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FeaturesThe Broadcast Interview: HBO docs boss Sheila Nevins
HBO documentary chief Sheila Nevins has revealed that she is looking for films that cover the impact of social media on society, male brutality towards women and the status of black art – while warning producers there are no trends in factual filmmaking.
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FeaturesGoggledocs
Five of the UK’s top TV documentary-makers watched C4’s factual output in the first week of February. Here they deliver their verdicts in the style of the channel’s hit series Gogglebox
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The Broadcast InterviewLaura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, Making A Murderer
Netflix’s global hit documentary series was 10 years in the making. Alex Farber hears how directors Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos developed their vision with the on-demand service
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The Broadcast InterviewNeil Grant, Films of Record
Films of Record managing director Neil Grant tells Robin Parker about the streak of anarchy and love of provocation and playfulness that have marked his career in groundbreaking TV
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Behind The ScenesCity in the Sky, BBC2
Russell Levin highlights the challenges of trying to film 300 tonne aircraft taking off from the coldest city on earth.
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Behind The ScenesBattle of Jutland: the Navy's Bloodiest Day, BBC2
What started as a personal story for executive producer Liz McLeod became a technical jigsaw puzzle for director Alicia Aarce
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FeaturesFocal International Awards: winners
Broadcast takes an in-depth look at some of the winners and shortlisted entries in this year’s Focal International Awards - including Firelight Films’ The Black Panthers and On The Corner’s Amy.
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Behind The ScenesLast Whites of the East End, BBC1
We warmed up many of our contributors over a pint - but we had to out ourselves as lightweights, says Kelly Close
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Behind The ScenesChildren On The Frontline: The Escape, C4
Revisiting a family trying to escape the conflict in Syria presented many challenges, says Marcel Mettelsiefen. But the hardest was balancing the roles of friend and film-maker
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Behind The ScenesLord Montagu
How did a Texan come to make a feature-length doc about an aristocrat he had never heard of? Luke Korem explains
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Behind The ScenesBen Fogle: The Great African Migration, C5
Capturing a year in the life of four wildebeest over just 40 days’ filming was no small undertaking, discovered Natalie Wilkinson
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Behind The ScenesDispatches: Britain’s Pensioner Care Scandal, Channel 4
Listening in to secret recordings of care home visits, just metres away in a car outside, was a distressing experience for Alison Ramsay
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Behind The ScenesLife In The Air, BBC1
Capturing animals in flight in some of the world’s toughest locations required some unorthodox kit, says Simon Bell
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FeaturesHot Picks: The Innocence Network
True crime is a tough genre to crack, with unpredictable storylines and drawn-out court cases. No group understands this better than The Innocence Network, a group of 69 international organisations that attempt to exonerate unjustly convicted men and women around the world.
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FeaturesHot Picks: 1916
Distributor RTÉ GlobalProducer Coco ProductionsLength 3 x 60 minutesBroadcaster RTÉ (Ireland)It’s now 100 years since the Easter Rising, when armed Irish Republicans seized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed an Irish Republic.Irish public broadcaster RTÉ aired three-part documentary 1916 to coincide with this anniversary.The films examined ...
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FeaturesHot Picks: Real Detective
Netflix’s Making A Murderer and HBO’s The Jinx have helped true crime become an increasingly killer genre in the world of non-scripted programming.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Inside Buckingham Palace
The British monarchy is a fascinating subject for people all over the world – a fact that should help distributor TVF International shift Inside Buckingham Palace.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Serena
Serena Williams is one of the greatest tennis players of all time – the Florida born athlete has won all four major tennis tournaments in a row, dubbed the ‘Serena Slam’, twice.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Truth and Power
Truth And Power is an ambitious investigative documentary series in which members of the public go to extraordinary lengths to expose abuses of power.