When filmmaker Frank Pavich took the stage to introduce his film Jodorowsky's Dune on the opening night of the True/False Festival, he looked out at the crowd in the 1,200-seat Missouri Theater and beamed. "I'm completely blown away," said Pavich. "I've been to Cannes, Toronto and Telluride, but within a few hours of being here, I feel so welcomed by this amazing community." Director Frank Pavich (right) and editor Alex Ricciardi following the screening of their film Jodorowsky's Dune. Photo: Sarah Hoffman A few days later, Tracy Droz Tragos, co-director with her cousin, Andrew Droz Palermo
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What happens after you’ve finally finished that amazing film you worked on for years? You want to sell it, of course. You want to find a way to get it out there and earn what you know it’s worth. But where do you start? Who do you take it to? With Preferred Content's Managing Partner Kevin Iwashina at the helm, we brought together an expert panel including top sales agents Josh Braun of Submarine (US sales) and Annie Roney of ro*co (international sales), as well as David Magdael (publicist), to give you a few insider dos and don'ts for selling your documentary. DO find the right match
Here comes the sun—and, with it, the Spring 2014 issue of Documentary magazine!
20 Feet from Stardom, Morgan Neville's celebration of the dynamic singers behind some of the the greatest hits in rock ‘n' roll, took the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, while The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved my Life secured the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject. In praising Alice Herz Sommer, the late subject of The Lady in Number 6, director Malcolm Clarke noted, "She had an extraordinary capacity for joy and an amazing capacity for forgiveness... She was 110, she died quietly, and so this is for her. She was a woman who taught every one of my crew to be a little but more
'The Square' screens at 5:00 p.m. at IDA's DocuDay.
Charlotte Zwerin passed away in January of lung cancer, and while we noted her death in the Short Takes column in the April issue, we felt it was especially appropriate for this issue, which focuses on music and documentaries, to pay a more prominent tribute. Zwerin is best known for her work with David and Albert Maysles, editing and earning a co-director credit on the epochal films Salesman (1969) and Gimme Shelter (1970), as well two films about the artist Christo: Running Fence (1978) and Islands (1987). Her work outside of Maysles Films included portraits of artists such as Willem de
Ayuko Babu's passion for international cinema began when he was 13 years old. On the way home from playing basketball one summer with friends in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the future founder and executive director of the Los Angeles-based Pan African Film & Arts Festival (PAFF) noticed how several people of color were queued up outside a local art house to see a movie. He and his friends thought the film must be important to attract such an audience, so they, too, wanted to see it. The film was in a language that they couldn't understand, the cast was full of people of color, the costumes were
Ross Greenburg is a native New Yorker whose boyhood heroes included such sports icons as Joe Namath, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Jim Brown and Muhammad Ali. As a boy, Greenburg was a fan and an athlete. He played school football with his friend Kyle Gifford, whose father was Frank Gifford, a legendary football player who became a sports commentator for ABC Television. That connection provided opportunities for Greenburg to freelance as a production assistant with ABC Sports while he was still a student at Brown University. "Sports was in my soul," Greenburg says. "ABC Sports didn't have a job
'Prison Terminal' screens March 1 at 9:00 a.m. at IDA's DocuDay.