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Inexorable progress... scene from The March of the Penguins, one of the biggest documentary hits of recent years. Photo: Kobal Keble College, Oxford: the assembled documentary film-makers and shakers at the annual Britdoc festival are learning to play the ukelele. In a sweaty upstairs cabaret room, two men in viscose suits called Sam and Donal conduct their 50-piece orchestra in a tentative minute of open-stringed strumming. "That's C6!", they instruct. Outside, the college bar is hosting a Handlebar Moustache Disco. The hour is getting late. Ukelele retraining may or may not be the way forward for the struggling documentarian - of whom, perhaps thanks to digital technologies, there seems to be an increasing supply. At an afternoon masterclass on the perils of selling the form, Britdoc's CEO Jess Search unveiled research... [read full story]
