The 29-year-old filmmaker reflects on skateboarding videos, making documentaries, and what he learned about his hometown of Rockford, Illinois, during filming.
Tag: documentary filmmaking
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Check out the masterful documentary Bitter Money for an eye-opening lesson in modern Chinese economics
Playing this week at Facets, the 2016 feature confirms Wang Bing’s reputation as one of the most exciting nonfiction filmmakers working today.
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An epic quest to skateboard from Chicago to New York hits the screen in Shred America
Arthur Swidzinski and Mike Kosciesza planned to document their adventure, but never thought it would take ten years.
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Talking to the director of the El Chapo Guzman documentary that comes to the Patio on Friday
A conversation with the prolific TV journalist-turned-filmmaker, whose film Es el Chapo? opens in Chicago on Friday.
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Documentarian Soon-Mi Yoo discusses the challenges of capturing everyday life of North Korea
The South Korean-born Yoo’s Songs From the North receives its Chicago premiere tonight, with the filmmaker in attendance.
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This year’s Oscar-nominated documentary shorts confront ethical dilemmas—and raise some of their own
The five nominees play in two separate programs at the Music Box Theatre tonight, with repeat screenings scheduled for the next two weekends.
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RIP Jerry Blumenthal, founding partner of Kartemquin Films
The teacher and documentary filmmaker made lasting contributions to the Chicago film community.
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Local filmmaker Mitchell Lieber presents his work-in-progress Holocaust documentary Rumbula’s Echo
Noting a free screening at the Cultural Center on March 23, with Lieber and Holocaust survivor Sia Hertsberg scheduled to attend
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The year in movie revivals, A through G
The first in a three-part series on Chicago’s best repertory film screenings of 2013
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This weekend, disregard journalistic neutrality with the documentaries of Shohei Imamura
Previewing the six-film retrospective beginning this weekend at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
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Talking truth with Fake It So Real director Robert Greene
An interview with the independent documentary filmmaker
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Too much information/just enough information
Distinguishing worthy documentaries from the non-films that have come in their wake