The American Cinematheque’s This Is Not a Fiction festival, which kicks off this week in Los Angeles, has emerged as something truly special in the documentary exhibition space. The third edition of the event, running April 16-24, will welcome some of the biggest names in nonfiction filmmaking, among them Barbara Kopple, Gianfranco Rosi, Ross McElwee, Caveh Zahedi, Liz Garbus and more.
The festival is offering a complete retrospective of Rosi’s work, which includes the Oscar-nominated Fire at Sea (2016), and his latest film, Pompei: Below the Clouds. Kopple, a two-time Oscar winner, will appear for a screening of Harlan County, USA, marking that film’s 50th anniversary, as well as a 4K restoration of her documentary American Dream.
On the new edition of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, we’re joined by American Cinematheque film programmer Cindy Flores to discuss the festival lineup. She tells us about honoring the late Frederick Wiseman with a screening of
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