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| | | | | "Risk" Documentary Director Rethinks Assange | When it came to telling the complicated tale of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, documentarian Laura Poitras knew that the story would be compelling and convoluted. But she did not realize exactly how complicated — and contradictory — that story would turn out to be.
Recounting the story of the WikiLeaks founder raised questions that Poitras, an Oscar-winning documentarian, didn't necessarily intend to raise. Initially, material from the documentary she put together on Assange was molded into an episodic series that was shown at the 2015 New York Film Festival; afterward, a fuller film was released at Cannes last year. And in that version, the film depicted the WikiLeaks founder as more of a maverick than as a villain.
The final film, released this week, turns out to be very different from the Cannes version. "Risk" showcases Assange and what seem to be traits of narcissism, contempt about some women and newly added voiceover commentary by Poitras herself that illustrates her assessment about this polarizing figure. | | Read More» | | | | Digital Video Announces 2017 NAB Best of Show Award Winners | Digital Video, published by NewBay’s Broadcast/Video Group, announced its Best of Show Award winners at the 2017 NAB Show.
NewBay’s Best of Show Awards are judged by a panel of industry experts on the criteria of innovation, feature set, cost efficiency and performance in serving the industry. The winners will be featured in Digital Video, whose print and online destinations serve as a centralized resource for creative professionals, focusing on art, technology and business. Developed for those involved in video production and postproduction, its content aims to inform, inspire and introduce the creative community on a daily basis, with news, reviews, interviews, tutorials, analysis and expert opinions.
Only a small number of products were selected to receive a Best of Show Award from among hundreds of new products in competition. | | Read More» |
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| | | | | "City of Ghosts" Subjects Fight ISIS (With Cameras) | While many in the U.S. debate what level of force should be used in attempting to dispatch the terrorist group ISIS, a group of citizens originally from Raqqa, Syria—some now dispersed in places like Germany, while others remain in Raqqa—are using a different strategy to try and combat ISIS. Members of the RBSS (Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently) media group and their effort to document the actions of ISIS in their home country, as well as related events around the world, is the subject of Matthew Heineman's ("Cartel Land") new documentary, "City of Ghosts."
"The contrast of ISIS's videos, which proclaim a fully-functioning and prosperous state, with those of RBSS, which captured the dysfunction and violence of everyday life, is shocking," Heineman explains. "In a sense, it's a war of ideas, a war of propaganda, a war being waged with cameras and computers, not just guns." | | Read More» |
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| | | | | "Casting JonBenét" Is a Portrait of a Community Living Under the Shadow of a Sensationalized Case | In Netflix documentary Casting JonBenét, director Kitty Green takes a different approach to the sensational 20-year-old case of the murder of child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey. In the film, Green returns to Boulder, Colorado, the town where the crime took place, and auditions locals to play the parts in her re-enactments. In the process, she gets what she really came for: people's recollections of how the crime affected them.
"We were looking at doing more of a portrait of a community that had lived under the shadow of a crime for the last 20 years more so than the JonBenet Ramsey case itself," Green says. "It's not a whodunit. We're not making a true crime film." | | Read More» |
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