Superior batch of films for Canberra audiences in this year's Stronger than Fiction documentary film festival

By Jane Freebury
Updated July 23 2016 - 4:25pm, first published 12:15am
<I>The Music of Strangers</I>. Photo: supplied
<I>The Music of Strangers</I>. Photo: supplied
<I>Janis: Little Girl Blue</I> in Stronger Than Fiction. Photo: supplied
<I>Janis: Little Girl Blue</I> in Stronger Than Fiction. Photo: supplied
<I>Jim: the James Foley Story</I> in Stronger Than Fiction. Photo: supplied
<I>Jim: the James Foley Story</I> in Stronger Than Fiction. Photo: supplied

Two years ago, a bitter-sweet documentary about the backing singers behind stars like Jagger, Sting, Springsteen and Bowie won the Oscar for best documentary. Not only did the Morgan Neville doco, 20 Feet from Stardom, beat The Square, about upheavals in Egypt's 'Arab spring', it also beat The Act of Killing, about the murderous political realities in Indonesia in the 1960s. It was the story of vocalists in the shadow of fame that won the day instead.

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