X-Nico

unusual facts about documentary films



Hava Kohav Beller

Hava Kohav Beller is a filmmaker primarily known for two documentary films: The Restless Conscience (1991), and The Burning Wall (2002).

Lisa Scafuro

Lisa Scafuro (born Lisa Ann Scafuro); is an American director and producer of documentary films, as well as a published writer.


see also

11Eleven Project

Creative Director, Danielle Lauren, was inspired to initiate this project after watching documentary films Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi back-to-back in Perth in 2000.

Andrew Cockburn

He has also produced numerous documentary films, principally in partnership with Leslie Cockburn as well as co-producing the 1997 thriller The Peacemaker, starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman, for Dreamworks.

Anti-war movement

The current American war in Iraq has also generated significant artistic anti-war works, including film maker Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, which holds the box-office record for documentary films, and Canadian musician Neil Young's 2006 album Living with War.

Česká televize

ČT2 broadcasts documentaries and nature-oriented shows such as documentary films by David Attenborough.

Chinese Immigration Act, 1923

The act and its legacy have been the subject of two documentary films: Moving the Mountain (1993) and Karen Cho's In the Shadow of Gold Mountain (2004).

Dominic Allen

His documentary films include Estudio 101, about eclectic Australian band The Cat Empire recording their second album in Cuba; One Cup, about Fair Trade Coffee and East Timor; and Squeezed, about the impact of Trade Liberalisation in Asia.

Emerald Web

In addition to recording their music and performing in concert, Emerald Web composed many television soundtracks, including National Geographic, PBS Nova, CNN, Apple Computers, NASA and Carl Sagan's documentary films, winning several Emmy Awards.

Frank Mottershaw

Mottershaw also made documentary films, an early example being The Coronation of King Peter I of Serbia in Belgrade, made in 1904, with Arnold Muir Wilson.

Fredrik Ericsson

He was featured in documentary films such as Skiing Everest and ski movies including "Free Radicals 618" and "Kong Vinter 3".

Glorianna Davenport

A graduate of Mount Holyoke College in 1966, Davenport made documentary films in New York and Maine before becoming a lecturer at M.I.T's Film Section directed by cinema verite pioneer Richard Leacock in 1977.

Graphic animation

In its simpliest form, Graphic "animation" can take the form of the animation camera merely panning up and down and/or across individual photographs, one at a time, (filmed frame-by-frame, and hence, "animated") without changing the photographs from frame to frame, as on Ken Burns various historical documentary films for PBS.

Jack Couffer

He had worked with Joseph Strick on The Savage Eye, and Strick co-produced two documentary films directed and written by Couffer, including Ring of Bright Water (1969) and The Darwin Adventure (1972).

Jed Riffe

For over 25 years his documentary films have focused on social issues including: Native American histories and struggles (Ishi, the Last Yahi, California's "Lost" Tribes, Who Owns the Past?,) and agriculture, food and sustainability issues (Ripe for Change, Germ Wars).

Jennifer Miller

She was also a focus of Tami Gold's documentary Juggling Gender and Circus Amok has been the subject of numerous documentary films.

Jess Yates

After the war he directed documentary films, joined BBC Television as a freelance designer and joined the BBC on the production side in 1949.

Judy Peiser

Peiser has produced numerous documentary films including Fannie Bell Chapman: Gospel Singer, Gravel Springs Fife and Drum, and Ray Lum: Mule Trader, available on the Folkstreams project's website.

Juvenile Liaison

Juvenile Liaison 1 (1975) and Juvenile Liaison 2 (1990) are documentary films by Nick Broomfield about a juvenile liaison project in Blackburn, Lancashire.

Kartemquin Films

The organization was founded in 1966 by Gordon Quinn, Jerry Temaner and Stan Karter, three University of Chicago graduates who wanted to make documentary films guided by their principle of "Cinematic Social Inquiry." They were soon joined by Jerry Blumenthal who along with Gordon Quinn remains with the organization today.

Koch Brothers Exposed

Robert Greenwald is an American filmmaker, who in the early 2000s turned toward making issues-oriented documentary films and founded Brave New Films, a liberal media company which publishes viral documentary campaigns, including the one from which this film was compiled.

Kurt Gerron

Gerron is the subject of three documentary films, Prisoner of Paradise (PBS), Kurt Gerrons Karussell, and Tracks to Terezín, which features Holocaust survivor Herbert Thomas Mandl talking about Kurt Gerron as the director of the film Theresienstadt. Ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem jüdischen Siedlungsgebiet.

Michael Glawogger

Like fellow Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, with whom he collaborated several times, Glawogger is mainly known for his documentary films such as Megacities (1998), Workingman's Death (2005) and Whores' Glory (2011).

Mihajlo Orlović

Orlović Mihajlo, born in Bosanski Milanovac (Sanski Most) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a poet and author, and the author of several documentary films and television coverage.

Modelhouse

The appreciations and success of the project were proven by the visitors of the house (thousands), articles written by almost all the newspaper of Nepal and 5 different documentary films shown by Nepal Television and Channel Nepal as well as by an Indian Channel called B4U Music.

Noël Riley Fitch

Fitch appears in several documentary films, including Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man, Berenice Abbott: A View of the Twentieth Century (1992), "Paris The Luminous Years" PBS 2010 and the A&E Biography of Julia Child first shown October 14, 1997 and based on her book, Appetite for Life.

Rainer Hartleb

Rainer Hartleb (born 29 February 1944 in Hildburghausen, Germany) is a German-Swedish director of documentary films.

Raoul Peck

A book of screenplays and images from four of Peck's major features and documentary films, called Stolen Images, is being published in February 2012 by Seven Stories Press.

Robin Deacon

His later performance piece Prototypes (2006 – 09) stylistically referenced the output of documentary films produced by the British Transport Commission.

Roger Deakin

He also made several television documentary films covering subjects as diverse as rock music, Essex, Hank Wangford, allotments and the world of horse racing.

Salvador Arango

In 1978 Documentary films of Bogotá performs "Bootstrap," a 15-minute film on the life and work of sculptor film was screened in all theaters of the country, led by Leopoldo Pinzon.

Sergey Yastrzhembsky

Currently he is involved in shooting a series of documentary films on traditional African peoples, entitled "Beyond the Passage of Time".

Silvio Fazio

In 2012, the author released Où les Dieux vont mourir (French), that challenges the official interpretation given by the FBI after the massacre at Columbine High School and in two documentary films, Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore) and Elephant (Gus Van Sant).

Simon Njami

He wrote two biographies, about James Baldwin and Léopold Sédar Senghor, several short texts, scripts for cinema and documentary films.

The Romance of the Far Fur Country

These narrative and filmic techniques used in HBC's film were, in fact, later employed by Robert J. Flaherty, who made commercially successful Nanook of the North and also hailed as father of documentary films by John Grierson.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Gita Sahgal, the writer and journalist on issues of feminism, fundamentalism, and racism, director of prize-winning documentary films, and human rights activist,is her granddaughter.

West of Memphis

With the January 2012 HBO premiere of the third Paradise Lost film, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, there were two documentary films on the subject within a year.

William H. Hinton

In the 1980s, Hinton's daughter Carma Hinton, returned to Long Bow to make a series of documentary films, including Small Happiness and To Taste 100 Herbs.

Zane Birdwell

His new record, Translations, a collection of instrumental songs from various commercials, documentary films, and off-Broadway theater, was released on September 18, 2012.