Pure Nonfiction: Inside Documentary Film

Hear the world's top storytellers talk all things documentary film. Host Thom Powers is as well-connected as it gets in this world as a documentary curator for TIFF and other renowned festivals. He wrote the book “Mondo Documentary” that is “required read

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96: Talal Derki on filming in Syria

Posted February 7, 201900:43:22

Syrian director Talal Derki has twice won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Best Documentary Award for “Return to Homs” and “Of Fathers...

95: Free Solo, Minding The Gap & Getting Personal

Posted January 31, 2019

"Free Solo," "Minding the Gap," "On Her Shoulders" and "The Sentence" are four outstanding documentaries from the past year that test the boundaries...

95: Free Solo, Minding The Gap & Getting Personal

Posted January 31, 201900:45:45

“Free Solo,” “Minding the Gap,” “On Her Shoulders” and “The Sentence” are four outstanding documentaries from the past year that test...

94: Sundance 2019 Preview

Posted January 22, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Steve Bannon, Miles Davis & Toni Morrison are among the prominent documentary subjects at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival....

94: Sundance 2019 Preview

Posted January 22, 201900:37:13

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Steve Bannon, Miles Davis & Toni Morrison are among the prominent documentary subjects at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival....