After weeks of controversy, the MPAA has decided to give a PG-13 rating to a version of Lee Hirsch’s documentary Bully that has cut some but not all profanity.
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KONY 2012: New Video Answers Critiques, But Lacks Predecessor’s Panache
Invisible Children’s sequel to its viral video has less of the mania of its first narrator, and a more tempered message about Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army.
Continue reading this entry »Are We ‘Surviving Progress’?
Director Mathieu Roy looks at the risks of our technologically advanced age and tackles huge, existential questions within the wrapper of an 86-minute documentary. The film opens in New York City this weekend and expands to other select cities in April and May.
Continue reading this entry »What DIY Film Distributors Can Learn from the Launch of the Joffrey Documentary
Sheri Candler and Jon Reiss offered tips for getting a documentary to a niche group of viewers who might not be found through a traditional film distribution channel.
Continue reading this entry »Introducing the Digital Bolex
The Digital Bolex, a 2K camera that shoots 24p and costs around $3,000, is set to be introduced later this year.
Continue reading this entry »KONY 2012: What Made It Work?
What documentarians can learn from the viral video that been seen 100 million times online in the last 10 days.
Continue reading this entry »Video Slideshow: Presidential Documentaries Released in Election Years
View video from some of the most influential and controversial documentaries released in the midst of U.S. presidential campaigns.
Continue reading this entry »A New Hand Dealt Defines ‘All In: The Poker Movie’
All In: The Poker Movie, which begins a theatrical run this month, is one of those documentaries that started one way and ended up a wholly different story.
Continue reading this entry »SXSW 2012: Caveh Zahedi Riles a Government (and an Audience) with ‘The Sheik and I’
The criticism of Caveh Zahedi’s new documentary is only growing, but the artist refuses to back down.
Continue reading this entry »Why Can’t We Find Joseph Kony?
Paco de OnĂs, the producer of The Reckoning and Granito: How to Nail a Dictator raises questions about the inability to capture or stop Joseph Kony, the subject of the “viral” online video KONY 2012.
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