Documentary
Shamans · Animals: A Report from the 8th Annual China Independent Film Festival
By Shelly Kraicer | | Cinema Scope Online, Festivals
By Shelly Kraicer Independent film festivals in China have become rather exciting lately. And I’m not just talking about the films. If they’re not being raided by the authorities (see my account of the 2011 Beijing Independent Film Festival at dGeneratefilms.com), then they’re platforms for furious and impassioned debate between filmmakers, curators, critics, and theoreticians.…
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Endings and Endings: Recontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montreal 2011
By Adam Nayman | | Cinema Scope Online, Festivals
By Adam Nayman I’m not sure what the small clutch of filmmakers, buyers, distributors and other assorted festival-goers with a hole in their early-morning schedules got out of Jan Rofekamp’s presentation at RIDM’s market. Armed with a laptop containing short clips from about a dozen recent documentaries, the Films Transit International honcho didn’t so much…
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