Brazil gets real with film festival
AFP, April, 2008
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SAO PAULO (AFP) — Documentary films, it was once thought, should be neutral windows on the world, objective investigations brought to the big screen.
But not any more -- not in our world of YouTube home videos and Michael Moore polemics and reality TV and feature narratives that borrow heavily from true stories.
Now, the documentary genre is getting personal. That is the trend seen this week at one of the biggest documentary showcases in the world: the "It's All True" festival taking place in Brazil.
Earnest staples of traditional sort still feature strongly in the line-up, which, while heavy with Brazilian fare, also has many foreign entries.
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Among them is "Darfur Now," a look at the crisis in western Sudan from a distinctly Los Angeles perspective (actor Don Cheadle is a producer and trains the camera briefly on buddy George Clooney as they lobby on the issue).
There ...
