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For documentary filmmaker, it's lights, camera, Maryland Parkway

Oct 25, 2021

Imagine a robust arts scene along Maryland Parkway, leveraging the energy of UNLV, with artists and small-business operators flocking to the venerable eastside thoroughfare.

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Fifth Street

September 2, 2021

Sep 02, 2021
The Adult Lunchable: Our favorite charcuterie spots | Documentary Too Soon on comedy, tragedy, and 9/11 | Getting high (virtually) at the Strip's new FlyOver attraction
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Shots - Health News
The Shout at Cancer choir, pictured above in 2018, is featured in Bill Brummel's new documentary,<em> Can You Hear My Voice?</em>

In The 'Shout At Cancer Choir,' No Voice Boxes Needed To Sing Out

May 03, 2021
All the singers in this U.K. choir have undergone laryngectomies — voice box removal — to treat cancer. Singing builds lung strength, and performing together builds confidence, choir members say.
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TV Reviews
Mia Farrow with her children Ronan (left) and Dylan.

'Allen V. Farrow' Digs Deep Into A Tale Of Celebrity, Power And Silence

Feb 21, 2021
For the new HBO documentary Allen v. Farrow, filmmakers spent three years examining records and interviewing people close to Mia Farrow and Woody Allen to investigate allegations of molestation.
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Goats and Soda
A scene from <em>76 Days,</em> a new documentary about frontline health workers and patients during Wuhan's lockdown.

A Doc About Wuhan's Lockdown Was 'Too Real' For My Wuhan-Born Dad. I'm Glad I Watched

Dec 19, 2020
The reviewer's father, who was born in Wuhan and lived there until he was 28, couldn't bear to keep watching. But she did — and was deeply moved by this new documentary film.
Fifth Street

October 8, 2020

Oct 08, 2020
Vegas' Restaurant Recession | Integrated Healthcare | The Obsession of The Ringmaster | COVID Superintroverts
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Olasupo Shashore, an author and historian and former attorney general in Lagos State, produced and narrated the new Netflix documentary series <em>Journey of an African Colony: The Making of Nigeria.</em> He's shown above in Lagos, Nigeria.

A Nigerian Finds Hard Truths — And Hope — In Netflix Series On Nigeria

Oct 01, 2020
Ifeanyi Nsofor reviews the documentary series, Journey Of An African Colony, which confronts a painful past — including involvement in the slave trade — and celebrates the nation's independence.
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The Picture Show
Dorothea Lange, <em>White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco</em> (1933). Sarah Meister, MoMA's photography curator, sees new resonance in Lange's photographs of aid lines like this one, which stood nearby Lange's studio in Northern California.

'A Community Of Desperation' Finding Sympathy And Solidarity In Dorothea Lange

Apr 30, 2020
The American photographer intimately documented the upheavals of the Great Depression. Now, amid the upheavals of the coronavirus, Lange's portraits of humanity and adversity still have a lot to say.
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Arts & Life
Filmmaker Nanette Burstein and Hillary Clinton pose at the <em>Hillary</em> premiere during the 70th Berlinale International Film Festival on Feb. 24, 2020 in Berlin.

'Hillary' Documentary Sets Clinton's Career And Marriage Against Culture War Backdrop

Mar 04, 2020
A new documentary reveals behind-the-scenes footage from Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and explores her life and career against the backdrop of the culture wars of the 1990s and 2000s.
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Students wearing headscarves and helmets learn to navigate traffic cones in a scene from the Oscar-winning documentary, "Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)."

An Oscar Goes To A Documentary About Skateboarding Girls In Afghanistan

Feb 10, 2020
The short documentary is called Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're A Girl. "This movie is my love letter to the brave girls of that country," says director Carol Dysinger.
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Obituaries
Documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker sits near an editing station showing images of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2000. Pennebaker, who died on Aug. 1, is most famous for his film <em>Don't Look Back,</em> a critically acclaimed chro

Oscar-Winner D.A. Pennebaker, Trailblazer In Cinéma Vérité Filmmaking, Dies At 94

Aug 04, 2019
Most famous for his Bob Dylan documentary Dont Look Back and Bill Clinton presidential campaign chronicle, The War Room, Pennebaker died of natural causes on Aug. 1.
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Technology
Content moderators are responsible for determining what we see and what we don't on social media.

'The Cleaners' Looks At Who Cleans Up The Internet's Toxic Content

Nov 12, 2018
Filmmakers Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck discuss how their documentary tells the sobering story of the trauma and challenges faced by those who sift through social content.
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The Salt
Marley Kichinka, a trainee at Edwins who previously struggled with heroin addiction. She finds her passion in the all-consuming energy and chaos of the kitchen, even though there are setbacks.

