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In this area of our new website, we're going to collect articles written by Ben Kempas as well as articles about our film projects written by others.

Dead Ducks and Digital Dust

DocAgora events promise to be at the forefront when it comes to talking about the digital future of documentaries. But when six pioneers discuss "The Auteur vs. Collective Authorship" at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto, it's difficult not to get lost in the much-quoted "digital dust". By Ben Kempas

You can find this article in DOX #71.

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Selling Silence

An almost 3-hour-long documentary about a monastery with no narration, where even the monks are silent: at first glance, these key features of Philip Gröning's film Into Great Silence don't sound quite like every distributor's dream. Yet the film has become a huge success with German audiences. The documentary has been in cinemas for over a year now. How did they do it? DOX investigates. By Ben Kempas

> Ben's article in DOX #68 (external PDF - disclaimer)
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Ben writes for TIFF Doc Blog

Ben is a contributor to the Doc Blog published on the website of the Toronto International Film Festival 2008.

> Ben's posts on Doc Blog (external link - disclaimer)
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River's Issues Told on Film

Article about our latest project, UPSTREAM BATTLE.

> Daily Triplicate (external link - disclaimer)

German Film Crew Documents Tribes' Fight for Salmon

This how the newspaper of the Hoopa Valley Tribe reported on our documentary shoot in their valley.

> Hoopa People (article on page 6) (external PDF - disclaimer)

Give me an HD coffee break

Sunny Side of the Doc has found a new home in La Rochelle, and the 2006 edition was all about the arrival of High Definition. The omnipresent HD fever has not caught on with the DOX reporter yet. By Ben Kempas.

> Ben's article in DOX #66 (external PDF - disclaimer)
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