In particular, I loved the probing sections about what led them to become filmmakers, and how they decide on which ideas to turn into films.Д¬inematography: Almost all of the interviews are shot and lit identically, in 3-light setups against black. ItвЂ™s thematically organized by major components of filmmaking, for example, Sound, Editing, Cinematography, Narration, Ethics. Intercut with the interviews are clips from many of the films being discussed. Story Structure: This is an interview-driven film, a film that perhaps only filmmakers will really love. In interviews with 38 filmmakers, including Academy Award winner Errol Morris, Capturing Reality shows that there are as many approaches to making films as there are filmmakers. Synopsis: Documentary filmmakers strive toward truth in one way or another, working with real lives and real events in the way that narrative filmmakers work with actors and costumes. ItвЂ™s got part of the soundtrack playing, and you can roll over any of the 38 directors to play cuts of them talking about their approach to filmmaking. The website for this film is the best documentary film site IвЂ™ve ever seen. HeвЂ™d bring them home, and IвЂ™d play projectionist. When I was a kid growing up in Alberta, my dad would rent 16mm films from film lending libraries that the NFB made available in Calgary. The whole thing is produced by the National Film Board of Canada, an organization the supports Canadian filmmakers.

ItвЂ™s a 2-dvd set with a feature length doc on one, and nearly 4 hours of interviews with 38 documentary filmmakers on the second disc. Hunter Charitable Foundation.Cinematographer Steven Bradford came over this evening and we screened Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary. Redux program presented in partnership with NFB. The results are candid behind-the-scenes stories of some classic documentaries, as well as clips from over 50 films that give both artistic and practical insights into the form. Ferrari put 33 of the leading voices in documentary filmmaking in front of the camera-including the iconic Alanis Obomsawin, Oscar-winner Laura Poitras, iconoclast Werner Herzog, chronicler of history and dreams Patricio GuzmГЎn and agitator Kim Longinotto, to name a few. In addition to her work behind the camera, Ferrari, as POV wrote, 'provided a voice for innovations in documentary and encouraged filmmakers to constantly question the forms of their approach.' It's a fitting tribute to Ferrari, then, to be showing her film Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary.

A Passholder Rush Line will form at the venue and rush tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first served-basis.ДЄt the end of 2018, Pepita Ferrari-documentary filmmaker, advocate and former executive director of the Documentary Organization of Canada-died at the age of 66.

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