Orla Smith explains how putting together the 2021 Creative Nonfiction Workshop has changed how she thinks about both fiction and nonfiction.
Documentary
Explore the innovative and artistic strategies documentarians use to narrativize nonfiction stories on screen.
Explant Review: An exposé on the breast implant industry
Jeremy Simmons’s documentary film, Explant, exposes the horrors of the breast implant industry alongside RuPaul’s Drag Race judge Michelle Visage.
In Luke Holland’s Final Account, Holocaust perpetrators reflect on their actions
Luke Holland’s Final Account introduces us to the last living generation of Hitler’s Third Reich to explore how they feel about their actions.
Visions du Réel 2021 spotlights nonfiction films pushing the form forward
The 2021 Visions du Réel film festival featured boundary-pushing nonfiction films, with highlights including Sheltered and Les Guérisseurs.
Visions du Réel Review: Pauline Julier’s documentary Way Beyond goes inside CERN
Pauline Julier’s 60-minute documentary Way Beyond takes us inside CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) to follow the planning process for the Future Circular Collider (FCC) projec
Visions du Réel Review: Captains of Za’atari
Ali El-Arabi’s Captains of Za’atari is a story of friendship and soccer between two Syrian refugees in Jordan.