Venice: After a fourteen-year absence, McElwee returns to filmmaking with an affecting tribute to his son’s life that doubles as a reflective, career-spanning culmination of his life’s work. While ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it was released in 1986, “Sherman’s March” announced McElwee as a practitioner of a then relatively new form of first-person ...

If North Carolina is Eden, tobacco is the serpent, the bright green leaf which can look so beautiful lying on the ground but causes so much suffering and death. Filmmaker and North Carolina native ...

FRONTLINE showcases the latest work of filmmaker Ross McElwee, producer of the widely acclaimed 'Sherman's March' and 'Time Indefinite.' In Six O'clock News,' McElwee and his camera investigate the ...

All too often, nonfiction filmmakers set out to document what they already believe to be true. Ross McElwee allows himself to be distracted from his goal, taking pleasure in getting sidetracked along ...

Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams has much to celebrate this weekend. His first narrative/fiction film, Cassandro, opens theatrically today. And he has just been named the recipient of the ...

Ross McElwee has papers to grade. The man widely regarded as one of America’s greatest documentary filmmakers has just returned to his teaching job at Harvard University after touring Europe with his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before the video diary became the en vogue format of personal expression on YouTube and social media platforms like TikTok, ...

Exclusive: Music Box Films has acquired the documentarian's most popular film, as well as his latest, for release later this year. When it was released in 1986, “Sherman’s March” announced McElwee as ...