Nothing epitomizes the challenges confronting a documentary at Cannes more than the contrast of festival screenings with the live-action distractions
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Whether you think that INPUT is a festival for innovative television programs, a workshop for creative television programmers or an extended therapy
Mark Moskowitz was in one of the last remaining independent bookstores in a mall, when he first came across International Documentary. He flipped
In 1998, when production began on Bonhoeffer ( www.Bonhoeffer.com), I felt confident that we had an intriguing historical documentary. Dietrich
I attended the sixth annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina last April, planning on paying special attention to the
Birds in flight and birds in fights. Public power battles in India and Soviet Georgia. American women on welfare and American girls in jail. This
Digital projection of video has been with us for some years, but has yet to attain wide acceptance in movie theaters. Initially, there were three
Celebrating Cinerama: The Birth, Death and Seeming Resurrection of the First Ultra-Widescreen Format
"One night in 1997, I was watching a documentary about Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of television, on American Experience," says David Strohmaier.
For a filmmaker, there's nothing like watching one's film unspool in a theater. My partner, Suki Hawley, and I recently made a documentary called
North Carolina is a "right to work" state, which is part of her independent charm for documentary filmmakers, but also her challenge. There are no