When we think of documentary filmmakers, we think of work that has a pattern: conceive, research, document, edit, distribute. Of course, that's a generalization, but if I had my cell phone/video camera pointed at a protest in Central Park, and transmitted what I had shot to a website, you wouldn't call that a documentary. But the lines are blurry, as technology makes real-time storytelling part of the future of the nonfiction world we live in. A number of institutions are breaking extraordinary ground in real-time storytelling and the evolution of citizen media. Take a look at NowPublic.com
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The Feeling of Being There: A Filmmaker's Memoir By Richard Leacock Edited by Valerie LaLonde Semeion Editions, 2011: 357 pages with black and white and color photographs and accompanying DVB. Hardcover Version: 199 euros ($263) Paperback version: 89 euros ($118) Interpreting history and marking the passage of time are two main tasks of documentary. The Feeling of Being There: A Filmmaker's Memoir, by Richard Leacock, does both of these things in this arresting and unique autobiography. Leacock, known throughout his long career as a technical innovator as well as a superb cinematographer
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The 19th edition of Toronto's Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival wrapped on Sunday, May 6, to unprecedented audience attendees estimated at 165,000--but those numbers couldn't dissipate an atmosphere of discontent in the Canadian documentary production community. The festival is hardly to blame for the problems that beset the Canadian industry and led to approximately 75 documentarians and friends staging an energetic rally on May 4 against the federal government's 10 percent cuts to the National Film Board (NFB) and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and a 50