Director Emelie Mahdavian says that when she began the film, which follows a pair of female ranch riders who herd cattle in Idaho for a summer, "I didn't really worry about whether it was a feature or ...

A carefully vetted film can educate clients, their family members, and aspiring mental health professionals about psychological conditions, including how they manifest and the challenges they present.

‘Sentinels’ grew out of our interest in exploring storytelling based around ethnoecology and the ways that human culture interacts with the natural world. From the beginning we knew that we wanted the ...

Channel 5 has commissioned the 90-minute documentary film Anorexic (w.t.), delving into the eating disorder crisis. Through observational filming, candid interviews and self-filmed diaries, the ...

Chris C.F’s observational documentary “Aluk,” which follows three generations of a family in Tana Toraja, Indonesia over seven years as they reckon with the loss of their patriarch and their community ...

General introduction: authorship, praxis, observation, ethnography -- Part I. Histories: ethnographic film in the twentieth century. Introduction -- The long prehistory of ethnographic film -- Travel ...

Though director Emelie Mahdavian planned some of the story structure for her latest film, Bitterbrush, well in advance, there was only so much she could anticipate when it came to making a documentary ...