How the first year of the One Take Film Festival, a new Rochester festival celebrating the art of the documentary, came together Documentary films are hot right now. While nonfiction filmmaking has been around as long as cinema itself, it’s typically taken a backseat to narrative storytelling when it comes to audience popularity. For many, […]
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The late, great film critic Roger Ebert often described movies as “empathy machines,” allowing us to understand different hopes, aspirations, dreams, and fears. I can’t think of a better explanation of the film medium’s unique ability to make us identify with another human being, putting us completely in their shoes. But that machine only works […]
