“It was sort of like that scene in Coming to America, where Eddie Murphy and Semmi are in the bar interviewing all the different women”: D. Smith on her Sundance-winning Kokomo City At its heart, D. Smith’s 2023 Sundance-winning (NEXT Innovator […]

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After a year of new groundbreaking documentaries, the Cinema Eye Honors has announced the full slate of nominations for its 16th Annual Awards Ceremony. Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love and Alex Pritz’s The Territory, both National Geographic films, lead with […]

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The time has come to recognize an aspect of nonfiction cinema that has been overlooked for too long. The nature of documentary, of course, is that the image is based in reality. But it has come to be axiomatic that […]

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