Andy Cline

The Panopticon Age of Documentaries Is Here Video is now being captured of everyone and everything, and two of the contenders for documentary honors at Sunday’s Oscars—‘The Perfect Neighbor’ and ‘The Alabama Solution’—make fundamental use of it...

Documentary film (and ethics) in the age where everything is captured all the time: #documentary www.theringer.com/2026/03/12/m...

Concept for Os Marnotos documentary YouTube video by Eyewitness by Andy Cline

Progress! I finished editing the title sequence this weekend. This week, I start editing the balance of the Os Marnotos. Runtime estimate is 20 mins. Here's the concept video I'm working from. #documentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMzp...

Mandy Chang Becomes Documentary Film Council CEO Mandy Chang has becomee the Documentary Film Council CEO, having overseen Storyville and Fremantle during her career.

"Former Fremantle and Storyville docs supremo Mandy Chang has joined the UK’s Documentary Film Council (DFC) as its first-ever CEO." #filmindustry deadline.com/2026/03/mand...

New documentary 'Immutable' follows student debate team as they find their voices The new documentary “Immutable” follows students in the Washington Urban Debate League over two years as they face challenges in their own lives and on the debate stage. In the program, students learn...

"A new documentary called "Immutable" follows students in the Washington Urban Debate League over a two-year period as they faced challenges in their own lives and on the debate stage." #documentary www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

The 2026 Oscar-nominated documentaries are sensitive and transformative This year's Oscar-nominated documentaries include a tale of terminal cancer, dispatches from behind bars in Alabama, and stories from Iran and Russia.

NPR has you covered. #documentary #Oscars www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n...

‘Only Nazis ban books’: on the frontlines with students fighting Trump over higher education Documentary First They Came for My College goes inside the fight for academic freedom at Florida’s New College

The trailer seems to promise a direct cinema look at the situation. I hope it's not interview heavy (these can be disguised -- something I try to do in my own work of late). But, in any case, looks like another must-see. #documentary www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Post from Eyewitness by Andy Cline - YouTube Welcome to the eyewitness community! I'm not actually expecting much ;-) I may use this space as a way to keep a record of my progress on projects. For examp...

I implemented the "community" feature on my YouTube channel. I don't really need more things to post to. But, I'll give it a shot. youtube.com/post/UgkxzWu...

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Frederick Wiseman, Titan of Documentary Filmmaking, Dead at 96 Frederick Wiseman, a titan of cinema whose singular approach to observational documentaries inspired generations of younger filmmakers, has died at 96

Obit of an important #documentary filmmaker. “Essentially, what I have been doing...is a form of natural history. I try...to discover what kind of power relationships exist and differences between ideology and the practice in terms of the way people are treated.” www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

I like the details of #streetart and #graffitti as much as entire works. In this case, we have a "double exposure" of art and tagging on the medium of a typically #wabisabi wall in Portugal.

Stream These Documentaries on the Winter Olympics Going Back a Century

And another list. This time about the Winter Olympics. #documentary www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

BFI Boosts U.K. Documentary Filmmaking Funding Support by 20 Percent "Independent U.K. documentary is one of the most vital, truth-telling forces in our cultural life."

Must be nice. #documentary www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

The rain let up for a day, so I took a stroll around town with my camera. #Aveiro #Portugal

The 10 most thought-provoking war documentaries streaming on HBO Max Here are 10 essential war documentaries streaming on HBO Max, from 'Hearts and Minds' to 'Night and Fog'.

Yay! Another list. ew.com/best-war-doc...

Lorne Michaels Documentary From ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor’ Director Morgan Neville Sets April Release Date 'Lorne,' a documentary about Lorne Michaels from Oscar-winner Morgan Neville, will open in theaters in April.

Of course I'll watch this. I remember the first two seasons. I was in college. A big group of us always watched it in the dorm lounge. #documentary variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Closely related, IMO, is the whole civility industrial complex: Urging people without power to not make people with power feel uncomfortable. And, yes, that's exactly what it does even if that's not what its adherents intend. (yes, it does other things, too) #rhetoric #politicalspeech #freespeech

Long Train Runnin’ – Frame by Frame I no longer have my first SLR. It was a Nikon F, with the photomic head and a 50mm lens, that I bought used in 1974 while I was in high school. I carried it eve

I hold out hope that some camera company will always make a digital rangefinder. I have an old (and very beat up) Fujifilm X-E1 and a new (and not yet beat up) SONY a6400. #photography #newsphotography #documentaryphotography framebyframe.rhetorica.net/2026/02/14/l...

"Inmates Melvin Ray, Robert Earl Council, and Ricardo “Raoul” Poole, claim they are being punished for their association with advocates outside prison who called for an inmate work strike and called for prison reforms at press conferences in December and January." www.al.com/news/2026/02...

Louis Theroux Confirms Netflix Manosphere Documentary & Opens Mindhouse Podcast Division, As He Addresses Bob Vylan Pod Criticism: “I’m Willing To Have Difficult Conversations & Long May It Continue” Louis Theroux is making a Netflix Manosphere documentary after 'Adolescence' and has responded to the Bob Vylan British Airways criticism

“I hoped we’d get this feedback loop...affecting my approach to the story. Sometimes it was kind of embarrassing. I’d arrive back from filming trips and my kids would say, ‘Dad what you were doing? You got owned.’” deadline.com/2026/02/loui...

eyewitness bumper YouTube video by Eyewitness by Andy Cline

I finally settled on a bumper for eyewitness. The earlier tests I posted here did not use the official approved font of my vast and sprawling documentary film empire :-) So, for now, this is it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbDg...

Review: A beautiful town haunted by its own racism gets its close-up in 'Natchez' Sensitively directed by Suzannah Herbert, a documentary about a small plantation town's ugly past — and lingering present — reveals a South still in conflict.

I'm looking forward the seeing Natchez: "By turns cheeky and disturbing, blunt and nuanced, Suzannah Herbert’s excellent documentary “Natchez” offers its own guided tour of a memory-challenged community..." www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

BTW, number 10 on the list is The Overnighters (2014). It is on my personal list of top ten documentaries. I should write about why sometime :-)

28 Incredible Documentaries With The Most Shocking Endings "Once it was over, I just sat on my couch, staring into space, and it took like two days to fully recover."

Documentary news right now is Melania, Melania, Melania. In a futile attempt to break the cycle, here's yet another #documentary film list :-) www.buzzfeed.com/crystalro/do...

The Story of Documentary Film Review: The Art of Documenting Documentaries - POV Magazine The Story of Documentary Film review: Mark Cousins chronicles the history of cinema in his signature fashion with this look at the art of non-fiction.

Looking forward to this... #documentary povmagazine.com/the-story-of...

10 Great Black History Films to Watch This Or Any Month buff.ly/2nw5aG4

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The Quirks of the Best Documentary Category Tyler Coates examins why the best documentary has become the toughest Oscar category to predict in recent years.

Quirks is exactly the right word :-) #documentary #Oscars filmmakermagazine.com/133232-consi...

Rejecting Digital Perfection – Frame by Frame My Fujifilm X-E1 rangefinder is beat to shit. I've dropped it numerous times. I even broke a fall with it during a hike while using the monopod it was on as a w

Not long ago I wrote a bit about the who "rejecting digital perfection" thing. #photography #videography #cinematography framebyframe.rhetorica.net/2025/12/11/r...

Gigantes Verdes Concept Video YouTube video by Eyewitness by Andy Cline

I have another concept video to share of my current work. This is the one for Gigantes Verdes. I will continue filming this #documentary in 2026 and likely go into post-production sometime in early 2027. #Portugal #film #biodiversity www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2md...