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I went to Sheffield Doc/Fest last week. It’s a film festival especially for documentaries and I saw a number of rocking films. My special pick was Junior, which is about the most gripping character-based doc I’ve ever seen, thanks to the uniqueness of the central characters Eddie Belasco (75) and his “Ma” (98), who have [...]

I thought it was about time I mentioned that I’m quitting my job and going back to university. I will be finishing at Estates Gazette (which, in case you didn’t know, is where I work) on August 14 and will, from September, be studying for an MA in television documentary production at the University of [...]

The concept of It Felt Like A Kiss isn’t especially easy to pin down in words. Which in my book is no bad thing. The production, developed by documentary film maker Adam Curtis, Felix Barrett and installation theatre company Punchdrunk, premieres at the Manchester International Festival tonight. It straddles the line between video documentary, theatre and art installation [...]