What makes an artist? And what makes art? This year's Silverdocs documentary film festival offers a host of potential answers. Now in its ninth year, the seven-day festival held in Silver Spring July 20-26 serves as a showcase for the work of some of the world's most prominent documentarians, including husband-and-wife team Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker ("Don't Look Back," "The War Room," "Monterey Pop"). The verite pioneers will be honored this year for career achievement with Silverdocs' Charles Guggenheim Symposium award. Other prominent filmmakers at this year's festival will
Sooner rather than later, someone's going to whip up a documentary about how sports documentaries have become the film narrative of choice. We pick Morgan Spurlock for the job. Supersize this genre.
Ronald Reagan was nearsighted. The future 40th president of the United States couldn't read the blackboard as a schoolboy growing up in Illinois, and he was shocked when he was diagnosed as nearsighted.
Thousands of feature-length documentary films are produced every year, but almost nobody gets a chance to see them. A few dozen are shown to small audiences at major film festivals, and a handful make it into theaters. For every blockbuster such as "An Inconvenient Truth," there are hundreds of documentaries that never find an audience. There is now a new online service that aims to change all that. The service, called SnagFilms, allows anyone with a blog, a Web site or even a page on a social-networking site, to open a virtual movie theater and show these documentaries, free. The virtual theater is a small widget that contains the film and can be embedded easily and quickly in a wide variety of popular social-networking services and blog platforms. No technical knowledge is needed.
Also Announces Carriage Agreement with DIRECTV DENVER, May 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- National multimedia broadcaster Free Speech TV will premiere several hard-hitting new documentaries and launch a new "Progressive Action Calendar" during its Spring Membership Drive, which runs from May 10th through May 30th. The network's four daily news programs--The Thom Hartmann Program, GRITtv with Laura Flanders, Democracy Now!, and Al Jazeera English News--will also air during the drive, offering a unique analysis of the day's major headlines, as well as a look at the stories not typically covered in the U.S. corporate media.
LOS ANGELES -- There are music documentaries that are all about the music -- concert films that focus solely on the artistry and thrill of live performance -- and then there are juicy ones that are all about backstage ego and volatility. I'm Still Here," which follows Joaquin Phoenix's tumultuous transformation from Oscar-nominated actor to shaggy, doughy rapper, would seem to fall into the latter category -- if it truly is a documentary, that is, and not an elaborate put-on. Here are some other examples of serious rock-star behavior:
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