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03.10.11True/False 2011: Festival Report Charlotte | Features, Film Festivals, News, True/False | (5)Travelling for the first time to the True/False Film Festival, I had heard nothing but rave reviews from filmmakers who had shown their films there; I knew it was in a small town and that it would be the furthest inland I'd ever been in the US. After a fourteen hour journey from the UK, I landed in Kansas City Airport. From the airport, you face a two-hour drive to get to Columbia, where the festival takes place, but after travelling that amount of time what's an extra two hours? After a minor hotel mixup, which was actually quite fun, we ...
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02.27.11The Documentary Blog Podcast Episode #10: Slamdance Special Charlotte | Podcast, Slamdance | (3)In Episode 10 of The Documentary Blog Podcast, host Josh Ligairi has yet more filmmakers interviews and this time from the 2011 Slamdance Film Festival. Featuring four interviews with the filmmakers of Superheroes, Last Fast Ride, Fordson, and Bhopali we really hope you enjoy this special episode. As always links to more information about each film and trailer are below. 00:00 Intro Slamdance Filmmaker Interviews 04:47 Superheroes 19:20 Last Fast Ride 27:56 Fordson 37:05 Bhopali 50:46 Outro Download the MP3 Subscribe via iTunes Subscribe to our RSS Feed Credits: Intro Music: "Slamdance" – Paperclip People [itunes link] Outro Music: "Whore" – The Insaints [link] Continue Reading...
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02.24.11Kickstarter Campaign: The Last Battle Charlotte | News | (1)This month's highlighted Kickstarter campaign is The Last Battle. With full disclosure, I should mention this is a project I'm advising on. The filmmaker, Jemma Gander, began working on this project over a year ago and has done so on her own, with very little financing, and the film is 99% completed. Having seen the project progress from the initial idea to the fine cut stage I've been incredibly impressed with the quality of the film, and how far it's come with little to no resources. Now the last final hurdle is to raise the money for the archive featured in ...
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02.17.11Review: Nostalgia for the Light Charlotte | Reviews | (2)Set in the Atacama desert in Chile, Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia for the Light is a beautiful and emotive film that introduces us to the importance of astronomy to his country, and the relevance it has to its turbulent past. Using the desert as a microcosm to explore Chile's past, present and future and beyond that to the universe itself, the film takes us on a journey of ideas and investigation, all of which circle back to the desert. The film begins by showing one of Atacama's many telescopes. The desert is one of the world's centres for astronomers and using this uniquely ...
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02.14.11The Documentary Blog Podcast Episode #9: Sundance Special Charlotte | Film Festivals, Podcast, Sundance | (2)Yes Sundance was a few weeks ago, but I promise this will have been worth the wait. Jay was busy finishing his film, but Josh and I were fortunate enough to go to the festival again this year, and while we were there we recorded a special Sundance episode of the Documentary Blog Podcast. Josh must take all the credit as he ran around getting no less than seven interviews for this show with filmmakers at the festival (I think he may even have a few more up his sleeve for future shows). We really hope you enjoy the podcast, the ...
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02.04.11The Documentary Blog Recommends: Diary by Tim Hetherington Charlotte | Short Documentaries, The DocBlog Recommends | (2)Diary is a short film made by Tim Hetherington, co-director of the recently Oscar nominated Restrepo. The film is particularly interesting as it's a very personal look into the experience of working in conflict zones. Prior to Restrepo, Tim was best known for his photojournalism--both freelance and as a contributing photographer for Vanity Fair. He is one of many photojournalists who have made a move into feature documentary, with another notably being Danfung Dennis who won two awards last week at Sundance. It seems a natural progression for people working in this field to move into feature-length filmmaking, as photojournalists ...
