Doc/Fest 2013 Coverage: Day One

Welcome to A Mighty Fine Blog's coverage of this year's Doc/Fest, coming to you live from in and around and up and down Sheffield's fabled streets and hills. I'll be updating the blog constantly over the next few days with brief capsule reviews of everything I see, assorted musings on the festival itself, and, depending on how sleep-deprived I become as the week goes on, surrealistic vignettes about pasties. I'll also probably do a final post on Monday with my final thoughts on the highs, the lows and the rich, creamy middles.

Doc/Fest 2013 Coverage: Intro

This week is a most thrilling and exciting one in my little corner of the Internet. Not because of the impending release of Zak Snyder's Man of Steel, a film which I have very mixed and tentative feelings about. No, the reason I'm excited represents the exact opposite Snyder's opus, because right in the middle of a summer season awash with big, booming spectacle and fantasy, I'm going to spend five glorious days watching films dedicated to the real world, or something very much like it.

Yes, it's time for Sheffield's Doc/Fest, one of the biggest and brightest documentary festivals in the world, and I am delighted to say that I am going to be covering it, both on my lonesome and in partnership with my comrade-in-pod Joe Gastineau of The Wooden Kimono and Shot/Reverse Shot. Expect plenty of words, both written and spoken, to spill out onto this space over the next couple of days.