Today marks the start of the Barcelona 360° VR & AR Market’s fourth edition, running online until the 18th of December, a unique opportunity to discover an exciting new documentary format.
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Today marks the start of the Barcelona 360° VR & AR Market’s fourth edition, running online until the 18th of December, a unique opportunity to discover an exciting new documentary format.
There is a wealth of awesome short films to catch at this year’s festival - from a fly-on-the wall experience of a heavy night out in Chengdu China to a critique of the sexualisation of women in surfing and the introduction of an unconventional surfer family in South Africa… Here are our five favourites.
For our latest Top Docs we’ve teamed up with French wildlife photographer Matthieu Courdesses to bring you 10 of the best wildlife documentaries ever made.
Like all festivals of the past few months, Locarno has altered its format for 2020. However, with its Films After Tomorrow selection, the organisation has boldly pioneered a truly unique focus. Here are our top 5 docs.
We first heard of Ben Mullinkosson after giving his film “Don’t Be A Dick About It” a standing ovation at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019, one of our favourites of that year’s edition. Here’s a selection of some of his favourite documentaries.
We’re teaming up with our favourite festival news platform Film Fest Report, to bring you a top 10 of our favourite short films available on the Selects platform.
We’ve spent the past week delving into this phenomenal collection and have emerged to bring you 10 stunning must-see films.
As lockdown persists around the world and travel continues to be ruled out, we teamed up with The Movie Diorama to bring you our 10 favourite documentaries that focus on global subcultures, so that you can continue to explore the world through film.
FREE OF THE WEEK
Every morning Grand Master Chan Hui performs Tai Chi to cultivate his mental energy and calm his mind. What makes him even more unusual, is that he chooses to do so under the bridge in Canning Town, London.
For our first episode of “What Are You Watching?” we met Matt, who had his mind blown by the ‘Zeitgeist’ movies as a kid, was inspired by the cult film ‘American Movie’ and reckons ‘The Greatest Movie Ever Sold’, a film about product placement that is funded by product placement, is the most “WTF” doc he’s ever seen.
FREE OF THE WEEK
Introducing ‘Free of the Week’, our weekly tip on what documentary you should watch next, for free! Our first edition takes us to Chinese megacity Chongqing to discover the rappers speaking out against censorship and the alienating growth of their hometown.
In China, live-streaming has taken over the lives of millions of people. Peak into this Black Mirror-esque dystopia as the annual popularity contest takes place.
Shenzhen is the fastest growing city in the history of humankind. In just ten years, it has grown from 300,000 people spread accross a few fishing towns, to a technological metropolis of 10M people.
