“The press has been gutted. The bureaus have shrunk, and into that vacuum have come ideological voices,” says Matti Friedman The post The ‘Tectonic Shift’ in Media That Changed Perceptions of Israel: ‘What’s Left Is a System Run by Activists’ appeared first on TheWrap.
It’s been a year of rich achievement, with doc makers thinking creatively about how to increase representation and diversity on screen – but at the same time, a lack of investment threatens diversity behind the camera.
“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer. Nothing is more difficult than to understand him.” With these words, award-winning documentary filmmaker Meg Smaker set out to understand the humanity and motivations of al-Qaeda-trained fighters, recently released from Guantanamo. “The Unredacted” is their own story, in their own words: why they made the choices they […]