Grand Theft Hamlet documentary shines a light on reinventing Shakespeare in a virtual world: The new documentary Grand Theft Hamlet marks a groundbreaking moment in the world of digital performance. It tells the story of an innovative theatrical production of Hamlet, staged within the popular video game Grand Theft Auto (GTA), which began as an …
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Stranger in My Own Skin: Pete Doherty documentary reviewed by a mental health and addiction expert: Stranger in My Own Skin is a documentary about the life of musician Pete Doherty, who is as well known for his drug use and spells in prison as he is for forming The Libertines and later Babyshambles. From …
Five golden rules for effective science communication – perspectives from a documentary maker: Over the past three years, people from all walks of life have learned a great deal about different branches of science. The COVID-19 pandemic introduced many of us to information about virology and vaccine production. Environmental disasters in every part of the …
Choose Irvine Welsh: new documentary explores the life of Scotland’s ‘urban Shakespeare’: On August 23, Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh’s beloved Edinburgh football team, Hibs, went head-to-head with Aston Villa in the Europa League. But they were also competing for attention with the world premiere of Choose Irvine Welsh, a documentary by filmmaker Ian Jefferies about …
Milisuthando: a powerful documentary that will get South Africans talking about identity: A still from the documentary about growing up in South Africa. Milisuthando/Rob Pollock/Francis Burger Milisuthando is a debut feature length documentary film by Milisuthando Bongela. Taking the form of a personal essay, it’s an intimate story about family and ancestors, about “inside apartheid’s …
Famine: the award-winning documentary banned by Russia for its reminder of a cruel past: In October last year, Russia banned a documentary depicting the famine that hit parts of the Soviet Union including Ukraine between 1921 and 1923 and revoked the film’s screening licence. Now the film is to have its UK premiere (with English …
Wild Isles: starling murmuration in BBC documentary reveals as much about people as it does about birds: Starlings flock to Brighton Pier. SamuelJB/Shutterstock I’m sitting on the sofa, watching starlings. There are thousands of them circling above and around me, swirling into spectacular, ever-shifting shapes. They curve and loop in a hypnotic dance, merging at …
Meet Me in the Bathroom: documentary shows how 9/11 shaped New York’s indie music scene: In 2021, trend forecaster Mandy Lee predicted the return of “indie sleaze”, referring to the hedonistic and unfiltered UK and US indie music scene which stretched from 2006 to 2012. As of March 2023, the Instagram account “@indiesleaze”, which shares …
Becoming Frida Kahlo: new BBC documentary paints a compelling portrait of the Mexican artist: Nearly 70 years after her death the brilliant Mexican artist Frida Kahlo continues to fascinate for her unique artistic language that interprets her physical and emotional pain, her unconventional relationships with men and women, and her complex marriage to the great …
Review: 25 Years of Garage – music documentary falls prey to the same mistakes that killed the scene: Promotional artwork for 25 Years of Garage. Platinum Pictures A host of veterans from the heyday of the UK’s garage scene (including Heartless Crew, Dane Bowers and members of So Solid Crew) star in 25 Years of …
How the Wagatha Christie play is changing the narrative of British ‘documentary theatre’: Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial In May 2022, a two-week libel trial at the high court in London dominated the front pages of the UK’s tabloid press. The case represented the culmination in a long-running saga that had held the …
No justification for fines imposed on Nigeria’s media houses over bandits documentary: Recent fines on media houses in Nigeria are attempts to gag them. Getty Images Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission recently imposed a fine of N5 million (about US$ 11,922) each on MultiChoice Nigeria Limited, NTA-Startimes and Telcom Satellites Limited for airing a BBC Africa …
What Netflix documentary The Most Hated Man on the Internet gets right (and wrong) about ‘revenge porn’: Aleksey Boyko/Shutterstock The most hated man on the internet, according to a new Netflix docuseries, is Hunter Moore. The convicted criminal and self-described “professional life ruiner” Moore enabled the non-consensual distribution of thousands of private images by founding …
The award-winning African documentary project that goes inside the lives of migrants: The Last Shelter plays out at a migrant shelter on the southern edge of the Sahara desert. Image courtesy Generation Africa/STEPS For far too long the west has been telling stories about and talking on behalf of Africa. However, a new slate of …
The Tinderbox: why I disagree with the view of history in this documentary on the Israel-Palestine conflict: Jerusalem, the city that is sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims. S1001/Shutterstock. When filmmaker Gillian Moseley, a Jewish Anglo-American, decided to make a documentary examining the question of belonging and home in the Holy Land – the coastal …
Beauty and the Bleach: the colonial history of colourism explored in BBC documentary: In a recent BBC documentary, entitled Beauty and the Bleach, presenter Tan France (of Queer Eye fame) tackles the issue of colourism. Also known as pigmentocracy, colourism is defined as discrimination that privileges light-skinned people of colour over their darker-skinned peers. France …
What the Gazza documentary gets wrong about domestic violence: The new BBC two-part documentary, Gazza, opens with the solitary figure of former international football star and fallen hero, Paul Gascoigne, fishing alone in a deserted lake. Taking as its title Gascoigne’s nickname, Gazza presents the footballer as a man more sinned against by the press …