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08.31.10‘Adventures in Plymptoons!’ Begins Kickstarter CampaignI think it's almost time to set up a regular Kickstarter section here at The Documentary Blog. It seems like this form of crowd-source funding has become quite popular and there are a number of great projects looking for your help in one way or another. The latest film to grace my email inbox focuses on two-time Academy Award nominated animator Bill Plympton. 'Adventures in Plymptoons!' is a feature length documentary profiling Plympton's career and offering a look at his unusual body of work. I would imagine it would be a great primer for those unfamiliar with his work but ...
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08.30.10Werner Herzog to Edit and Narrate ‘Happy People: A Year in the Taiga’Being a huge Werner Herzog fan, it's a total bonus that such a prolific filmmaker can manage to remain so consistent when it comes to the quality of his output. It doesn't surprise me that, with the TIFF premiere of his 3D documentary 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams' (coinciding with the DVD release of one of the two films he premiered at TIFF last year, 'My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done?'), Herzog has already started talking about multiple upcoming projects. On the non-fiction side, he's teaming up with filmmaker Dmitry Vasyukov for a project that will find Herzog ...
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08.26.10Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo Official Trailer and TourYou know how documentaries like The Cove and Man on Wire have been drawing influences from genre filmmaking in their non-fiction storytelling? Well, I wonder if Bradley Beesley's Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo draws any inspiration from the 'women in prison' sub-genre... I'm guessing not. Regardless, based on the trailer and Beesley's solid track record (he directed Okie Noodling and The Fearless Freaks, co-directed Summercamp! with Sarah Price and helped shoot Ben Steinbauer's Winnebago Man), I'm totally sold! Check out the official synopsis below: Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo goes behind prison walls to follow convict cowgirls on their journey to ...
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08.17.10Support Courtney Fathom Sell’s ‘Asleep With the Lights On’ Kickstarter CampaignA while back I wrote a piece about the films of Courtney Fathom Sell. Courtney's films have a great lo-fi aesthetic and you can always count on his taste for unusual stories and otherwordly characters. His latest project, a short film called The Hole (co-directed by Billy Feldman) looks at the alien landscape of a small section of New York City that's partially flooded and, according to legend, was a mobster dumping ground for knocked-off goons. It's a great short -- with some awesome sound design -- that plays like Gummo meets Fata Morgana. Now Courtney has moved on from ...
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08.17.10I’m Still Here TrailerAfter following the development of Casey Affleck’s Joaquin Phoenix documentary over the past year or two, I have been pretty curious to see what the final product will be like. You may remember hearing about some of Phoenix’s strange public appearances last year, including a seemingly awkward interview with David Letterman, and his attempt to quit acting in order to start a rap career. This was all essentially staged for the film I’m Still Here, and while I was fascinated and amused at the time, I think he played it straight for so long that people just stopped caring after ...
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