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| | | | | "The Keepers" Director Says the Netflix Documentary Has Layers Upon Layers | Ryan White's Netflix documentary series "The Keepers" is a complicated true-crime story that focuses on the murder of Baltimore nun Sister Catherine Cesnik in 1969 along with systematic sexual abuse at the Catholic high school where she taught.
White says that besides the case itself, the documentary becomes even more compelling because of the Facebook group of older women, students of Sister Cathy, who for years have fought for answers in the case. "A lot of the documentary is following this group of women who come together first to solve the murder of their favorite teacher and through that have created this community that's allowed dozens and dozens of abuse victims to start talking about it for the first time," says White. | | Read More» | | | | Documentary "Tomorrow" Takes a Different Approach to Climate Change | French climate change documentary "Tomorrow" takes a different approach to its subject matter by not focusing on footage of natural disasters but explaining how interconnected our actions are in tackling the problem.
"For years I had the feeling that we couldn’t really mobilize people in the right way because we were asking them to quit many things, like to quit eating meat, quit taking baths, and so on. It was not really efficient to make them move and act," co-director Cyril Dion says. "I had the feeling that we needed some new vision for the future something that could emphasize the creativity and the energy of people. And if we could put it together in a new story for the future, maybe that would be more efficient than only showing the catastrophes." | | Read More» |
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| | | | | PBS Documentary "American Epic" Reclaims the Lost Heritage of American Music | PBS documentary series "American Epic" focuses on the pivotal recording journeys at the height of the Roaring Twenties, when music scouts armed with cutting-edge recording technology captured the breadth of American music and discovered the artists that would shape our world.
The series features a three-part historical documentary along with a feature-length film showing an all-star roster of contemporary artists, led by Jack White and T Bone Burnett, replicating this early recording process on an original 1920s electrical recording system and paying tribute to those great artists of the past. | | Read More» |
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| | | | | "Killing Richard Glossip" Director Joe Berlinger on the Life and Death Power of Documentary | Joe Berlinger's latest documentary "Killing Richard Glossip" tells the troubling story of a man on death row for a murder he swears he didn't commit and to which there is scant evidence connecting him. Berlinger follows Glossip through three stays of execution and as the clock ticks down to his latest execution date, which could be as early as this summer.
"Here is where I think the power of documentary can be effective," Berlinger says. "I don't think the citizens of Oklahoma would willingly want to execute someone who doesn’t deserve to be executed, or at least — in my personal opinion he is innocent — the point of the show is that the case is way too problematic to put this person to death. There are too many questions, too many problems and it needs to be looked at again." | | Read More» |
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