Performance Review: My First Film By Zia Anger. Approximately 75 min. Brattle Theatre, Monday, Feb 24, 7 pm. Presented by the DocYard. $12. To revisit your earliest works as a filmmaker (or as a creative in any field) can be painful—especially if the given work was left unfinished, or, even worse, “abandoned.” That […]
INTERVIEW: CHASE WHITESIDE
Chase Whiteside is an American nonfiction filmmaker who recently co-directed, co-produced and co-edited his feature debut, América (2018), in collaboration with fellow director/producer/editor Erick Stoll. Their movie depicts three brothers rejoined together under one roof in Colima, Mexico to share in caretaking for their 90-something-year-old grandmother, América, who suffers from dementia. Stoll and Whiteside’s […]
CONFLICT OF INTEREST: ON “SONITA”, WHEREIN THE DIRECTOR IS THE CO-STAR
The two shots that bookend the title card of Sonita [2016] tell entirely different stories. First, before we see the film’s name, we see its namesake: Sonita Alizadeh, a teenage Afghani refugee living in Iran and receiving an education on behalf of a NGO. She’s rapping her own lyrics to a captivated audience of […]
DOC’S ORDERS: SPRING PROGRAMMING AT THE DOCYARD
Spring programming at the DocYard
