By Avinash T.R. (From the Bodisathva blog)
Avinash Sorab: As I am concerned with an alternative tradition of documentary film making in India I have noticed lot of similarities in style (particularly in the interviews of War and Peace) with the documentary of Marcel Ophuls The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) in French. What is your [...]

By: Julian Chavez | April 12, 2010 | From Malibu Magazine
Thomas Balmès is the filmmaker behind the new documentary Babies, which is opening Mother’s Day Weekend.

In 1967 Peter Lennon argued in his celebrated documentary, “Rocky Road to Dublin”, that Ireland needed liberating from the Irish. Thirty seven years later, Ireland is ready to hear the message.
By 1967 my Irish Republican aspiration for freedom from the English had transmogrified into a realisation that what my country really needed was freedom from [...]