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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Brimstone & Glory

Documentaries are often stigmatised as being dry, overly-dependent on factual information and nothing more than something you’d watch on TV. Obviously, that opinion is nonsense, but it’s fair to say…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Risk

Laura Poitras is one of the most highly regarded and respected documentary film makers working today. She’s also one of the most hard-working. No stranger to controversy, her last film…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Icarus

Cycling has always had an iffy reputation in terms of doping, but the admission by Lance Armstrong that he took performance enhancing drugs throughout his career jeopardised the credibility of…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Wilders

The last decade has seen a worrying trend in Western politics. The rise in popularity of right wing political parties and politicians culminated with Brexit and the election of Donald…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: City of Ghosts

There have been many documentaries made about the heroism and dedication of war correspondence and conflict photographers. However, with the changing face of news journalism and in the digital age,…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Chasing Coral

With the US pulling out of the Paris accord and the general antipathy of the new Administration to environmental issues, the future of our planet looks bleak. However, with the…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Unrest

What science and medicine can’t understand, often gets stigmatise. Sufferers of ME, or chronic fatigue syndrome, has been the recipients of a whole raft of negative labels. From hysteria to…

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Film Review: A Good Day to Die

War reporting is as much a vocation as an addiction. Most photographers and journalists seem to become hooked on the adrenaline and struggle to adapt to adapt to normal life.…

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Film Review: Destination Unknown

There have been so many documentaries made about the Holocaust that it would be a fair assumption to make that there’s very little new ground to cover. However, the lowest…

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Film Review: Freedom for the Wolf

Despite the dire straits of the current political situations in ‘First-World’ nations around the world, we generally take our freedoms for granted. Freedoms of speech, religion, belief etc are just…

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