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The HeyUGuys Interview: Producer Simon Chinn talks Project Nim and Academy Awards

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Producer Simon Chinn may not be the man who takes all the plaudits as such, but his meticulous eye for a good story has seen him behind some of the finest documentaries in recent years. He has worked on Man on Wire, The Imposter and Searching for Sugarman – and it’s his brilliant feature length [...]




The HeyUGuys Interview: Jason Becker

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Jason Becker inspires something akin to awe in his army of fans. So much so that one, producer/director Jesse Vile, aspired for fifteen years to make a film about him. And, when the time came, several hundred more came forward with the cash to make it happen. Their devotion could be attributed to any one [...]




Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet Review

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Jason Becker is a rock legend. A virtuoso shred guitarist who had earned the respect of the industry’s finest and landed the greatest gig on earth by the age of nineteen. Jason Becker is an inspiration: his perseverance and dedication to his craft, in the face of unimaginable adversity, win him new fans every day. [...]




Jesse Vile Interview for Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet

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The UK opening of Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet on Friday 16th November marks another milestone in the difficult journey debut feature director Jesse Vile undertook to fulfill a promise to his 15-year-old self. That one day he would make a film about Jason Becker – the greatest shred guitarist in the world! Over the [...]




Sick – The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist DVD Review

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Kirby Dick’s documentary; Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist from 1997 is getting a re-release due to the fact that 3 particular minutes of somewhat disturbing footage have been added back into the film after being cut by the BBFC upon the film’s original release in 2001. Sadly the missing footage doesn’t add [...]




Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel Review

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2012 is turning into yet another banner year for the documentary film, and following on from those celebrated, character-centric works like Searching for Sugar Man and The Queen of Versailles, comes another equally absorbing portrait, this time covering the life of influential fashion editor, Diana Vreeland The filmmakers have struck gold with their subject matter [...]




Searching for Sugar Man Interview – Rodriguez and Malik Bendjelloul

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As one of the most eagerly anticipated documentaries of the year prepares for its nationwide release on July 26th – HeyUGuys’ Stefan Pape was fortunate enough to catch up with the director of the feature Malik Bendjelloul, and the subject himself; Rodriguez. Searching for Sugar Man depicts the extraordinary tale of Rodriguez, a forgotten musician from the [...]




Fastest Blu-ray Review

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Who’s fastest? That’s the question explored in the latest MotoGP documentary from filmmaker Mark Neale, his follow-up to Faster and The Doctor, The Tornado and the Kentucky Kid. Motorsports have been featured in a few docs recently, with TT3D: Closer to the Edge and Senna having been released in the last year or so. Great [...]




New Documentary Film Announced Telling The Story of the UK Games Industry

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A new film has been announced by Filmmakers Anthony Caulfield & Nicola Caulfield called From Bedrooms To Billions, which aims to tell the story of the UK games industry from 1979 – 1996. The tag line for the movie is ‘ A scientific Curiosity That Sparked A Revolution’  And no truer word has been said, If [...]




Ghost Recon Gets Documentary Trailer

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Take a look at this rather epic Ghost Recon: Future soldier Trailer. Sure it’s your normal story driven trailer, but unlike most you see, this one is made up like a documentary. And it works really well. Check it out below




3 New Clips For Morgan Spurlock’s Mansome Documentary with Jason Bateman & Will Arnett

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With his Comic-Con documentary, Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, heading to theatres in America earlier this month, Morgan Spurlock’s (Supersize Me) latest documentary, Mansome, is also set to be unveiled this month, and this week we have three new clips to show from it. Set to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on 21st [...]




‘For The Love’ Trailer – A Documentary on Sam Waley-Cohen and The Cheltenham Gold Cup

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Cheltenham holds a very special place in my heart as it’s where I spent four years of my lief to attend university. Little did I know that when I was doing my Multimedia Computing degree, it would lead to me thinking up and starting my beloved HeyUGuys! Anyway, here we are now going full circle [...]




BAFTA Red Carpet Interview – Asif Kapadia, Director Senna

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Next we have our interview with the Director of Senna, Asif Kapadia which is up for three awards (see all our BAFTA coverage including the full winners list and other interviews here). Senna walked away with two awards this evening which we are very, very pleased about! MASSIVE congrats! ———————– At this stage now, walking [...]




As the BBC Go Dickens Crazy Why Not Go Mental With Derek Jacobi This Christmas in Charles Dickens’ England?

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Are you the type of person who likes watching the stimulating highlights over the real thing? Do you always want to get straight into the filthy action without any of the messing around? Do you like people going on and on about Charles Dicken’s no matter how incompetently? Well Ultra Culture has recently solved your [...]




VAFF 2011 – Resident Aliens – Review

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Resident Aliens, follows the lives of ‘KK,’ ‘China,’ and ‘Looney’  Cambodian refugees turn gang members living in Long Beach, California, who after committing serious felonies are deported back to Cambodia, far from the United States — the only home they had ever known. We soon learn they are among hundreds of other refugees who are [...]




Tabloid Review

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Joyce McKinney is a woman with a lot of love to give and in 1977 she found a man to devote herself to completely. This man was Kirk Anderson and according to Joyce the two fell madly in love. The only problem was that Kirk Anderson was a Mormon and following their whirlwind romance Kirk [...]




VIFF 2011 – Nash: The Documentary – REVIEW

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Vancouver, CANADA – If you don’t follow the NBA, you probably have never heard of Steve Nash, though perhaps you’ve seen him in some other form. The man endorses Vitamin Water, appears in Nike ads, and most recently became a documentarian with the film ‘Into the Wind,’ based on the life of Canadian humanitarian Terry [...]




Just Do It: A Tale Of Modern Day Outlaws – Review

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Through the camera lens of Emily James, we get a first-hand account of the direct action of a variety of environmental activists, who variously chain themselves together outside RBS, set up a camp in Trafalgar Square, break into a coal-fired power station and attend rallies in Copenhagen. But will any of this effect any change [...]




2011 – On The Brink of a Golden Age for Documentaries?

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Right now, word is spreading that we are on the brink of “a golden age” of documentaries. Asif Kapadia’s “Senna” has demonstrated how innovative feature-documentaries can perform well at the box-office; in just one month it has earned £2,803,182.  “Life in a Day” proves how access to technology can provide a global platform for otherwise [...]




Watch 10 Minutes of Senna in 6 New Clips

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Senna is released in UK cinemas today and I’ve been banging on about the world seeing it ever since I caught a very early screening of it at SXSW this year. It’s finally here for all to see and I’m so pleased that pretty much every single review of the documentary directed by Asif Kapadia [...]