Documentary
Fandor Festival Podcast Ep. 18: Documentarian, Cam Cowan
Hooman and Chris sit down with Producer, Director, and Cinematographer, Cam Cowan. Cam stopped practicing law to study filmmaking and began to make documentaries focused …
THE WOMAN WHO WASN’T THERE
Here’s our last glimpse of Tania Head, angry, tired of being harassed, staring down a documentary filmmaker’s camera with a look in her eye that …
The Cockettes (2002)
November 7, 1971. Throngs of celebrities, socialites, drag queens, and rock stars crowded into the Anderson Theater on New York’s Lower East Side for The …
Which Way Home (2009)
In 2006, Rebecca Cammisa received a Fulbright Scholar Grant to travel to Mexico to document the plight of the children left behind when their families …
In Search of Dracula (1974)
Moving easily between history, myth and fiction, IN SEARCH OF DRACULA turns up a trove of vampire lore.
Film School Africa (2017)
Katie Taylor, a Hollywood casting director, leaves her career behind in order to teach filmmaking to the youth of an impoverished South African community. Initially …
Hawaiian Rainbow (1988)
A 1987 film about Hawaiian music examines Hawai’i’s traditional chants, percussion, ukulele, slack-key and steel guitar, male and female falsetto and lush vocal harmonies, many …
The Commoners (2009)
THE COMMONERS is an essay film about European Starlings, poetry, the rhetorical relationship between nationalism and environmentalism and the paths people forge through history as …
One Word (2020)
This vivid and highly charged documentary about the impacts of climate change was developed and filmed in the Marshall Islands, which at fewer than six …
The Hottest August (2019)
A complex portrait of a city and its inhabitants, The Hottest August gives us a window into the collective consciousness of the present. The film’s …