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Hanan Abdalla’s In the Shadow of a Man offers an original portrayal of Egyptian women
Set in Egypt at the height of the Arab Spring in 2011, the film In the Shadow of a Man is everything but a sub-standard story about the hope for change. Instead it is a compelling documentary which is surprisingly original and entertaining. It is a film about inequality and revolution, told in the most personal way through the eyes of four ordinary Egyptian women. … Read entire article »
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Filmmaker Lise Birk Pedersen about the making of Putin’s Kiss
It was her first feature-length documentary, made in a country which language she didn’t speak. Despite that, Putin’s Kiss was picked up by festivals around the world and even won the award for best cinematography at the Sundance. You can call it luck, but perhaps filmmaker Lise Birk Pedersen really just has a nose for good stories. … Read entire article »
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Documentary in crisis? “Bollocks” says BAFTA winner Brian Woods
Despite budgets getting tighter and tighter in the documentary making world, more factual films are being watched now than ever before. As cheap camera phones and other technology have turned us all into potential filmmakers, there is really no excuse anymore not to start making documentaries. Multiple BAFTA winner and True Vision productions founder Brian Woods talks to DG about his experiences and gives us advice on how to get your work commissioned. … Read entire article »
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“You don’t like the truth”
The basis for Four Days Inside Guantanamo are the tapes of 16-year old Omar Khard, which he recorded in the maximum security prison in Guantanamo while the Canadian secret service interrogates him early 2003 about killing an American soldier in Afghanistan. … Read entire article »
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