This past year has been a watermark year for documentarians, with documentaries moving more and more into the mainstream of public awareness and interest. While technological advances are making documentary filmmaking easier, less expensive and more accessible to a growing number of aspiring filmmakers, distribution avenues that were once thought impossible, or had yet to come into being, now provide new opportunities for reaching a greater audience. But with the expansion of possible markets comes increasing complexities in licensing ever more expensive popular music for your documentary
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PBS moves POV and Independent Lens back to Tuesday; NEA cuts funding for nonficiton programming; Lee Storey wins ruling on IRS.
'Half the Sky,' multi-platform transmedia project, airs October 1 and 2 on PBS' 'Independnet Lens.'
During the waning days of World War II, the Allies launched a horrific aerial assault on Dresden, a city that was known as the Florence of Germany. Nearly 4,000 tons of bombs leveled over 15 square miles of the city, killing upwards of 25,000 people. The devastation has been compared to what was later visited upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many of the ruins remained largely untouched during the Soviet era, but after the Berlin Wall collapsed (along with the Soviet Union), Germany was reunified and a massive effort ensued to rebuild the stunning skyline set off by cathedral spires. Dresden today
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TheWrap.com, NPR, and several other news outlets have announced that Syrian documentary filmmaker and festival director Orwa Nyrabia has been released from custody after it was announced he was missing from Damascus International Airport on August 23. Below is the full report from NPR: A Syrian documentary film producer whose disappearance two weeks ago prompted concerns for his safety and a letter of support from the Toronto International Film Festival is now free, according to reports. The European Documentary Network website announced today that, "Finally the good news came, that Orwa
'The House I Live In' opens October 5 in New York City.
'California Forever' airs in September and October on PBS stations.
Making documentaries about controversial subjects is like walking on broken glass. Painful, bloody and exhilarating. I have spent the last 25 years making films that chronicle the often perverse but always thrilling careers of the megalomaniac titans that play larger-than-life roles in show business. I'm not sure what it is that attracts me to making films about moguls. It could be their Faustian exercise of power or their frequent Shakespearean falls from grace. In the process, I have been followed, berated and threatened with bodily harm, litigation and career suicide. I have put my head in