Opening the documentary competition, "Big Men" is an industrial exposé by Rachel Boynton ("Our Brand Is Crisis") of misbehavior by African oil companies in cahoots with American corporate interests.
(The fest's opening night documentary is "Time Is Illmatic," a celebration of Nas' seminal 1994 album, "Illmatic").
Sarah Wolozin, director of the Open Documentary Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said VR was "bringing a different kind of knowledge and understanding of the story, because the idea is it transports you somewhere … It is using all of your senses to help you understand the story".
He is currently a Visiting Scholar and Artist-in-Residence at the Open Documentary Lab at MIT in Cambridge.
Michael Moore opens his documentary polemic against Mr. Bush with a reprise of the 2000 election.
Susan Margolin, New Video's chief operating officer, said that mobile digital video has helped open the documentary floodgates.
Phillips opened her documentary with the following questions: "What kind of society do we want to live in and who should be allowed to live in it?" The answer to the latter is, of course, everyone, which is the status quo – and more screening would not change that.
KQED station manager James Day opened the documentary by reading a statement from California's then-Attorney General Stanley Mosk: The Rejected was critically and popularly well-received upon its initial airing.
By Amy Bennett NEW YORK, USA, 4 November 2009 – As part of the run-up to 20 November, the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman yesterday introduced a photo exhibit and opened a documentary film festival with a special screening at UNICEF headquarters in New York.
The riveting documentary opening feature, Nisha Pahuja's "World Before Her," explores the collision of two cultures in India.
[United States Geological Survey] "The City Dark," a new documentary opening on Wednesday in New York, explores the health and environmental consequences of urban "light pollution".
