“I learned to speak directly to the eyes,” says Talal Derki. He’s sitting on a couch in a rented condo in Park City, Utah, at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. With tattooed arms, a well-trimmed goatee and penetrating green eyes, the 40-year-old Syrian filmmaker projects an intensity and sincerity that must’ve helped convince a jihadi […]
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Mueller is in possession of Andrew McCabe’s memos documenting his conversations with Trump and Comey
AP Special counsel Robert Mueller is in possession of several memos from former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe documenting his conversations with President Donald Trump and then-FBI director James Comey. The memos could go a long way in bolstering Mueller’s obstruction case against Trump. But more importantly, the memos’ very existence is significant because it indicates […]
The Thai Filmmaker Documenting Life at the Margins
Five years ago, Nontawat Numbenchapol struck up an acquaintance with a boy living in Bangkok while working on a PBS documentary about Shan people, an ethnic minority group from Myanmar. The boy told the documentarian that he hoped to become a photographer and filmmaker, and the two connected on Facebook to chat about cameras. By […]
Watch Kylie Jenner’s touching video documenting her entire pregnancy and the birth of her daughter
Kylie Jenner/YouTube Kylie Jenner confirmed her pregnancy and birth across social media on Sunday. The “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” star and Kylie Cosmetics founder gave birth to a girl on February 1. In an Instagram post, Jenner said she kept her pregnancy quiet because she “needed to prepare for this role of a lifetime in the most […]
A photographer spent 25 years documenting rich people — here’s what she learned
Lauren Greenfield Award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield has been photographing and interviewing the wealthy since the early 1990s. After attending college at Harvard, Greenfield returned to her home in Los Angeles, and began documenting youth culture. At that time, she didn’t realize that she was photographing the beginning of “a period of rampant […]
‘Outlast 2’ is all about documenting your own mental breakdown
Philippe Morin wants to break your brain. As a creator of the grotesque, critically acclaimed horror series Outlast, he delights in dissecting the psychology of terror and dreaming up new nightmares for video game fans. Just look at Outlast 2. Morin’s latest project — due out for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 this spring […]