On the first day of her shoot at the Harlan County (Kentucky) coal miners strike, Barbara Kopple and her crew were met with distrust. The miners were
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The ever staid and stoic Michael Kaplan, producer/director of Make 'em Laugh. Photo: Joe Sinnott. Courtesy of Thirteen/WNET After producing what many
In the year since winning the Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival for Daughter from Danang, producer/director Gail Dolgin and director
David Wolper, whose Wolper Organization was a pioneering force in documentary production during the first three decades of American television, passed
Andrew Berends, the recipient of the 2006 Courage Under Fire Award, traveled to Iraq in March 2004, intending to get a behind-the-scenes look at what
Reports of a film festival can lapse into a list of titles. For the Jihlava (Czech Republic) International Festival of Documentary Films ( www
Editor’s Note: On October 1 at the Lakeside Theater in Oakland, IDA will present a special Bay Area edition of its Conversation Series, featuring The
Morgan Spurlock, from his 2004 film Super Size Me. Photo: Julie Soefer I know what you're thinking--what could possibly be funnier than a gaggle of
From Pernille Rose Gronkjaer's The Monastery: Mr. Vig & the Nun, which won the Joris Ivens Feature Award at the 2006 IDFA. Along with unseasonably