Sheffield Doc/Fest 2007
Sheffield is the biggest date in the UK documentary calendar. We caught up with Sheffield Doc/Fest 2007 director Heather Croal and four very different film-makers to hear about some of the films on show this year, and their thoughts on the direction of the industry.
Choppy waters
Film-maker Morgan Matthews talks about boarding a Greenpeace ship tracking Japanese whalers for his new documentary Battleship Antarctica, which premiered in Sheffield
Interactive story-telling
Imagine a movie which the viewer helps to direct, or a film shot entirely in a virtual world such as Second Life. Producers and commissioners at Sheffield Doc/Fest talk about the future of documentary film-making
The view from above
Eva Weber directed a series of short films looking at the world through the eyes of crane drivers. She takes us up into the sky to explain why she is now making her first feature documentary on the subject
Ones to watch
Festival director Heather Croal on this year's highlights, including films about racism in London's East End, the problem of homosexuality within Islam, and late 70s icons of Manchester, Joy Division
Channel 4 to expand its Cutting Edge Strand
Channel 4 is to expand the number of Cutting Edge documentaries and give the strand a permanent berth at 9pm in its schedule.
Will Wyatt criticises 'stupid' Greg Dyke over BBC's current woes
Former BBC executive Will Wyatt has intimated that blame for the BBC's current round of job cuts can be directed at the "stupid" policies of the BBC's former director general Greg Dyke.
Adam Curtis - and a change of direction
Adam Curtis, the polemical documentary maker whose films have included the Century of the Self and the 2004 Bafta award winning The Power of Nightmares, is to embark on what he calls a "more emotional" change of direction in his film making, I can reveal.
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