Montreal filmmaker Alison McAlpine says she hopes her Oscar-nominated film “Perfectly a Strangeness” helps broaden the definition of documentary storytelling. The dreamlike, stylized film follows ...

When Montreal filmmaker Alison McAlpine first noticed a group of donkeys ambling around an observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, she couldn’t help but wonder what they were thinking.

The surreal Oscar-nominated short about three animals discovering a mountaintop astronomical observatory blends science and spirituality to unlock the secrets of our cosmic universe. By Etan Vlessing ...

Nominated for Best Documentary Short Film at the 98th Academy Awards, perfectly a strangeness marks the first short from ...

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Alison McAlpine made the most of her recent visit to Los Angeles for the Oscar Luncheon. While in town earlier this month, the Montreal-based director of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Alison McAlpine made the most of her recent visit to Los Angeles for the Oscar ...

The five Oscar-nominated doc shorts pack a lot of punch into their brief time on screen. The filmmakers talked to Variety about their documentaries. All the Empty Rooms. Joshua Se ...

The restoration of the brothers’ rapid-fire shorts show they were even bigger cinema pioneers than previously realised ...

She’s not the slightest bit squeamish about a bit of claret.” Outside my penthouse flat, a gang of mercenaries are squabbling about how to kidnap my son. As I get to the window, I see them shoot my ...

The Oscar telecast begins 7 p.m. Sunday, March 15 — note the earlier time — on ABC (locally Channel 6), and I can’t think of a drabber, more mediocre year for motion pictures. Of the 10 nominees for ...