The controversial threat to terminate the lease for Miami Beach’s arthouse theater O Cinema for screening the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land has been withdrawn by its mayor Steven Meiner following a city council meeting on Wednesday, March 19. Per […]

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(Director Nanfu Wang’s doc In the Same Breath is streaming now on HBO. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Director Nanfu Wang’s fourth documentary feature, In the […]

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(Following its world premiere at Berlinale 2019, Together Films has released 2040, one of the highest grossing Australian documentaries of all time, online. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help […]

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The controversial new Michael Moore-produced documentary, Planet of the Humans, has been taken down from YouTube. I was one of the 8 million viewers who was able to watch it online in the short 30-day window before it was censored […]

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I met with Norwegian director Benjamin Ree (Magnus) on Thursday, January 23, 2020, at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, to discuss The Painter and the Thief (which I also reviewed), his documentary profile of the odd and moving relationship that […]

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...but perhaps what matters most is the viewer's perception of that truth, as refracted through the lens of his/her personal eye. We are all, indeed, camerapeople.

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"What does it mean to film another person? How does it affect that person – and what does it do to the one who films?"

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The emotional core of the film, dressed up in irony and even broad humor, is a quiet rage about the systemic crimes being committed in Africa with impunity.

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