“The Climb Was Always The Main Character” Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi On Academy Award Winning Documentary ‘Free Solo’
Documentary films have traditionally been confined to the realms of the classroom or nerd TV. Sometimes both. They have been designed to inform and educate, rather than entertain. Free Solo has transcended this barrier and brought documentaries into the mainstream. Free Solo brought spectacle to our screens, not through CGI, but through the majesty of […]
The Seven Reasons Why We’re in the Golden Age of Documentaries
When the Best Documentary Feature category at the 2019 Oscars is so chock full of worthy competitors that the heralded likes of Won’t You Be My Neighbor, Three Identical Strangers, Dark Money, and The Shirkers weren’t even nominated, you know documentaries have reached a golden age. Just look at the weekly releases on Netflix, HBO, […]
