The art of short subject filmmaking has come a long way from the days when ‘cutdowns’ were simply feature-length films chopped down to size so they could be shoehorned into TV time slots.
In 2018, documentary film enjoyed greater mainstream success than ever before. Hence, some are calling this the Golden Era of the genre.
Noteworthy new documentaries like Minding the Gap and Bad Reputation: the Joan Jett documentary (both Sundance alums) made huge impacts on social media and with their theatrical runs. Minding...
The idea for director Charlotte Regan's latest short film came up naturally. "Drug Runner," which debuted today as a Vimeo Staff Pick, tells the true story of a 15-year-old cocaine dealer. The film's hybrid approach explores how he came into the drug scene and the inevitable results of living on...
We read a lot about the proliferation of documentary styles and forms—the many different ways a director can approach the telling of a nonfiction story.
But here’s the question: how does a doc maker decide on the form or style for her next film? Which will it be —...
In our information-crammed lives, how many of us have been made to sit through coma-inducing fact-films or interminably tedious educational documentaries?
Whether in school, at work or in community halls, chances are that while you were fighting off the sandman in the middle of a boring explainer film, your inner...
The Metro Toronto Convention Centre is buzzing with visitors eagerly crowding around product booths, where exhibitors are demonstrating the latest gear at Profusion 2017--the highly anticipated imaging technology show held here in November.
On the main stage of the Sony booth, three adventure filmmakers Peter Wall, Garry Tutte and Ryan...
Typically, when we watch a documentary we can only imagine what went into creating the story unfolding on the screen – the hours of research, deciding on what story to tell, the challenges of location shooting, and agonizing over what to leave in and what to cut in editing....
In William ShatnerâÂÂs 2014 documentary, Chaos on the Bridge, the audience is given a ringside seat to the infighting among writers and producers during the creation of the iconic TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Accompanying the parade of insider talking heads, unpacking the backstage intrigue is a...
You could argue that the first films ever made were documentaries.
As early as the late 1800’s, motion picture pioneers tinkered with continuously-running photographic equipment in order to study natural phenomenon and how the world worked. Actuality films of birds in flight, bodies in motion, cityscapes and historic ceremonies...
The orbit of John Grierson’s legacy touches almost everything we know about documentary. The five-foot something Scotsman with an orator’s voice single-handedly birthed the documentary form when cinema itself was still in its infancy.Just as Orson Welles pushed cinematic boundaries in the way Hollywood stories were told, so John...
