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I was an undergraduate when I saw Mike Rubbo's Sad Song of Yellow Skin and decided to become a documentary filmmaker. I felt as if a truck had
Dear Readers, We close out our 20th anniversary year by celebrating the contributions of three giants in the documentary field. Ken Burns, the 2002
Dear IDA Members: The holiday season and the IDA Awards Gala Benefit, on December 13, seem to have a synonymous ring. Wrapping up the year and kicking
I read a front-page article in The New York Times recently that stated that the US is currently buying millions of barrels of oil a year from Iraq
This year I found myself going into production on two feature-length documentaries at the same time. I described the development process in an earlier
Dear Readers, There’s making your film, and then there’s getting your film made. Finding a distributor for your documentary is often more arduous a
Dear Readers, “DOCtober…in September” was a smashing success; we sold nearly twice the number of tickets over previous DOCtobers. But it’s time to
In the 1960s, when I had just arrived in New York City, I spent a year as an assistant to Willard Van Dyke, the renowned social documentary filmmaker
For almost two months, two documentary filmmakers—Paul Schwartzreich and Mait Quinn—wove themselves into the fabric of the streets of Portland, Oregon
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