Marking a career genre-shift, Manas is Marianna Brennand’s first fiction feature. Developed from a decade of research into child sexual abuse in the Amazon, this was a real story she knew she could only be told through fiction.
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Doc Weekly is covering this year’s BFI London Film Festival with reviews and interviews from some of our favourite documentaries. Our writer Ellie Malpas interviewed Shiori Itō , director of Black Box Diaries, which comes out in UK cinemas today, the 25th of October 2024. Shiori Ito is known as a leader of Japan’s #metoo movement, after she chose to pursue the man who raped her, an influential journalist.
As part of Doc Weekly’s coverage of the BFI London Film Festival we had the chance to see one of this year’s most exciting documentaries, Black Box Diaries by Shiori Itō, the journalist who investigated her own sexual assault to expose Japan's outdated patriarchal laws and become the country’s key #metoo figure.
To celebrate IDFA 2020 and this year’s amazing program, we’ve put together a list of our 10 favourite documentaries due for release next year in 2021.
In this poetic, archival feature documentary narrated by Laurie Anderson, Lisa Rovner uncovers the untold story of the formidable women that helped shape electronic music.
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.
For too long, Myriah Marquez was held back by forces beyond her control. That was until she co-founded skate sisterhood and viral international sensation GRLSWIRL.
In a dark room of Paris’ Grand Café in 1895, secretary Alice Guy-Blaché is one of the first people in history to witness the ‘cinématographe’. That day, Alice’s fate as one of the most important figures of early cinema was sealed, but whether she’d be remembered was far less certain.
National Geographic, The Nobel Prize and Oscar-winning filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel have collaborated on a five-part short documentary series, celebrating the ongoing impact and influence of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates around the world.
Starting life as a leafleting campaign to unionise the cleaners, the film snowballed into a four-year project, resulting in a 90 minute piece that in 1975 at its time of release, baffled its subjects.
