In this career-spanning interview, British-Palestinian filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky discusses political filmmaking, documentary filmmaking, and telling untold stories.
Explorations in Documentary
Documentary filmmakers consider why and how they tell non-fiction stories.
Sam Green on his live documentary 32 Sounds
After the film’s world premiere at Sundance, Sam Green discusses his live documentary 32 Sounds, encouraging active listening, and the possibilities in the live documentary form.
‘Down with the solo author!’: The making of Framing Agnes
Director Chase Joynt and co-writer Morgan M Page discuss Framing Agnes, a documentary that interrogates how we interpret transgender history.
‘A story about finding home’: Jonas Poher Rasmussen on Flee
Flee, the multi-award-winning animated documentary, is now in US cinemas. Here’s why animation was the best way to tell this story.
Robert Greene’s career has been building toward Procession
Procession, the latest from documentary filmmaker Robert Greene, is now on Netflix. Here’s why he’s calling it the culmination of his career to date.
Lynne Sachs on Film About a Father Who and a career of personal filmmaking
Eight films by Lynne Sachs premiere on the Criterion Channel today, including her new feature, Film About a Father Who. We sat down to discuss the decades long process of making a film about her father, and how that project relates to her other films about family.