Just a Broadway Baby: Vivacious Mary Ellen Ashley in Career Documentary
Patrick Riviere’s 24-minute documentary Just a Broadway Baby: Mary Ellen Ashley opens by hinging itself on the wise old lady ...
Tag: Documentary Review
Cha Cha Charlie: Portrait of the Person Beneath the Persona
Matt Bieler’s 7-minute documentary glimpsing into the life of a wrestler takes family as the core of the bloody, bruising ...
The Last Musketeer: A Portrait Defined by Its Missing Subject
Kyzen Del Aguia’s The Last Musketeer is a documentary in tribute to the late Canadian fencer, Douglas Jackson. Slated to ...
Love, Dad: Tracing the Disintegration of a Family and the Leaving of a Father
Diana Cam Van Nguyen’s 12-minute documentary Love, Dad is an attempt to reconcile the past with the present by an ...
Bloom in the Mirror: A Feat of Editing in Account of Relentless Movement
Eri Sawatari’s Bloom in the Mirror is a 6-minute fashion short for the brand Jill Stuart. Its subject, actress and ...
Tumbling Towards Home: Tale of the Child’s Homecoming
Imelda O’Reilly’s documentary Tumbling Towards Home is the portrait of an actor through the people whom he loved and who made a ...
Pvt. Ravel’s Bolero: A Fictional Foray Into the Context of a Musical Masterpiece
JZ Murdock’s 28-minute film-poem Pvt. Ravel’s Bolero uses the documentary format to imagine the private life of French composer Maurice ...
Kasama: Documenting Food through Struggle and Comfort
Nick Cavalier’s culinary documentary Kasama is a sumptuous 17-minute story of how the eponymous Chicago-based restaurant came into being, struggled ...
The Story of Mama Butterfly: Painstaking Creation and All its Poetic Ripples
YuQi-an’s 4-minute The Story of Mama Butterfly is short for a documentary but impactful nonetheless. Dispensing with perspective representation to ...
Remembering Baba: An Ode To One’s Father
Directed, edited and produced by Daljit Singh, Remembering Baba is a 25:22-minute long documentary that essentially illustrates a son’s love ...
