On how the documentary field looks today: “I think there was a lot more naiveté in the general population about what it meant to make a film back in 1993 when we started shooting (Paradise Lost).

Our documentary isn't as good as a classic Public Enemy album, but it shares a key characteristic: it's made from fragments of a few hundred copyrighted sources.

When an Abu Dhabi film company, Image Nation, asked filmmaker Tom Roberts last summer to come up with an idea for a documentary about polio, he was flummoxed. "Oh God, polio," he says now.

How to Make a Documentary About a Band, Fishbone Style. Such was the case with “Everyday Sunshine,” Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler’s documentary about Fishbone, the punk/ska/funk band formed ...

When an Abu Dhabi film company, Image Nation, asked filmmaker Tom Roberts last summer to come up with an idea for a documentary about polio, he was flummoxed. "Oh God, polio," he says now. "I thought ...