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June 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Picture Character: Film

Picture Character Directors: Martha Shane & Ian Cheney Submarine Entertainment / Documentary Edge Festival “Emoji” is Japanese for “Picture Character” – so this documentary takes a occasionally probing, mostly light hearted look at the world/s of picture characters that have sprung up and seemingly threatened to take over language since emoji creator, Shigetaka Kurita set […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Doc, Doc Edge, Documentary, Documentary Edge, Documentary Edge Festival, Documentary Film, Emoji, Film, Film Review, https://festival.docedge.nz/film/picture-character/, Ian Cheney, Martha Shane, Movie, Picture Character, Picture Character: Film, Submarine Entertainment, This year’s Documentary Edge Festival is all online – Picture Character is part of the program. ·

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June 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

This Is Not A Movie: Film

This Is Not A Movie Director: Yung Chang National Film Board of Canada (NFB)  / Documentary Edge Festival Subtitled Robert Fisk and The Politics of Truth – This Is Not A Movie is both portrait of Fisk and his working methods and a reminder of how journalism has changed, perhaps how far it’s fallen; certainly […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 20/20, Doc, Doc Edge, Doco, Documentary, Documentary Edge, Documentary Edge Festival, Film, Film Review, Journalism, Movie, Movie Review, Robert Fisk, Robert Fisk and The Politics of Truth, Rupert Murdoch, This Is Not A Movie, This Is Not A Movie: Film, War Correspondent, Yung Change ·

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June 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band: Film

Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band Director: Tod Lending Nomadic Pictures / Documentary Edge Festival Did you follow through with that lifelong artistic dream during the recent paid 8-week vacation of Lockdown? Did you pick up the drum-sticks for the first time, or first time in years? Did you write that novel, or paint a […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Doc, Doc Edge, Doc Edge Fest, Doco, Documentary, Documentary Edge Festival, Documentary Review, Film, Film Festival, Film Review, Holocaust, https://festival.docedge.nz/film/saul-and-rubys-holocaust-survivor-band/, Movie, Movie Review, Music, Poland, Ruby, Saul, Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band, Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band: Film, This year’s Documentary Edge Festival is all online – Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band  is part of the program, Tod Lending ·

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June 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

#UNFIT – The Psychology of Donald Trump: Film

#UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump Director: Dan Partland Spectrum / Documentary Edge Festival The current sitting president of America – their 45th – is a horrible, uncaring, negative, double-speaking piece of shit. Or, in psychology-speak, a malignant narcissist. Yep, there’s a term for his brand of bullying and gaslighting – mixed with fear, arrogance, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged #UNFIT - The Psychology of Donald Trump: Film, #UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump, A Psychological Thriller, Doc, Doc Edge, Doco, Documentary, Documentary Edge, Documentary Edge Festival, Documentary Film, Donald Trump, Edge, Fest, Festival, Film, Film Review, Malignant Narcissist, Movie, Movie Review, The Psychology of Donald Trump, Unfit, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

To Be Or Not To Be: Film

To Be Or Not To Be Director: Jing Chen (Independent) A short film – merely a conversation of just 11 minutes – but it screens as part of a series of shorts at the Doc Edge Festival – To Be Or Not To Be is a snapshot of the busking-career, motivations, influences and frustrations of […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Busker, Doc, Doco Short, Documentary Edge Festival, Film, Film Review, Jing Chen, Luke Hurley, Movie, Movie Review, Musician, Short Film, Shorts, The Launchpad, To Be Or Not To Be: Film, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 2, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Documentary Edge Festival 2018: Programme Announced

The always-wonderful Documentary Edge Festival returns for 2018 with screenings in Wellington (09 – 20 May, Roxy Cinema) and Auckland (23 May – 04 Junes, Q Theatre) with a range of docs from New Zealand and abroad. Music, gender, politics, life – documentaries on a single subject, films that cover many things – shorts (9 mins) […]
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May 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Whitney, Can I Be Me: Film

