Director Kasper Collin on creating a duet between Lee Morgan's trumpet and his wife Helen Morgan's voice in his new documentary I Called Him Morgan. …
Creative Non-Fiction
Creative Non-Fiction is often a more appropriate word for describing innovative forms in documentary filmmaking, which go beyond mere information dump. Here you'll find reviews of films that are pushing the form and interviews with non-fiction filmmakers about making non-fiction works of art.
All These Sleepless Nights is a mesmerizing look at youth culture in post-communist Poland
Michal Marczak's All These Sleepless Nights explores loneliness and liberation in a Poland finally free after decades of occupation and war. This article was …
Interview: Neasa Ní Chianáian and David Rane on School Life (In Loco Parentis) and school as a utopia.
Documentarians Neasa Ní Chianáian and David Rane discuss their film In Loco Parentis about a modern boarding school, Headfort School in Ireland. …
How do you edit a documentary? Gianfranco Rosi on Fire at Sea
In our second behind-the-scenes look at the film, Gianfranco Rosi talks editing Fire at Sea: how he narrows down his documentary footage and shapes it into a …
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Director Gianfranco Rosi on his Berlinale winner Fire at Sea
Gianfranco Rosi discusses the making of Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare): finding his protagonist, developing the film's aesthetic, creating the sound mix, and …
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Ava DuVernay’s 13th is an innovative spin on the talking head doc
Employing key but subtle twists on the convention talking head documentary, Ava DuVernay's 13th explains how slavery in the U.S. was never really abolished …
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Yanillys Perez’ TIFF16 Dropbox Award Winner Jeffrey
Yanillys Perez' feature debut, which won the TIFF 16 Dropbox Award for the Discovery Section, is a work of creative nonfiction. Perez mixes magic realist …
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In Women He’s Undressed, Designer Orry-Kelly finally gets his moment in the sun, and boy is he fabulous!
Gillian Armstrong's new documentary, Women He's Undressed, resurrects the witty and cheeky Orry-Kelly to tell his life story and illuminate the art behind his …
Writer-Director Jenni Olson on her film essay, The Royal Road
Gillie Collins talks to Jenni Olson about her 16mm film essay, The Royal Road, a meandering story about unrequited love told through the linear progression of …
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Chantal Akerman’s final film No Home Movie is a heartbreaking personal essay
Alex Heeney reviews Chantal Akerman's moving cinematic essay: a tribute to her mother, a holocaust survivor, and a subtle exploration of Jewish "suitcase-ready" …
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