#Documentary filmmaking
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🇺🇸 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts Directors on Their Works and Hoping to Make an Impact: ‘We Wanted People to See This Raw, Unflinching Portrait’
[USA]
The five Oscar-nominated doc shorts pack a lot of punch into their brief time on screen. The filmmakers talked to Variety about their documentaries. All the Empty Rooms Joshua Seftel’s “All the Empty ...
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🇺🇸 Doc Legend Sheila Nevins On Why Oscar-Nominated ‘Children No More: Were And Are Gone’ Couldn’t Get U.S. Distribution: “It’s A Troublesome Film”
[USA]
The men and women hold signs, but do not speak. Words in Hebrew on their placards — each bearing the face of a child — do all the talking: “Ahmed Abu Sief, 9 yrs old. Was and is no more, May 7, 2025.”...
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🇺🇸 ‘Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me’ Is A Doc That Wasn’t Meant To Happen: “I Didn’t Know What The F**k Was Going On”
[USA]
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me follows its titular star from London to Australia and back, taking in trips to see old friends, her on-stage performances, and even an encounter with royalty. BAFTA-winning...
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🇺🇸 Frederick Wiseman Watched People Like Nobody Else
[USA]
For more than 50 years, the influential documentarian found inspiration in filming the ways his ordinary subjects lived their lives.
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🇺🇸 Frederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies
[USA]
He exposed abuses in films like “Titicut Follies,” a once-banned portrait of a mental hospital, but ranged widely in subject matter, from a Queens neighborhood to a French restaurant.
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🇺🇸 'The History of Concrete' Review: Only John Wilson Could Make Concrete So Compelling
[USA]
The mastermind behind 'How To With John Wilson' returns with an engaging feature-length follow-up.
Related: #Storytelling, #Material culture