Frame by Frame

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Frame by Frame

2015

1h 25m

Documentary

War

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After decades of war and the rule of the Taliban, four Afghani photojournalists work to build a free press.

Peter Keough

Boston Globe

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It follows four of these journalists as they travel throughout the country, often in danger, to record its variety, beauty, pathos, and resilience. Defined by tyranny and war for decades, Afghanistan takes on its own identity through their lenses.

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Craig Mathieson

Sydney Morning Herald

Jul 21

4/5

Alexandria Bombach and Mo Scarpelli's film examines the difficulties – alternately intimate and nationwide, but often involving personal risk – currently faced by photojournalists in Afghanistan.

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Mary Tuma

Austin Chronicle

05/18/2016

Frame by Frame stands as a reminder of photography's importance to cultural identity and preservation, freedom of expression, and ultimately, the quest for truth.

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Joshua Brunsting

The CriterionCast

Jul 21

A nation with important history, and an energy that just needs to be allowed to come to life. And life is what this documentary has flowing out of every frame.

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

01/15/2021

Photographs help us learn of their stories by simply accounting for their existence.

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Nick Evan-Cook

One Room With A View

04/19/2019

3/5

The uplifting and humanistic Frame by Frame gives us some admirable insight into the practitioners behind the new-found journalistic freedom in a post-Taliban Afghanistan.

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04/05/2016

Solid, thoughtful reporting on the frightening struggles of Afghan journalists.

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Synopsis

After decades of war and the rule of the Taliban, four Afghani photojournalists work to build a free press.

Director: Alexandria Bombach, Mo Scarpelli
Producer: Alexandria Bombach, Jeff Orlowski-Yang, Mo Scarpelli
Screenwriter: Mo Scarpelli, Alexandria Bombach
Genre: Documentary, War
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 29, 2019
Runtime: 1h 25m