“For renowned movie director and critic Thom Anderson, documentary films are the most powerful medium revealing the lives and cultures of other people.
Anderson, the head judge of the EBS International Documentary Festival (EIDF), says he enjoys watching and making documentaries because of their very nature.
There was a certain period when people didn’t like the word documentary. They thought it was limiting, but I was always proud to be a documentary filmmaker,” he said in an interview at the EBS headquarters in southern Seoul, Monday.
“For me, cinema is a way of revealing life, showing people how others live and also different cultures. When filmmakers can say `none of this is made up and they all come directly from life,’ that connection is particularly strong, and this (connection) can be found in documentary films,” he said.”
Read this article from Korea Times.
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