Whitney, Can I Be Me Director: Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal Lafayette Films/Passion Pictures/Showtime Networks A subtly powerful documentary that gets its strength and credibility through the use of footage from a never-before-seen fly-on-the-wall 1999 tour doco (that’s Dolezal’s footage, hence the co-directing credit), it seems important to get out of the way, right away, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Bobby Brown, Can I Be Me: Film, Can I Be Me?, Cissy Houston, Clive Davis, Diva, Doc, Doco, Documentary, Documentary Edge, Documentary Edge Festival, Film, Film Festival, Film Review, Movie, Movie Review, Nick Broomfield, Pop Music, Robyn Crawford, Rudi Dolezal, Soul Train, Whitney, Whitney Can I Be Me, Whitney Houston ·

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May 18, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Maya Angelou And Still I Rise: Film

Maya Angelou And Still I Rise Directors: Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack An American Masters presentation/Poet’s Poet Media Group/WNET/ITVS Poet, essayist, memoirist, dancer, singer, storyteller, campaigner, protester, advocate, actor, the great Maya Angelou was an inspiration to many – and towering presence in African-American literature and culture. As a political totem for race and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged And Still I Rise, Caged Bird, Calypso, Doc, Doc Edge, Documentary, Documentary Edge, Documentary Edge Festival, Feminist, Film, Film Review, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou And Still I Rise, Maya Angelou And Still I Rise: Film, Movie, Movie Review, Poem, Poetry, Politics ·

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May 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Hello I Am David!: Film

Hello I Am David! Director: Cosima Lange Basis berlin Filmproduktion/Beleza Film For so many people, the introduction to David Helfgott was the movie Shine – in retrospect, if not at that time, that film seems to be more about Geoffrey Rush’s performance than the actual story of Helfgott, Australian pianist who rebuilt his career after […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Classical, David Helfgott, Doc Edge, Doco, Documentary Edge Festival, Documentary Review, Film, Film Review, Gillian Helfgott, Hello I Am David!, Hello I Am David!: Film, Love Story, Movie, Movie Review, Music, Music Doco, Piano, Shine, Travel, Travel Documentary ·

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May 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Norman Lear – Just Another Version of You: Film

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You Directors: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Loki Films/Thirteen/WNET He’s 93 and sharp as anything – and what a life of impact – Norman Lear is one of the greatest minds to have ever worked in television. A showrunner for so many big-deal TV shows in America in the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1970s, All In The Family, America, Archie Bunker, Doc, Doc Edge, Doco, Documentary, Documentary Edge Festival, Film, Film Review, Good Times, Just Another Version of You, Maude, Movie Review, Mpvie, Norman Lear, Norman Lear - Just Another Version of You: Film, Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You, Producer, Sanford and Son, Showrunner, Television, The Jeffersons, TV, TV writer, Writer ·

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May 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Requiem For The American Dream: Film

Requiem For The American Dream Directors: Peter D. Hutchison/Kelly Nyks/Jared P. Scott Naked City Pictures/PF Pictures/Gravitas Ventures Released last year (and – it has to be said, already available on Netflix) this film couldn’t feel more relevant than right now if it tried, in the build-up to the American election, with the news that Trump […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged America, Auckland, Chomsky, Discussion, Doco, Doco Fest, Documentary, Documentary Edge Festival, Edge, Film, Film Review, Finance, Movie, Noam Chomsky, Polemic, Politics, Q, Requiem For The American Dream, Requiem For The American Dream: Film, Roxy, Talk, Wellington ·

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May 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Sound of Her Guitar: Film

The Sound of Her Guitar Director: Bill Morris Wild Islands Media I’ve enjoyed some of Donna Dean’s music but I really enjoyed this version of her life story, a documentary about her travel through America, her early life in New Zealand, the redemptive power of the country music she sought out as both means to […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Akld, America, Auckland, Bill Morris, Country, Country Music, Doc Edge, Doco, Documentary, Documentary Edge Festival, Donna Dean, Film, Film Review, Movie, Movie Review, Music Documentary, New Zealand Music, NZ, Q, Roxy, The Sound of Her Guitar: Film, Travel, Wellington, Wgtn ·
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