Documentaries online

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, many scholars are sharing resources for online teaching.
Below you can find a list of platforms and resources.

You can also check our Twitter account here: https://twitter.com/DocumentaryFest

Thanks to scholars from different universities for their contributions, and the Visible Evidence listerv.

 

FESTIVALS GO ONLINE

Festival Scope platform is hosting many festivals’ programs: https://www.festivalscope.com

Cinéma du Réel: https://www.festivalscope.com/all/festival/cinema-du-reel/2020

Visions du reel: https://www.visionsdureel.ch/

IDFA: https://www.idfa.nl/en/info/watch-films-online

 

ONLINE PLATFORMS (info provided  by: Eric Sasono, Robert Y. Chang)
  • Documentary/experimental and avant garde

http://steps.co.za/

 

  • Public broadcasting services:

Viddsee https://www.viddsee.com/genre/documentary   Southeast Asian Documentary

POV’s Playlist – https://www.amdoc.org/watch/pov-playlist/ — biweekly curated playlist
POV & America ReFramed – https://www.amdoc.org/watch/ — documentaries that broadcast on POV or America ReFramed currently available for streaming

 

 

Eco-cinema and environmental themed documentaries

the DC based Environmental Film Festival just made their entire festival offerings available (by Topiary Landberg):

INDIAN DOCUMENTARIES

Indian documentaries made for the Doordarshan & Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) in their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCatvanR4_Y5u9_Ij-2z0QzA

A three-part ethnographic film series on Indian masculinities (made for PSBT) (open-access on Vimeo). Keywords: India, gender, migration, religion, Indian cinema and/or ethnographic film. More info: https://www.harjantgill.com

 

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