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Make It Real

Make It Real: On Characters and Democrats

By Eric Hynes
November 20, 2015
Out of the ballot box: Camilla Nielsson's engrossing documentary about Zimbabwe's democratic election doesn't simplify for the sake of storytelling

Make It Real: Of Cameras and Compassion

By Eric Hynes
November 13, 2015
How the extraordinary Of Men and War performs cinematherapy for its war-veteran subjects speaking about trauma

Make It Real: The Varieties of Nonfiction Experience

By Eric Hynes
October 30, 2015
Mixed media: the new Wind-Up Fest experiments with audio-only performance and what goes on behind closed doors

Make It Real: On Cinematic Autobiography, Part 2

By Eric Hynes
October 16, 2015
Autobiography in the first, second, and third person: exploring the work (and relationships) of Ed Pincus, Lucia Small, and Manoel de Oliveira

Make It Real: On Cinematic Autobiography, Part 1

By Eric Hynes
October 9, 2015
Candid constructions: a consideration of documentarians who make films about their own lives

Make It Real: The Artist Is Present in the Edit

By Eric Hynes
October 1, 2015
Finders keepers: the strategies of documentarians who assemble films from footage they didn't shoot

Make It Real: The Director Stays in the Picture

By Eric Hynes
September 23, 2015
Down in front: what happens when filmmakers become characters?

Make It Real: The Long and the Short of It

By Eric Hynes
September 11, 2015
The right fit: challenging the accepted wisdom about documentary runtimes, sales, and what audiences are willing to watch

Make It Real: The Long Echo of When the Levees Broke

By Eric Hynes
August 31, 2015
On the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Spike Lee's mournful, mighty "requiem in four acts" still testifies loud and clear

Make It Real: The Cinema of Transition

By Eric Hynes
August 21, 2015
In transit: J.P. Sniadecki’s The Iron Ministry and the works of the Beijing Independent Film Festival reflect China's changing lives and landscapes