Lauren Wissot Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/lauren-wissot/ What to Watch Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:35:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png Lauren Wissot Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/lauren-wissot/ 32 32 STRAY BODIES https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/stray-bodies/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:35:46 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=54524

(Check out Lauren Wissot’s Stray Bodies movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Though Elina Psykou’s Son of Sofia took top honors in the International Narrative section back at Tribeca 2017, the acclaimed Greek director’s first documentary, last […]

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]]> IDFA DocLab Presents Liminal Reality: 5 New VR Projects (and One Encore Experience) I’m Hoping to Catch in 2022 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/idfa-doclab-22/ Mon, 29 Nov 2021 19:20:48 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35880

For the past decade and a half the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the world’s largest nonfiction fest, has both incubated and showcased our digital future through its perennially impressive IDFA DocLab. And this latest hybrid edition’s Liminal Reality program […]

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]]> What (I Plan) To See at DOC NYC https://www.hammertonail.com/features/wissot-docnyc-21/ https://www.hammertonail.com/features/wissot-docnyc-21/#comments Mon, 15 Nov 2021 19:54:50 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35828

(Last week, a trio of HtN contributors provided a list of films they were excited to see at DOC NYC, 2021. HtN contributor and self-proclaimed “doc geek” Lauren Wissot has a great list as well, check it out! Like what […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/features/wissot-docnyc-21/feed/ 2 DOK LEIPZIG 2020: NAKED TRUTHS – INTIMACY IN DOCUMENTARY FILM https://www.hammertonail.com/features/dok-leipzig-2020/ Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:48:03 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=33795

If there’s one panel that really catalyzed my mind this virtual festival year it was DOK Leipzig’s “Naked Truths – Intimacy in Documentary Film” discussion. Expertly led by moderators Djamila Grandits (who seemed to be posing questions straight from my […]

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]]> A Follow-Up Interview with Erik Ljung (THE BLOOD IS AT THE DOORSTEP) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/erik-ljung-interview2/ Mon, 23 Apr 2018 20:09:12 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29482 (Erik Ljung’s SXSW 2017-premiering doc The Blood is at the Doorstep is having screenings this spring to commemorate the death of one of the film’s subjects, Dontre Hamilton. Those dates can be found here.) It’s been a year since I first caught Erik […]

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]]> Viewer Beware: Doubting the Documentary “Truth” Onscreen https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/viewer-beware/ Mon, 04 Dec 2017 23:06:08 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28758 “Fake news” think pieces have been all the rage since Donald Trump took hold of the media spotlight (and never let go), yet far less has been written about questioning the documentary “truths” we see onscreen. While it doesn’t take […]

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]]> DAYVEON https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/dayveon-review/ Wed, 13 Sep 2017 18:46:03 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28496

Devin Blackmon, as Dayveon, making his first appearance on camera, brings reservoirs of pain, anger and vulnerability to his role.

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]]> A Conversation With Reggie Watts https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/reggie-watts-interview/ Fri, 28 Apr 2017 18:37:33 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28057 (We love Reggie Watts! You love Reggie Watts! Our Lauren Wissot found this interview she did with Watts and it needed a home so, lucky for you, we gave it one here at Hammer to Nail. Watts’ special Spatial is available […]

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]]> A Conversation with Amman Abbasi (DAYVEON) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/amman-abbasi-interview/ Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:18:34 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27993 (The 2017 RiverRun Film Festival ran March 30-April 9 in beautiful Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Our Lauren Wissot was on hand and brings us this interview with Amman Abbasi on his much buzzed about film Dayveon.) The 19th RiverRun International Film Festival (March […]

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]]> A Conversation With Alden Peters (COMING OUT) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-alden-peters/ Sun, 01 May 2016 20:46:14 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26252 Coming Out, one of the most thought-provoking docs I caught at this year’s RiverRun International Film Festival (ironically in Winston-Salem, NC during the HB2 boycott) initially sounded like a navel-gazing gimmick. Filmmaker Alden Peters, a white guy from Seattle who […]

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