The year of 2010 saw quite some interesting documentaries touching diverse subjects and effectively at that.
Oscar 2011 is bound to get all heated up with competition in the best documentary category this year.
The trend as usual continues with many good films, most average films, reasonable number of bad films and few master pieces.
But when it comes to documentaries, they are usually on the mark considering the dedication, sincerity and earnestness with which these works of nonfiction are made.
Oscar 2011 should see quite a competition among the selected documentaries to get the top slot.
As for which are the ones to make the final cut only the nearing time will tell.
The list is big for there were indeed many a good documentaries that we came across last year.
Last Train Home by Lixin Fan is a brilliant portrayal of common Chinese people that strive like innumerable more and similar lives in the other developing countries.
They endeavor and toil night and day just for a better future.
They dream of this future which if not they then their little ones will later on live on their behalf.
The documentary follows the lives of the Zhangs who have left behind their daughter in village.
They have gone to work in the city of Guangzhou in a garment factory.
They make an annual trip to their village which is only when they meet up with their daughter Qin, who in the mean time is growing by the day.
This one may just about shine big time this Oscar 2011.
A Small Act by Jennifer Arnold follows the life of Chris Mburu who got a good education and graduated from Harvard Law School.
He later on went to become a United Nations Human Rights Commissioner.
All this was possible for a monthly sponsor of $15 by a German Jew teacher, 85 year old Hilde Back.
A diligent and beautiful account of how kindness still exists still in some human hearts and how they make for gallant and legendary tales; how they make the impossible possible.
Chris Smith, directed Collapse that follows the thinking of controversial author Michael Ruppert.
He talks of political corruption, policies, energy crisis and how in turn they are resulting in the mass collapse of global civilization.
The documentary tends to get disturbing at many times and does have you in a grave and reflective mood at the end of it.
45365 by debuting directors and siblings Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross is another one to look forward to.
Both of them bring to the screen an essence of the life they lived in Sidney, Ohio.
The directors simply place cameras everywhere which naturally and truly capture the daily chore and activities as happening in the lives of people in the town.
The work is rather potent and smooth in its flow at the same time effortlessly impactful.
There are still others in the list that should make it to become among the highs of Oscar 2011 Art of the Steal by Don Argott is another strong contender.
The Inside Job by Charles H.
Ferguson with the voice over by superstar Matt Damon sheds light on the recent economic crisis that simply rattled the world.
Waiting for Superman by Davis Guggenheim gives an insight on the American public education systems and the lives of many little students.
Oscar 2011 is bound to get all heated up with competition in the best documentary category this year.
The trend as usual continues with many good films, most average films, reasonable number of bad films and few master pieces.
But when it comes to documentaries, they are usually on the mark considering the dedication, sincerity and earnestness with which these works of nonfiction are made.
Oscar 2011 should see quite a competition among the selected documentaries to get the top slot.
As for which are the ones to make the final cut only the nearing time will tell.
The list is big for there were indeed many a good documentaries that we came across last year.
Last Train Home by Lixin Fan is a brilliant portrayal of common Chinese people that strive like innumerable more and similar lives in the other developing countries.
They endeavor and toil night and day just for a better future.
They dream of this future which if not they then their little ones will later on live on their behalf.
The documentary follows the lives of the Zhangs who have left behind their daughter in village.
They have gone to work in the city of Guangzhou in a garment factory.
They make an annual trip to their village which is only when they meet up with their daughter Qin, who in the mean time is growing by the day.
This one may just about shine big time this Oscar 2011.
A Small Act by Jennifer Arnold follows the life of Chris Mburu who got a good education and graduated from Harvard Law School.
He later on went to become a United Nations Human Rights Commissioner.
All this was possible for a monthly sponsor of $15 by a German Jew teacher, 85 year old Hilde Back.
A diligent and beautiful account of how kindness still exists still in some human hearts and how they make for gallant and legendary tales; how they make the impossible possible.
Chris Smith, directed Collapse that follows the thinking of controversial author Michael Ruppert.
He talks of political corruption, policies, energy crisis and how in turn they are resulting in the mass collapse of global civilization.
The documentary tends to get disturbing at many times and does have you in a grave and reflective mood at the end of it.
45365 by debuting directors and siblings Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross is another one to look forward to.
Both of them bring to the screen an essence of the life they lived in Sidney, Ohio.
The directors simply place cameras everywhere which naturally and truly capture the daily chore and activities as happening in the lives of people in the town.
The work is rather potent and smooth in its flow at the same time effortlessly impactful.
There are still others in the list that should make it to become among the highs of Oscar 2011 Art of the Steal by Don Argott is another strong contender.
The Inside Job by Charles H.
Ferguson with the voice over by superstar Matt Damon sheds light on the recent economic crisis that simply rattled the world.
Waiting for Superman by Davis Guggenheim gives an insight on the American public education systems and the lives of many little students.