Sophie Brown is a documentary programmer and a programme advisor for the BFI London Film Festival. She contributes to the Sheffield Doc/Fest programme and writes regularly for Sight & Sound.
Articles by Sophie Brown
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Feminine anger surges through some of 2019’s best documentary subjects, from one filmmaker’s firebrand mother to a pioneering news photographer and a duo scraping a living in rural Macedonia, writes Sophie Brown.
Monday, September 16, 2019
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From the Magazine
Documentaries without borders at Mexico’s roving Ambulante 2019
Mexico’s multi-location documentary showcase takes a bold and questioning approach to the film form and to the nature of festivals themselves, reports Sophie Brown.
Thursday, July 11, 2019
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Seven takes on truth and transparency at Hot Docs 2019
How successfully do the documentaries at one of the world’s biggest nonfiction festivals construct their truths, and give a voice to the voiceless, asks Sophie Brown.
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
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Dreaming an altered future at True/False 2019
Columbia, Missouri’s brilliantly irregular gem of a festival was especially provocative this year, dissolving boundaries and asking challenging questions, not just about the documentary form but about art, activism and our collective agency, writes Sophie Brown.
Thursday, March 14, 2019
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Erick Stoll on América: “We all have a responsibility to care for one another”
When a documentary subject suddenly had to start looking after his elderly grandmother, the filmmakers followed him and his brothers through this new, often painful challenge instead. The result is a remarkably warm and sensitive movie. Sophie Brown spoke to one fo the directors.
Thursday, February 7, 2019
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Film highlights of Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018
The 25th edition of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival was something of a feast of new nonfiction. We invited five of our contributors in attendance to tip us to their top finds.
Thursday, July 5, 2018
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Podcast: Six highlights of Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018
Kelli Weston hosts a conversation with Sophie Brown, Simran Hans and Ben Nicholson to discuss some of the picks of this year’s Sheffield documentary festival.
Thursday, July 5, 2018
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Better caring through documentary?
Aspirations to documentary ‘objectivity’ may now be aesthetically discredited – but don’t they also miss a trick emotionally? Sophie Brown considers six recent exemplars of nonfiction outreach and tenderness that might be a model for the palliative-care worlds they explore.
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
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Steady on the wing: how Ramia Suleiman completed Leonard Retel Helmrich’s The Long Season
Filming life in a Lebanese refugee camp for displaced Syrian families, single-shot cinema master Leonard Retel Helmrich needed a like-skilled female collaborator to shoot where he couldn’t. Come the edit, he suffered a heart attack. Ramia Suleiman tells Sophie Brown how she filled the breach.
Friday, March 9, 2018
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My Point Break quest: “It was about us against the system”
Sophie Brown’s search for the rights to screen Kathryn Bigelow’s surf classic seemed to be all washed up, but suddenly the tide turned, and now Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves’s Bodhi and Johnny can return to British screens.
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
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