Filmmakers have often told me that they find the scoring process to be one of the most daunting aspects of making movies. Even some seasoned directors
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The Five Obstructions turns the concept of documentary on its ear, then spins it around. Though billed as a documentary, The Five Obstructions is a
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is arguably the Cannes of documentary film festivals. It has always been a very polished organization, largely
Over the past five or six years, two of the leading national sports networks—ESPN and Fox Sports Net—have developed documentary series that have taken
Who owns the images of our world? Where do ideas end and images begin? How can we both defend the freedoms and rights of filmmakers and encourage the
I have had job interviews and meetings with some of the best independent documentary filmmakers around. Some of them hired me for paying jobs; others
The 7th Annual Old Dominion University (ODU) Film and Video Festival, "Stranger than Fiction: Framing Reality in Film and Television," took place last
Springtime in Los Angeles...and what was blooming was film festivals. International Documentary managed to attend several of these first-year fests
OK, I admit it. I watched The Apprentice. I TiVo'd The Simple Life. I even tuned in to The Resturaunt. And that's not all. I've become a fan of A&E's
Have you seen J.P. Sniadecki and Libbie D. Cohn's absorbing documentary People's Park, an 89-minute film shot in one continual take that puts the