“The Sweatbox” is a documentary about “The Kingdom of the Sun” – a Disney animated feature that would ultimately be reworked into “The Emperor’s New Groove”. Under the directorial helm of Roger Allers (The Lion King) and Randy Fullmer as producer and with original music by Sting, “The Kingdom of the Sun” saw considerable turmoil in production leading ultimately to Allers walking off the production.Read More
Amanda Lin Costa interviews six working documentarians about the current trends in the non-narrative filmmaking world.Read More
Gifs are one of the web’s earliest image formats. They became passe quickly but artists and meme creators adopted the animated GIF as an artistic medium.Read More
Connected Documentaries are films in which are constantly changing based on current events or viewer input. Ben Moskowitz offers some tips to guide the filmmaker into this unique emerging web based story telling medium.Read More
March of 2011, Billy Cohn & Bud Frazier, two visionary doctors from the Texas Heart Institute, successfully replaced a dying man’s heart with a ‘continuous flow’ device they developed, proving that life was possible without a pulse or a heart beat.Read More
“Pina” is a German dance film dedicated to the choreographer Pina Bausch. Nominated for an Oscar for best documentary feature, Pina is also dazzling audiences with breathtaking 3-D that has been compared to Avatar in terms of total audience immersion. Read More
Does the Democratiation of Media mean better art or is true talent being drowned out? That’s the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most influential creators of the digital era.Read More
The classic ’60 Minutes’ hidden-camera story has been done for more than 40 years, although according to CBS News this reporting technique is only justified in special circumstances today. Regardless, as you’ll see in this video, it’s also very difficult to pull off.Read More
The Cinematographer by Jerry Hopper was a 1951 Short Documentary that gives a behind-the-scenes look at the cameraman in action. This was part of a series produced by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Science and distributed in theaters by each of the major studios. Read More
One man’s remarkable experience of raising a group of wild turkey hatchlings to adulthood.Read More
Iconic writer, director, actor, comedian, and musician Woody Allen allowed his life and creative process to be documented on-camera for the first time. With this unprecedented access filmmaker Robert Weide followed the notoriously private film legend over a year and a half to create the ultimate film biography. Read More
“A Short History of America” by Robert Crumb, from Crumb, the 1994 documentary by Terry Zwigoff.Read More
