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).

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.

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.

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 ...