Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary
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Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary is a film and website about documentary film
making, directed by Pepita Ferrari. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada
, Capturing Reality explores the creative process of over 30 leading documentary filmmakers, combining interviews with excerpts from their films.
The film had its world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in November 2008.
Ferrari began work on the project in 2007. The website features four hours of additional material that does not appear in the film.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
making, directed by Pepita Ferrari. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada
National Film Board of Canada
The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's twelve-time Academy Award-winning public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions...
, Capturing Reality explores the creative process of over 30 leading documentary filmmakers, combining interviews with excerpts from their films.
The film had its world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in November 2008.
Ferrari began work on the project in 2007. The website features four hours of additional material that does not appear in the film.
Filmmakers interviewed (in alphabetical order)
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Patricio Guzmán Patricio Guzmán Lozanes is a Chilean documentary film director. He is internationally renowned for films such as The Battle of Chile and Salvador Allende.... Werner Herzog Werner Herzog Stipetić , known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often considered as one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner... Scott Hicks Robert Scott Hicks is a film director from Australia. He is best known as the screenwriter and director of Shine, the Oscar-winning biopic of pianist David Helfgott. Hicks's work has been nominated for an Academy Award as well as winning an Emmy Award.-Personal life:Hicks was born in Uganda, the... Heddy Honigmann Heddy Honigmann is a Peruvian-born Dutch director of fictional and documentary films.Heddy Honigmann was born on 1 October 1951 in Lima, Peru to Polish Jewish immigrants. She has spent most of her adult life in the Netherlands, having become a Dutch citizen.Most of her films have been Dutch... Kim Longinotto Kim Longinotto is a British documentary film maker, well known for making films which highlight the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination... Errol Morris Errol Mark Morris is an American director. In 2003, The Guardian put him seventh in its list of the world's 40 best directors. Also in 2003, his film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.-Early life and... |
Alanis Obomsawin Alanis Obomsawin, OC is a Canadian filmmaker of Abenaki descent. Born in New Hampshire, and raised primarily in Quebec, she has produced and directed many National Film Board of Canada documentaries on First Nations culture and history... Laura Poitras Laura Poitras is a documentary film director and producer.Her 2006 film My Country, My Country was nominated for an Oscar.Her 2010 film The Oath won the "Excellence in Cinematography Award for U.S... Velcrow Ripper Velcrow Ripper is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, writer, and public speaker, best known for his Genie Award-winning 2006 film Scared Sacred and his newest feature documentary, Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action... Hubert Sauper Hubert Sauper is a documentary filmmaker best known for the highly controversial Darwin's Nightmare which was nominated for an Academy Award.... Rakesh Sharma (filmmaker) Rakesh Sharma is a prominent Indian documentary film-maker. 46-year-old Sharma is based in Goa. His famous work is the feature-length documentary Final Solution on the communal Gujarat riots of 2002... Barry Stevens Barry Stevens may refer to:* Barry Stevens , American basketball player and coach* Barry Stevens , American scientist, author, business developer and entrepreneur... Sabiha Sumar Sabiha Sumar is a Pakistani film-maker.Born in Karachi, Sabiha Sumar studied Filmmaking and Political Science at Sarah Lawrence College in New York from 1980–83 and then read History and Political Thought at Cambridge University.... Nettie Wild Nettie Wild is a Canadian documentary film filmmaker.Wild has directed and produced four full length documentary films:*FIX: The Story of an Addicted City which deals with efforts to provide a safe injection site in Vancouver, Canada... Peter Wintonick Peter Wintonick is an independent documentary filmmaker based in Montreal. A winner of the 2006 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, former Thinker in Residence for the Premier of South Australia, prolific award winning filmmaker, he is one of Canada's best known international... Jessica Yu Jessica Lingman Yu is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. She has worked on documentaries, dramatic films, and television shows. Yu won an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien .-Early life:Yu graduated from Gunn... |