Proud Brown University alumnus Doc Soup Man Tom Roston thinks his alma mater has outdone all others in producing great documentary filmmakers.
Continue reading this entry »Brown Bears Are Good at Making Documentaries (But Are They The Best?)
Independent journalist Tom Roston checks in and writes about the world of documentaries in his column, Doc Soup.You can follow Tom on Twitter @DocSoupMan.
TMI: How Much Information is Too Much Information When Gaining the Trust of a Subject?
Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri, the directors of the award-winning October Country and the new documentary Off Label, understand the nuance in sharing personal information to win over a subject and, sometimes, in keeping a secret.
Continue reading this entry »Seven Mothers from Seven Mother’s Day Documentaries
In time for Mother’s Day, Tom Roston presents a list of documentaries that celebrate motherhood in all its forms.
Continue reading this entry »Doc Soup Man Presents: A Discussion of Branded Documentaries and Branded Documentarians
Morgan Spurlock isn’t the only documentarian who’s crossed over into the commercial world. Did you know there’s an agency that specializes in bringing that nonfiction touch to a 30-second spot?
Continue reading this entry »Disneynature’s Chimpanzee
The Hunger Games film to see this past weekend was not, as it turns out, called Hunger Games. It was the latest Disneynature documentary, Chimpanzee.
Continue reading this entry »The Cheap Thrills in Looking Forward to Misfortune
It’s a show like “Fatal Encounters,” which premiered this month on Investigation Discovery, that gives nonfiction filmmakers a bad name.
Continue reading this entry »A Neurotypical’s View on Autism Documentaries
Seen any docs about autism lately? No? Me neither, until recently, and that’s a shame.
Continue reading this entry »Documentary Films? That’s Entertainment!
Documentaries have started to assert that they, like their Hollywood cousins, can be more than simply ‘engaging.’ Doc Soup Man Tom Roston says they can be entertaining diversions too.
Continue reading this entry »On Pinterest and in Documentaries, Don’t Judge a Killer By An Image
Doc Soup Man saw a graphic on Pinterest that paints Trayvon Martin’s killer as a victim of media bias. What does it mean for the social networking site that the image was false?
Continue reading this entry »Obama Enters the 2012 Election with ‘The Road We’ve Traveled,’ a Documentary by Davis Guggenheim
Election-year ads are often naïve and clumsy, dogmatic and jingoistic. David Guggenheim’s 17-minute The Road We’ve Traveled, created for President Obama’s re-election campaign, is quite a different animal.
Continue reading this entry »Upcoming Events
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
May 30, 2012
5:30 pm
Portland, Maine
Join the Portland Public Library as they continue their Summer Documentary Film Series with Granito: How to Nail a Dictator. For more information, call 207-871-1700.
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