DOC/FEST Features
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FeaturesRoger Ross Williams on social-issue stories and shaking up Ampas’s documentary branch
The US director of films including God Loves Uganda, Life, Animated and Stamped From The Beginning held a masterclass at Sheffield Doc/Fest.
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Features14 films to watch from the summer festivals
Includes titles from Locarno, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Annecy, Karlovy Vary, Bifan, Karlovy Vary, New York Asian Film Festival, Galway and Fantasia.
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Features“It’s about two great friends who lived the dream,” says Ventureland’s John Battsek of Sheffield DocFest title ‘Wham!’
Oscar winning documentary producer is at Sheffield DocFest with Chris Smith’s ‘Wham’ and Sundance hit The Deepest Breath.
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FeaturesSheffield DocFest co-heads talk music, audiences and curation ahead of 30th anniversary edition
Annabel Grundy and Raul Nino Zambrano head the UK doc festival that opens on June 14.
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FeaturesClare Stewart, interim CEO of Sheffield DocFest, explains how she is building a five-year strategy
Stewart discusses programming plans, working with Asif Kapadia and being both funding and format agnostic.
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FeaturesNine British documentaries that made a difference
Producers, execs, presenters and directors of some of the most influential British docs of the 21st century reveal the inside story of their masterpieces and their key moments during production.
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Features"The 'D-word' is no longer dirty": experts on state of play for docs
Two major documentary events, Sheffield Doc/Fest in the UK and France’s Sunny Side of the Doc, take place this month.
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FeaturesDoc/Fest Q&A: Jeff Orlowski on Netflix doc 'Chasing Coral'
Screen speaks to the director about his award-winning climate change film.
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FeaturesGoogle's inhouse VR expert: 'Google is betting a lot on VR'
Jessica Brillhart talks medium’s future at Sheffield Doc/Fest.
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FeaturesSheffield Doc/Fest VR programme puts spotlight on activism
From “this year’s Notes On Blindness” to the Doom Room, Tom Grater explores the fest’s VR offering.
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FeaturesDoc/Fest: 'Wilders' director on politics, perfection and picking winners
“We want to be the Ryanair of the film business”
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FeaturesDoc/Fest Q&A: 'Armed With Faith' directors talk bomb disposal doc
Geeta Gandbhir and Asad Faruqi on their Doc/Fest world premiere.
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FeaturesNick Broomfield talks 'Whitney: Can I Be Me'
Documentary director talks to Screen about his unauthorised Whitney Houston film.
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FeaturesSheffield Doc/Fest looks to expand creative scope
Programme director Luke Moody talks through this year’s festival selection.
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FeaturesSheffield Doc/Fest: Watch trailers for films in competition
Tasters of the films in competition at this week’s Sheffield Doc/Fest.
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FeaturesDoc/Fest: Daisy Asquith talks 'Queerama' and 100 years of gay film
Filmmaker on making Sheffield Doc/Fest’s opening film.
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FeaturesDoc/Fest: Filmmakers show Cuba in transition
British Council supports a delegation of three emerging Cuban filmmakers, and one Colombian filmmaker with a Cuban project, to attend Sheffield Doc/Fest with their new works that explore Cuba in its moment of transition.
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FeaturesQ&A: 'Cameraperson', Kirsten Johnson
Kirsten Johnson is an acclaimed documentary cinematographer who has travelled the globe for 25 years with leading documentary film-makers including Laura Poitras and Michael Moore.
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FeaturesQ&A: 'Notes On Blindness', Peter Middleton and James Spinney
James Spinney and Peter Middleton have lived and breathed Notes on Blindness - a cross-platform project that details a professor’s descent into blindness - since its humble beginnings as a short film series that was developed in 2010.
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FeaturesDoc/Fest: VR projects highlight migrant crisis
Screen spoke to Sheffield Doc/Fest curator Mark Atkin about the festival’s Alternate Realities programme.