UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art

Following its successful World Premiere at IDFA last month, UnionDocs advisor Hilke Schellmann and Habiba Nosheen’s ”Outlawed in Pakistan,” will be one of 65 short films selected for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. “Outlawed in Pakistan” follows the story of Kainat Soomro, a...

James T. Hong is on to something. At the conclusion of the hour-long discussion that followed his Sunday night screening at UnionDocs, a friend turned to me and said: “I think I found a new hero”. That exhilaration, shared by myself and, it seemed, everyone I spoke with, is ...

It is no secret that most of the time, humanitarian, social issue documentaries are formally shallow. This is a result of different sets of priorities. Most of the people who make these sorts of films view the medium as a means to an end — a popular, digestible medium with which to...

Last Sunday, UnionDocs co-presented, alongside Red Channels and DocTruck, a screening of Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino’s Hour of the Furnaces at 16Beaver. The film, released in 1968, is a three-part, four-hour-plus indictment of the neocolonialist exploitation of Argentina, an account...

As a sequel to The Yes Men (2003), The Yes Men Fix The World is more Die Hard 2 than Aliens. Directing themselves, anti-corporate jesters Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum pick up where Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, and Chris Smith left off, continuing their adventures in slightly different settings...