Oscar-Nominated 'Knife Skills' Showcases Ex-Cons And Odd Ducks In The Kitchen

Mar 03, 2018
The documentary chronicles the opening of Edwins, a fine-dining restaurant in Cleveland that provides education, housing and steady employment for former inmates.
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The Salt

Anthony Bourdain Urges Americans To 'Value The Things We Eat'

Oct 17, 2017
In an interview with NPR's Here & Now about his new documentary, Wasted! The Story of Food Waste, the chef drives home the size of the problem and the importance of changing our perspective.
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The Salt
A woman in China's Yunnan Province makes tofu in an episode of<em> Perennial Plate</em> called "Where The Water Settles."

Film And Food: Sharing The Stories Of Immigrants With Conservative America

May 04, 2017
The duo behind a web-based food show is featuring personal, positive portraits of immigrant families. Their goal: to shift thinking outside the "liberal bubble" — by using targeted posts on Facebook.
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Goats and Soda
Khaleed Khateeb, 21, was the videographer for the Netflix documentary <em>The White Helmets</em>. "This photo was after double tap of aircraft on July 27, 2014," he says, referring to an airstrike followed by another attack. "I don't know how I survived.

Young Syrian Risked His Life To Film Oscar-Nominated Doc

Jan 24, 2017
He began posting videos of rescue missions on YouTube — and ended up working as a videographer for the Oscar-nominated 'The White Helmets.'
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Commentary
Katie Couric (right) and White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, speaking, participate in a panel discussion following a May 16 screening of Couric's documentary <em>Under the Gun</em>  at the U.S. Navy Memorial in Washington.

Manipulative Editing Reflects Poorly On Couric And Her Gun Documentary

May 26, 2016
In the film, Couric asks gun owners a question and is met with dumbstruck silence. That's not what happened in the interview. Instead, NPR's David Folkenflik says, it was a foolish directorial choice.
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Adi and his mother, Rohani, who sees him as almost a reincarnation of the son who was murdered.

Confronting His Brother's Killers — And Vying For An Oscar

Feb 27, 2016
Adi, an optometrist in Indonesia, offers forgiveness — if they'll admit to what they did during the massacre of the mid-1960s. That's the story that unfolds in the documentary The Look Of Silence.
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Documenting The Westward Expansion: Carvalho's Journey

Jan 07, 2016

All this month of January, the Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival is featuring movies about Jewish identity, history, and culture.

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Media
"Schools, rather than addressing the problem, have in many, many cases covered this up," says Kirby Dick, director of <em>The Hunting Ground.</em>

Acclaimed Documentary About Campus Rape Draws Critics Too

Dec 03, 2015
The Hunting Ground, shortlisted for next year's Oscars, has inspired a backlash — not only for its perspective but for the factual foundation on which it is based and its reporting methods.
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The Two-Way
Co-director Bruce Sinofsky attends the <em>Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory</em> press day at HBO Studios on Jan. 6, 2012, in New York City.

Acclaimed Documentary Filmmaker Bruce Sinofsky Dies At 58

Feb 25, 2015
Sinofsky and his longtime co-director, Joe Berlinger, are perhaps best known for Paradise Lost, a trilogy of films about three teenagers convicted of killing three little boys in West Memphis, Ark.
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Saving a Life with Bone Marrow

Sep 28, 2011
Jeff Watkins looked the picture of health.  He ran and worked out all the time.  Then he found out he had a deadly form of leukemia.  The doctors said he had one shot at surviving: a bone marrow transplant.  But could he find a match?  Jeff is African-American, and the registry is 73% white.  Minorities are vastly underrepresented.  So Jeff's family started their own search here in Las Vegas.  Did they find a match?  Why do so few minorities register?  What happens to the sick patients in the countries that have no registry at all?  And why do officials say so many people are afraid to register in the first place?  We talk to 3 men: one who sought to find his match before time ran out, another who got 100,000 people to register after his mother died, and a third who filmed a documentary called "More to Live For" about racing the clock to find a match.
 
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Raising A Foster Family

Sep 07, 2010
David Bain goes through 10 gallons of milk and 40 loads of laundry every week. That's because he and his wife have 13 kids. They're foster parents - taking in kids who have suffered from neglect and other abuses. So besides a big fridge, what does it take to raise a foster family? How do you navigate carpooling and taking your kid to family court? How do you deal with biological parents with drug addictions, and how do you hand a child back to her family after she has lived with you for years? We talk to David Bain and other foster parents about what it takes to make a family.
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Blind Athlete and Filmmaker Bike for Handicap Awareness

Jul 30, 2010
In 2006, Dominic Gill hopped on a tandem bike and started pedaling. He biked from Alaska to the tip of South America, and along the way, he picked up strangers to bike with him.
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Kindness of Strangers

Jul 21, 2010
Remember the days when a driver would stop and help someone with a flat tire? Or when someone would buy a homeless stranger a hot meal? What happened to those days? Do people still reach out to others? Two college filmmakers are traveling the United States and testing out the kindness of strangers, and they tell us what they found in Nevada. Do you reach out to help others? Or have you faced tough times, and has someone been kind to you? Are there any stories that really touched your heart? In this recession, where are we seeing the kindness of strangers? Share your story with us below.
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