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Documentary Film Review Essays

Latin American Research Review commissions critical review essays covering between three and five documentary films related to Latin America. Unlike individual film reviews, the essays in LARR seek to address the state of the field or the broader theme connecting the documentary films, and not solely the works at issue. Review essays may be written in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.

Potential reviewers and essay proposals

We invite proposals for documentary film review essays. Proposals should be brief. Please identify the documentary films you wish to review, why you would make a good reviewer, and a summary of your credentials. Please send this information in a concise e-mail to Professor Antonio Gómez, documentary film review editor.

Call to directors, producers, and distributors

We invite documentary film directors, producers, and distributors to submit documentary films for our review essay section. LARR accepts films in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Films in other languages will be considered if they have subtitles in any of the three languages covered by LARR. Documentary films received will be considered for inclusion in a review essay, with the final selection determined by the interests of reviewers and the relevance of each title to the cluster for which it is considered. Filmmakers may send review copies to:

Professor Antonio Gómez
304B Newcomb Hall
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
United States
email: agomez@tulane.edu

Documentary film review essay style guide

Provide a title describing the general topic of your essay and place your name and affiliation below. Offer complete information for the documentary films under review at the start of the article. List the title, director, producer, country, date of release, length, distributor (if available), screening format (e.g., DVD), and webpage (if available). The films should be arranged in alphabetical order according to their title.

Example film list:

  1. Chacal: Proibido fazer poesia / Chacal: Forbidden to Write Poetry. Dir. Rodrigo Lopes de Barros. Prod. Guilherme Trielli Ribeiro and Rodrigo Lopes de Barros. Perf. Ricardo Chacal. Brazil, 2015, 25′. Blu-ray. Film is available by contacting the filmmaker directly at veraguth@gmail.com.
  2. El trotskismo bárbaro / Barbaric Trotskyism. Dir. Marcel Gonnet Wainmayer. Prod. Cinema do Polvo. Argentina, Peru, Brazil, 2015, 104′. Blu-ray. Film is available by contacting the filmmaker directly at marcelgonnet@gmail.com.
  3. Piedra libre / Women Dance Memories. Dir. Alejandra Vassallo and Pía Sicardi. Argentina, 2015, 72′. Blu-ray. Film is available at http://piedralibrepelicula.com.ar.
  4. Which Way Home. Dir. Rebecca Cammisa. Prod. Mr. Mudd Production in association with Documentress Films. USA, 2009, 90′. Film is available at WhichWayHome.net, Netflix, and Amazon.

For additional information about citing documentary films, see these guidelines from the Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley Library. For other matters of style, documentary film essays follow the format of book review essays.