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The first film to take full advantage of this change was Martin Kunert and Eric Manes’ Voices of Iraq, where 150 DV cameras were sent to Iraq during the war and passed out to Iraqis to record themselves. In Britain, a number of different filmmakers came together under John Grierson. Grierson, Alberto Cavalcanti, Harry Watt, Basil Wright, and Humphrey Jennings amongst others succeeded in blending propaganda, information, and education with a more poetic aesthetic approach to documentary.

The Tinder Swindler was so timely that, when it debuted last year, Hayut was still very much on the loose and duping more unsuspecting victims out of their cash. That is, until he was banned from the app after the revelations presented here. Anyone who’s ever had their artistic dreams dashed will resonate with the plight of Sandi Tan, who directs this underrated gem. In 1992, Tan and her friends made an independent film in Singapore called Shirkers, but their mentor, Georges Cardona, made off with the footage and disappeared.

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• A freelance writer with a penchant for music that gets weird, Phil is a regular contributor to Prog, Guitar World, and Total Guitar magazines and is especially keen on shining a light on unknown artists.
• The trailer reveals just some of the all-star names who will star in the film, with Bonamassa guesting alongside the likes of Boyz II Men’s Shawn Stockman, the late Taylor Hawkins, actors/musicians Kiefer Sutherland, Malcolm McDowell, and former manager Mark Agnesi, who now works at Gibson.
• He is also a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association and Critics Choice Association.

Decades later, the movie finally resurfaced thanks to Cardona’s ex-wife, who mailed it to Tan following his death. This documentary follows the filmmaker’s decision to repurpose her once-lost project as she processes her adviser’s devastating betrayal. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, My Octopus Teacher is a story of relationships, as told by a filmmaker who bonds with an octopus.

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Indeed, the reputation of Norman’s Rare Guitars extends beyond just four walls lined with drool-inducing vintage gear. As Bonamassa expands, Norm’s stock has frequently made its way Living Without Money onto the big screen – and smaller ones, too – and has helped shape some of Hollywood’s most famous guitar moments. The legendary guitar store, owned by vintage guitar expert Norman Harris, has developed a larger-than-life reputation, and has become one of the most famous vintage and rare guitar gear retailers in the world. Documentaries are shown in schools around the world in order to educate students. Used to introduce various topics to children, they are often used with a school lesson or shown many times to reinforce an idea.

This form of documentary release is becoming more popular and accepted as costs and difficulty with finding TV or theatrical release slots increases. It is also commonly used for more “specialist” documentaries, which might not have general interest to a wider TV audience. Examples are military, cultural arts, transport, sports, animals, etc.

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Compilation films were pioneered in 1927 by Esfir Schub with The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty. Similarly, The Last Cigarette combines the testimony of various tobacco company executives before the U.S. Early color motion picture processes such as Kinemacolor (known for the feature With Our King and Queen Through India (1912)) and Prizma Color (known for Everywhere With Prizma (1919) and the five-reel feature Bali the Unknown (1921)) used travelogues to promote the new color processes. In contrast, Technicolor concentrated primarily on getting their process adopted by Hollywood studios for fiction feature films. Travelogue films were very popular in the early part of the 20th century.

The traditional style for narration is to have a dedicated narrator read a script which is dubbed onto the audio track. The narrator never appears on camera and may not necessarily have knowledge of the subject matter or involvement in the writing of the script. “I always felt like, fundamentally, it was a force for good,” says Alex Roetter, former head of engineering for Twitter in this incisive documentary. “I don’t know if I feel that way anymore.” The Social Dilemma dives deep into the manipulation tactics of sites like Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Instagram to keep users hooked and the negative consequences that result — from the spread of misinformation to depression and suicide. Miss Americana allows Swift the chance to get truly vulnerable, scrubbing away her strategically crafted image to reveal the human being behind the lyrics. What may sound morbid in writing is actually a bittersweet meditation on the stigma surrounding death and a daughter’s special way of bonding with her dad before it’s too late.