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Thursday, June 21, 2012

POV @ 25: JENNIFER FOX AND CRISTINA IBARRA ON DOC FILMMAKING AS AN ACT OF FAITH | Filmmaker Magazine

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By Nick Dawson in Web Exclusives on Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

"In celebration of the 25th season of PBS’ groundbreaking documentary series POV, Filmmaker is this week running a four-part conversation series between two non-fiction directors with close ties to the show. A few weeks ago, acclaimed documentarian Jennifer Fox — whose 20-year project, My Reincarnation, kicks off the 2012 POV season this Thursday — and The Last Conquistador director Cristina Ibarra, a relative newcomer to the non-fiction scene, sat down to talk about a variety of issues that arise from their work. Despite radically different backgrounds and, at the time of the conversation, being literally continents apart — NYC resident Fox was in Amsterdam, talking to Ibarra over Skype — the two found much common ground and dug in deep in their discussion of the documentary craft.

In this penultimate part, the two directors discuss the extent to which making a non-fiction film is, by necessity, an act of faith...."

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