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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.

Seventh Row Editors / June 14, 2023

Creative Nonfiction #4: Sam Green on live documentary and 32 Sounds

In the fourth episode of our Creative Nonfiction Film podcast season, Sam Green discusses his film 32 Sounds and the live documentary

Seventh Row Editors / June 7, 2023

Creative Nonfiction #3: Philippe Falardeau on Lac-Mégantic: This is Not An Accident and reinventing the true crime doc

In the third episode of our Creative Nonfiction Film podcast season, Philippe Falardeau discusses his four-part documentary series, Lac-Mégantic: This is Not An Accident, and reinventing the true crime doc.

Seventh Row Editors / May 31, 2023

Creative Nonfiction #2: Sophie Fiennes on Four Quartets and documenting theatre on film

In the second episode of our Creative Nonfiction Film podcast season, Sophie Fiennes discusses The Four Quartets and how she approaches documenting live performance on screen.

Seventh Row Editors / May 30, 2023

Creative Nonfiction Film #1: An introduction to the season

In the first episode of our Creative Nonfiction Film podcast season, Alex Heeney previews what to expect this season and discusses how she got interested in creative nonfiction film — a process that’s been documented in our two ebooks on documentaries.

Alex Heeney / May 2, 2023

Visions du Réel Review: Piotr Pawlus and Tomasz Wolski’s In Ukraine

Tomasz Wolski’s observational documentary In Ukraine is the best and most harrowing film I’ve seen about the Ukraine War because it focuses on the banal.

Alex Heeney / April 27, 2023

Visions du Réel & HotDocs Review: Erik Gandini’s After Work

Erik Gandini works with documentary images and sounds as if he’s making a musical in his creative nonfiction film After Work, a look at varying attitudes to work around the world.

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