Creating and Capturing Reality: The Director Takes Us Behind the Scenes of the NFB's Capturing Reality
POV, Summer 2009, no. 74, pp. 34- 37
Pepita Ferrari writes about his experience while making his documentary, Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary. In the article he lists the the films he's researched and the subjects he's interviewed while making the film. In the second half of the article, he describes his feelings of excitement and anxiety and hopes that his finished product will serve as a tribute to the genre and the NFB itself.
ITEM 2009.027 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary – Pepita Ferrari
Darwin's Nightmare – Hubert Sauper
A Place Called Chiapas – Nettie Wild
The Staircase – De Lestrade
The Selling of a Cereal Killer – Broomfeild
In the Realms of the Unreal – Jessica Yu
Le Roi du Drum – Serge Giguere
Bones of the Forest – Velcrow Ripper
The Underground Orchestra – Heddy Honigmann
The Day I will never Forget – Kim Longinotto
Little Dieter Needs to Fly – Werner Herzog
Lessons of Darkens – Werner Herzog
Reasons to Fly – Werner Herzog