Re: Tanner Wolfe's post on Sat 17 May 2014: View thread
if you haven't yet, check out UNFINISHED SPACES
Recommended Documentaries
Recommended Docs
This is a topic where you can say which documentary has really impressed you, and why people should see it. Can be a recent one or an all-time favourite. Can't be your own though, sorry...
Praise the work of others, not your own. If you want to beat the drum for your own documentary, please don't do it here. Professionals have their own Shameless Self-Promotion topic.
We also have a Documentary Films topic for our Professionals where the debate is private and possibly more controversial. This topic here is for recommendations to the documentary-interested public.
Hello all. I had the good fortune of attending the INPUT conference last month in Helsinki. I've been meaning to share about the goodies I saw. Two of the most moving documentaries I've seen in a long time, although very different from each other were Shosh Shlam's Web Junkie (about the treatment camps established in China for young people addicted to internet games) and Anne Rizzo and Thomas Sipp's Super Fungi: Can Mushrooms Help Save The World (the title is the best description.) Mannnnnn! Had me contemplating the history and future and meaning of human life and all those other places I go when I am moved by great art and powerful stories. There was also a very sweet, compelling web series out of Colombia that matches beautiful animation with brief oral histories, called Old Folks' Tales Good, good stuff.
Re: Ryan Ferguson's post on Thu 12 Jun 2014: View thread
Thanks for that. Very interesting doc. I'll have to look into that.
Re: Tanner Wolfe's post on Sat 17 May 2014: View thread
There is a brand new one called "Alumbrones." It is specifically about Cuban artists. It was just at the Provincetown International Film Festival, but I'm not sure where else it is headed.
Re: Tanner Wolfe's post on Sat 17 May 2014: View thread
I don't think it's finished yet (they just did a Kickstarter that ended in May), but Havana Motor Club by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt is a Cuba film.
Also Unfinished Spaces looks great. Always a little tripped out by how much Fidel Castro reminds me of my Abuelo (Cuban grandfather).
"The Square" was really an excellent documentary. One of the best I've seen recently. Also, was amazed by how strong "Gimme Shelter" was after seeing it again recently. It absolutely stands the test of time.
Another great doc I just saw: "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me". Really beautifully done.
I just returned from a shoot in Saskatchewan.
The flight is long enough to watch a couple of films, but after looking at the selection list, which included Hollywood blockbusters”¦ I had no interest in any of them except for one.
After landing, I discovered the other two crew members choose to watch the same film.
Thank you Doug Block”¦ we loved 112 Weddings!
http://dogwoofglobal.com/films/112-weddings
I saw Inside Job for the first time recently. WOW.
