The Factual and the Fictive
The Documentary Film Centre at the University of Westminster in London arranges in May 5 screenings and filmmaking discussions under the headline: The Factual and the Fictive: A series of screenings/talks exploring hybrid fiction/documentary film-making.
One session is dedicated to Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, another to Austrian Ulrich Seidl, one to Portuguese master Pedro Costa and his “In Vanda’s Room”, one to Werner Herzog led by his British coproducer and former commissioning editor André Singer, and finally a whole day is dedicated to pioneer political filmmaker Peter Watkins from “The War Game” (photo) to “La Commune”. With an understatement: a programme that is not bad at all.
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-2067