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From Albert Maysles and Antonio Ferrera's 'The Gates.' Photo: Wolfgang Volz (c) Christo 2005. Courtesy of Maysles Films
November 2005

The Docs of New York: Actuality in the Big Apple

Plus: 
Lyin' about Zion: Marc Levin's 'Protocols'
Sunnyside of the Doc
LA Film Festival
Russia's Message to Man
Prague's IFD

Features:
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A Rooftop Films screening in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Photo: Sarah Palmer/Rooftop Films
Documentary Grows in Brooklyn
By Michael Galinsky

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From 'Murderball (Dir./Prod.: Dana Adam Shapiro; Dir.: Henry Alex Rubin; Prod.: Jeffrey Mandel), which aired on A&E.
Ready, Willing and Cable: New York is the Nerve Center for Most Major Networks
By Simone Pero

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(c) Jeff Greenberg/NYC & Company, Inc. Courtesy of NYC Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting
New York Stories: Why Filmmakers Love the Big Apple
By Belinda Baldwin

Notes from the Reel World: The President's Column
By Richard Propper

On Hurricane Katrina, reporting and docmaking.

Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column
By Thomas White

The New York Issue: A Regional Profile

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From the WITNESS Media Archive. Photo: NYC Policewatch
WITNESS Launches Media Archive
By Tamara Krinsky

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© NYC & Company, Inc. Courtesy of NYC Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting
I'll Take Manhattan: New York City is Doc Central for Distributors--You Gotta Problem with That?
By Andrea Van Hook

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From Walker Evans 'Travel Notes' (1932), which he shot in Tahiti. Photo: Anthology Film Archives
'Unseen Cinema' Unveiled: Seven-DVD Set of Early Avant-Garde Rarities Released Through Image Entertainment
By Tamara Krinsky

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From Albert Maysles and Antonio Ferrera's 'The Gates.' Photo: Wolfgang Volz (c) Christo 2005. Courtesy of Maysles Films
Documentarians at 'The Gates': Maysles Does Christo--Once Again
By Barbara Rick

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From Pirjo Honkasalo's 'The 3 Rooms of Melancholia'
Eastern Eurovision: Doc Programs in Prague and St. Petersburg
By Kathy Brew

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Photo: (c) Nathalie Serougne
Remaining Au Courant with the Actuality Business
By Patricia Finneran

Sunny Side of the Doc 2005

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American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, Queens. Photo: Lynn Lane
Queen(s) of Documentaries: In Defense of 'Hollywood East'
By Lynn Lane

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From David Zeiger's 'Sir! No Sir!,' which won the Audience Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
From Mariachis to Marines to Melvin Van Peebles : A Doc Cornucopia at LAFF
By Darianna Cardilli

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Continuing the Documentary Idea: From Flaherty to ‘Fahrenheit 9/11,’ Vertov to Vérité
By Dana Benelli

A review of 'A New History of Documentary Film,' by Jack C. Ellis and Betsy A. McLane.