H2Oil

    In her gritty documentary Shannon Walsh explores the social and ecological impact that the rush towards large-scale oil extracti...

  • Editorial

    Football Fables

    Over the past decade an increasing number of African footballers have been plucked from their rural home fields and given contra...

  • Editorial

    180° South

    Chris Malloy’s 180° Degrees South follows the journey of Jeff Johnson, a surfing and mountain climbing enthusiast, who abando...

  • Editorial

    Sons of Cuba

    Sons of Cuba is director Andrew Lang’s feature debut. It follows Cristian, Santos and Junior, three young Cuban boys, nickname...

  • Editorial

    Only When I Dance

    Beadi Finzi’s beautifully shot documentary follows two promising young dancers from Rio de Janeiro as they aim for a career in...

  • Editorial

    All Tomorrow's Parties

    Watching All Tomorrow's Parties is sort of like arriving at the end of a wildly debauched party - you're not quite sure what's g...

  • Editorial

    Beautiful Losers

    An exuberant celebration of lo-fi culture that examines the drive to be creative, the nature of collaboration and the intersecti...

  • Editorial

    The End of The Line

    Plenty more fish in the sea? Not any more, as it turns out. Since commercial fishing began more than 50 years ago, man has been ...

  • Editorial

    Encounters At The End Of The World

    Herzog’s characteristic fatalism and focus on the fragility of human existence is set against the uncompromising vista of the ...

  • Editorial

    Afghan Star

    The last thing most of us probably associate with Afghanistan is lighthearted Saturday night TV. But following the invasion in 2...

  • Editorial

    Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11

    Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11 is the latest in a long line of films based around the September 2001 terrorist attacks. The hy...

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    Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press

    Often cited as the most important person in American publishing, Barney Rosset is an overlooked giant of the American counter cu...

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10x10 Comes Home
  • Posted 26.08.2010
  • by Kerry McLeod
  • Category Workshop

Join us for the first 10x10 on home turf for nearly a year. Wednesday 22nd Septem...

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Marathon Boy
  • Posted 13.01.2011
  • by Amber Dobinson
  • Category Reviews

by Matt Strachan This may be disappointing to a small minority, but Marathon Boy i...

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DFG Address Book of Commissioning Editors 2012
  • Posted 21.03.2013
  • by Kerry McLeod

News in via @TVMole: Channel 4's Mark Raphael leaves broadcaster for role at Drago...

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