op-docs
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Trailer Watch: Lance Oppenheim’s Some Kind of Heaven
Opening in theaters and on demand January 15, 2021 from Magnolia Pictures is the debut feature from documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim, Some Kind of Heaven. Featured in Filmmaker‘s 2019 25 New Faces, Oppenheim makes documentaries that are as attuned to their subjects’ interior lives — their fears, dreams, insecurities and aspirations — as to their physical surroundings. “How fantasy informs the way people live their lives, the camera has to do the same,” he told me when I interviewed him. “The only way to get into these people’s lives and their stories is to accurately depict the headspace they are […]
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 19, 2020 -
Watch: Dawn Porter’s Op-Doc Film The Chosen Life
The New York Times today debuted a new Op-Doc film, The Chosen Life, the latest film in a series by independent filmmakers supported by Chicken & Egg Pictures. Directed by Dawn Porter, The Chosen Life chronicles the challenges faced by Dr. Yashica Robinson, the only practicing OB GYN in Huntsville, Alabama who provides abortions. This film was inspired by Porter’s feature Trapped, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking. Trapped will appear on PBS’s Independent Lens on June 20. “While making Trapped, I met this beautiful smart determined woman and I […]
by Paula Bernstein on Jun 16, 2016 -
Watch: Creating Charlie Hebdo’s Most Controversial Cover
“What’s clever here is that we don’t actually depict Muhammad. We can’t see Muhammad’s face. That’s a fact.” With the terrible attack on Paris’s Charlie Hebdo offices culminating in a two-fold siege earlier today, with the presumed perpetrators now dead, The New York Times has posted an Op-Doc that provides a haunting look inside the creative process behind one of the magazine’s most controversial covers. Shot in 2006, when the directors Jérôme Lambert and Philippe Picard were filming a documentary on the now deceased Jean Cabut, the short film parses the provocation that purportedly led to the death of Cabut and his colleagues. The film is […]
by Sarah Salovaara on Jan 9, 2015
