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6 days ago | 
filmmakermagazine.com | Lauren Wissot
Back to selection by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on Apr 18, 2025 DCTV, Documentary, Light of the Setting Sun, Vicky Du Vicky Du’s Light of the Setting Sun is both intimate and expansive, tragic and hopeful.
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3 weeks ago | 
filmmakermagazine.com | Lauren Wissot
Back to selection by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on Apr 1, 2025 Alisa Kovalenko, CPH:DOX 2025, Documentary, My Dear Théo “Kids and sweet love are the most important thing. And not all this stuff – trenches and war. But if we’re not here there won’t be any kids or sweet love,” a grizzled Ukrainian special forces commander tells one of his charges, a fellow soldier fighting alongside him on the frontline of a seemingly never-ending war.
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4 weeks ago | 
documentary.org | Lauren Wissot
Gail in court, in Baby Doe. Courtesy of Baby Doe, LLC Film festivals are all about discoveries, but in recent years, it’s gotten ever so hard to find true under-the-radar gems in U.S. nonfiction filmmaking. While Sundance long provided the latest crop of American documentaries to rave about, it’s now SXSW that increasingly seems to be taking up the national mantle. To be clear, Sundance is still the first stop for top-notch international surprises on these shores.
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1 month ago | 
filmmakermagazine.com | Lauren Wissot
Back to selection Girls & Gods (Photo ©Golden Girls Film) by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on Mar 24, 2025 Arash T. Riahi, CPH:DOX 2025, Documentary, Girls & Gods, Verena Soltiz Arash T. Riahi and Verena Soltiz’s Girls & Gods is a stylishly crafted philosophical investigation that addresses an intriguing question both timely and timeless: Can feminism and religion coexist?
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1 month ago | 
filmmakermagazine.com | Lauren Wissot
Back to selection by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on Mar 19, 2025 CPH:DOX 2025, Documentary, Facing War, Tommy Gulliksen Tommy Gulliksen’s Facing War follows Jens Stoltenberg in the final year of his decade-long stint as Secretary General of NATO, a position he’d been looking forward to relinquishing until, in 2023, President Biden asked him to stay on for another 12 months. And it’s easy to see why.
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1 month ago | 
filmmakermagazine.com | Lauren Wissot
Back to selection by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on Mar 13, 2025 Documentary, Hulu, Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna, Rachel Mason Rachel Mason’s Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna makes its point crystal clear from the title: Halyna Hutchins, the talented DP who landed on American Cinematographer’s list of “10 up-and-coming directors of photography who are making their mark” in 2019, will not be upstaged by the celebrity who in 2021 accidentally shot and killed her...
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1 month ago | 
indiewire.com | Lauren Wissot
Kahane Corn Cooperman’s engaging and heartwarmingly hopeful “Creede U.S.A.” stars the residents of Creede, Colorado, a sparse place (population: 300) so remote I had to look it up on Google Maps, only to discover that it’s just a three-hour drive west of where I was raised. The last silver boom town in the state, Creede is now home to a 40-foot aluminum sculpture known as the Creede Fork.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Lauren Wissot
2 hours agoWhen Bluesky CEO Jay Graber walked on stage at SXSW 2025 for her keynote discussion, she wore a large black T-shirt with her hair pulled back into a bun. At first glance, it might appear as though she’s following the same playbook that so many women in tech leadership have played before: …
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Lauren Wissot
Kahane Corn Cooperman’s engaging and heartwarmingly hopeful “Creede U.S.A.” stars the residents of Creede, Colorado, a sparse place (population: 300) so remote I had to look it up on Google Maps, only to discover that it’s just a three-hour drive west of where I was raised. The last silver boom town in the state, Creede is now home to a 40-foot aluminum sculpture known as the Creede Fork.
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1 month ago | 
filmmakermagazine.com | Lauren Wissot
Back to selection by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews, SXSW, SXSW Features on Mar 9, 2025 Arrest the Midwife, Documentary, Elaine Epstein, SXSW 2025 As its nonsensical title might imply, Elaine Epstein’s Arrest the Midwife centers on the plight of three certified professional midwives who, after the death of a newborn (ironically, at a hospital one of the midwives rushed her client to the minute she noticed complications), find themselves in the crosshairs of their local authorities in...
