January 2011
3 posts
Journalism + Social Action = Documentary Today →
Crime After Crime, a documentary by Yoav Potash, screened at the closing night of the New York Jewish Film Festival. This is investigative journalism as well as personal and emotional filmmaking with an important social action message. Too often we think of journalism in opposition to social action in documentary, but this is an almost perfect merger of the two impulses. The director was still...
"Quest for Honor": Local Journalism, International...
A successful documentary film takes you on an emotional journey, introduces you to remarkable characters, presents you with images that expand your world, and gives you information to think anew about a significant story.
Quest for Honor is such a documentary. It debuted at Sundance 2009 and is among the 15 films on this year’s shortlist for the documentary Oscar. Mary Ann Smothers Bruni,...
