Planet In Focus
Planet In Focus Review: 'When Lambs Become Lions' Documents Complex Ivory Trade
Directed by Jon Kasbe
PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2018
Jon Kasbe's first feature documentary, When Lambs Become Lions, is a stunning, complicated portrait of a Kenyan community entangled in the...
Planet In Focus Review: 'For the Birds' Glosses over Hoarding Issues
Directed By Richard Miron
PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2018
For the Birds begins with home footage of Kathy Murphy and her husband Gary with a single motherless baby duck they found in their yard, an...
Canary in the Mine
Danielle Heifa
PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2012
Generally speaking, documentaries are intended to observe and document without prejudice, allowing the topic and its subjects to flow organ...
Trashed
Candida Brady
PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2012
Trashed opens with a highly stylized credit sequence, dramatically highlighting the many dangerous substances thrown in the titular trash a...
As Above, So Below
Sarah J. Christman
PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2012
In this thoughtful film essay, Sarah J. Christman investigates the ever-changing nature of matter, both personal and public. Everything is...
Chasing Ice
Jeff Orlowski
PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2012
There's something formulaic about starting a film by showing a slew of archival news clips showing various right-wing pundits, the likes of...
Cerro Rico, Tierra Rica
Juan Vallejo
PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2012
In an effort to capture the quotidian reality of the mining life in southwestern Bolivia, Juan Vallejo's mostly silent, experiential docume...
Just Do It: A Tale of Modern Outlaws
Emily James
PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2012
Aptly titled Just Do It, which, in addition to being a corporate slogan, implies action without thought, this self-proclaimed tale of moder...
