Every documentarian has a unique approach to filmmaking, but you might not expect that Frederick Wiseman and Gianfranco Rosi often have polar opposite approaches to making their films. Based on two interviews with each documentarian, we break down their many points of difference, and a few similarities, in their approaches.
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Is the Sugar lifestyle worth trying? Director Hannah Donegan on her CBC doc Sugar Sisters
What is the difference between being a “Sugar Baby” and a sex worker? Is it a viable way to make an income? Filmmaker Hannah Donegan explores these questions and more in Sugar Sisters, a documentary in which she and her sisters try out life as a Sugar Baby.
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 without ever resorting to preaching.
TIFF16 Interview: Producer from Democracy Now! talks All Governments Lie
Laura Anne Harris talks to Nermeen Shaikh, a producer of All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of I. F. Stone from the independent news organization Democracy Now, about the influence of I. F. Stone on Amy Goodman and Democracy Now.
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 historic costume designs.
Gleason tells a cliched story of disability
Disability isn’t so bad — if you happen to be rich and famous. Such is the message of Clay Tweel’s documentary Gleason, which documents retired NFL linebacker Steve Gleason’s diagnosis with ALS and the ensuing decline in his physical health.