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We live in a golden age of documentary. Worldwide, more docs are being made by more people about more subjects than ever before. The Internet has democratised distribution and marketing. Docs barely five years old—like Black Gold, The End of the Line, Burma VJ and The Age of Stupid—have become reference points for a new age of digitised, activist filmmakers who claim some form of secular prophesy.
Some, like the late Tim Hetherington’s Restrepo and Lucy Walker’s Waste Land, use this new-found portability of film equipment to make intimate, experiential expressions of humanism that aspire, on the large part, to objectivity.
This year BAFTA has added a new category, Best Documentary, to “recognise documentary feature films”. It's great news for all documentary filmmakers out there, especially giving a second chance to those overlooked by the Oscars® (think Steve James’s The Interrupters and Asif Kapadia’s Senna).
if you would like to find out more about the best in recent documentary films from Dogwoof, visit our films page.
May 10th, 2012
This year Sheffield Doc/Fest will be held from the 13-17June, bringing the international documentary family together to celebrate the art and business of documentary making for five intense days.
Dogwoof are proud to announce that we will be bringing more titles than ever before to Sheffield Doc/Fest 2012
April 25th, 2012
This May, Dogwoof will showcase four of its new titles at Gate Picturehouse, Notting Hill and Stratford East Picturehouse - come check out the best in independent documentary filmmaking.
Dogwoof Docs will show these films on Thursdays and Sundays throughout the month. ...
March 9th, 2012
Our new intern, Patrick, shares his pick:
The other day Andy W asked the team at the Dogwoof office: ‘What’s your favourite documentary opening sequence?’. While a ton of fantastic docs came to mind, a killer opening is a rarer bird. Flicking through the titles in my collection,
