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Maite Alberdi’s documentary unfolds as a grand love story as she tracks the effects of Alzheimer’s disease on the Chilean broadcaster and historian Augusto Góngora and his loving care from his partner, actor Paulina Urrutia.
Learn how filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes' work as a crimmigration court interpreter led to him meeting an immigrant accused of murder and to making the PBS documentary Sanson and Me.
Her dreamlike “genius” films about figures like Emily Dickinson and Buckminster Fuller hovered between documentary and experimental cinema.
The Skinny Duncan Cowles on Scary Adult Things Duncan Cowles – long one of Scottish short film's most exciting talents – takes his brand of skew-whiff documentary to BBC Scotland with his first TV series, Scary Adult Things Feature by Jamie Dunn | 08 Apr 2021 Edinburgh-based documentarian Duncan Cowles likes the rough edges of filmmaking; moments that other directors would resign to the cutting room floor are his key building blocks. For Cowles, the awkward conversations with interviewees while the camera is being set up are more revealing than the interviews themselves. The m...
Benita Raphan, visionary filmmaker, dies at the age of 58 Benita Raphan was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. by Julia Rock & Miriam Kuznets NEW YORK, NY .- Benita Raphan, visionary filmmaker, died in January 2021 at the age of 58. Her life's work about geniuses garnered multiple awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. Her visual portraits examined the eccentric and brilliant inner lives of iconic figures, including R. Buckminster Fuller, John Nash, and Helen Keller. Her most recent film, Up to Astonishment, explored the life and work of Emily Dickinson As Benita told St...