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Now and Then: What Can We Demand of the Documentary--Subjects, Aesthetics, Goals and Business Models?
This year, if you held your ear to the Oscar keyhole and listened hard enough, you might have discerned a slight disquiet. "Very strong category," people were saying about the nominees for Best Documentary Feature. "I loved all of them," they usually added. "But..." The "but" concerned the event...
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Military Rape Doc 'Invisible War' Continues to Push Change on Capitol Hill
While fictional Oscar nominee "Zero Dark Thirty" has challenged Washington politicians to respond to its hybrid journalism, Kirby Dick's searing Oscar-nominated documentary "The Invisible War" has exposed the scope of a military crisis that Capitol Hill didn't realize was happening. In a way, seeing...
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Directors Of 'The Invisible War,' 'How To Survive A Plague' & More Get DGA Documentary Award Nominations
So how good of an augur is the DGAs to the Oscars? Well, thus far only 2 of their nominees for Best Director landed Oscar nominations, but three of the filmmakers behind a trio of contending Best Documentary movies have been honored by their peers.
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Directors Guild Nominates Documentaries
True to tradition, the Directors Guild documentary nominees do not match up completely with the Oscar documentary nominations. All five are first-time DGA nominees.
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Honor Roll 2012: Kirby Dick On His Harrowing Documentary, 'The Invisible War'
Honor Roll is a daily series running throughout December that features new or previously published interviews, profiles and first-person stories of some of the year's most notable cinematic voices. Today, we're re-running an interview with Kirby Dick, whose documentary "The Invisible Wa...
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'The Invisible War' Filmmakers Respond to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta's 'Rock Center With Brian Williams' Appearance on Rape in the Military
Director Kirby Dick's documentary "The Invisible War" has opened plenty of eyes to the issue of sexual assault of female soldiers in the U.S. Armed Forces since its release in June. Thursday night, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was featured on "Rock Center With Brian...
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GREY MATTERS: The Horrors of THE INVISIBLE WAR
The American military has largely dealt with the sexual assault of more than 95,000 service members since 2006 by stonewalling, denial, blaming the victim, and worse, according to Kirby Dick’s horrific and essential new film, "The Silent War."
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Kirby Dick On His Harrowing 'Invisible War': 'We were gonna make this film no matter what'
Ever since it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Kirby Dick's "The Invisible War" has been an absolute must-see on the festival circuit. Despite its considerably graphic and disturbing narrative -- which details the shocking amount of sexual assault in the U.S. ...
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Provincetown Film Festival Announces Gala Screenings and Awards for Parker Posey, Roger Corman and Kirby Dick
Ready for carousing on the Cape? The Provincetown Film Festival has assembled another top-notch selection of films for its gala screenings, and it's got some major names lined up to receive awards.
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