By Gregory Crofton Josh Fox is smart. At least as smart if not smarter than the Oil & Gas ogres that want him to step on his head and make him go away. But he’s not going away, and he’s…
‘112 WEDDINGS’: Another Documentary From Filmmaker Doug Block
By Gregory Crofton If you like documentaries a lot, you might have heard about him — Doug Block. He runs The D-Word web site, a resource and forum for those who work in the documentary industry, and his most recent…
The Case of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald: Convicted of Murdering His Family. But Did He Do It?
In the annals of modern-day crime and punishment, few cases have been more gruesome or more controversial than that of convicted murderer Jeffrey MacDonald. And now, after many years, Rita Braver reports how filmmaker Errol Morris is reopening the case…
‘DEAR ZACHARY’ Epilogue Posted by Filmmaker
This short documentary chronicles the completion and release of the feature documentary “Dear Zachary: a letter to son about his father” (2008) and the subsequent journey to amend the Canadian criminal code. It is intended as an epilogue to “Dear…
Docs Get Another TV Downgrade. OWN Lets Its Doc Club Die
The Oprah Winfrey Network recently acquired “RUNNING FROM CRAZY,” an interesting looking film about mental illness and the Hemingway family, but the network has also signaled that it would have less airtime set aside for documentaries, according to realscreen. The…