“Making a film is never a picnic for Felix. It’s more like ploughing a field, and then ploughing it all over again, and again — only to end up pulling up the potatoes with your bare hands. In other words,...

I met Tiffany Shlain, acclaimed filmmaker, founder of The Webby Awards and constant pusher of boundaries, on a breezy morning in SoHo in New York City. She looked stylish and authentic in her black and sunny...

I recently had the opportunity to review Haiti Untold, The Untold Story of Radical Change in Haiti, a moving documentary film about the changes taking place in that country following the devastating earthquake in...

The Last Safari is a film about photographs. As such, it’s a film about how history interacts with the present and how consciousness needs memory to survive.

As part of the venerable New York Film Festival, Convergence is a mini-event, a celebration of the short form documentary film that takes place over a weekend.

The convergence, or crossroads, here is the...

Africa. You read the word and a mesh of timeworn images pours into your head: An exhausted woman clutching her emaciated child, a dusty, crammed refugee camp in Somalia, the horror of Rwanda — starvation,...

In August of 2011, an earthquake struck the island of Haiti. No ordinary tremor, the quake killed over 200,000 people and as the world watched, Haiti came undone in its wake. Some gave money, some actually went to...

The Shinoharas’ relationship is a curious one. Ushio, 80, and Noriko, 59, certainly lend full-fledged credence to the maxim “opposites attract.” While Ushio is showy, Noriko is observant; while he flaunts,...

Neill Blomkamp’s first film, District 9, was an intriguing resuscitation of the increasingly stagnant alien invasion genre. It presented the aliens as mere commoners — prawns, as they’re derisively called...

The American dream of a nuclear family nestled safely behind a white picket fence is one that has existed in some form since the days of the Cleaver family. It’s a quaint image of purity that, in true Hollywood...