Steven Okazaki reflects on his documentary career.
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A report on the 2007 United Nations Association Film Festival
What advice do senior documentary filmmakers have for new filmmakers interested in pursuing internships and first jobs in documentary media? To prepare for a workshop on this topic, I conducted an informal survey of eight high-level independent filmmakers in Boston and New York. All are well-established, with their own companies and major theatrical and broadcast credits. All work with interns and production assistants. And all were willing to take time out of their busy schedules to talk, because they share a common frustration: Good help is hard to find. Which means opportunities are out
First Amendment principles cited in Federal court decision.
IDA Founder Linda Buzzell tells the story of how IDA began.
Jessica Yu won the 1997 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien, an intimate portrait of the writer who lived for four decades paralyzed by polio and confined to an iron lung. Her 2004 feature documentary In the Realms of the Unreal, about the enigmatic "outsider" artist Henry Darger, won numerous prizes on the film festival circuit. Her other nonfiction films include The Living Museum (1999), about an art community in a New York mental institution, and Men of Reenaction, about Civil War reenactors. Yu also directs popular television
" The passionate mastering of documentary material is a bracing cure for the self-spiralings and unremitting inwardness that a long novel can inflict on a writer." -- Don DeLillo, "The Power of History" If you were a novelist and you sat down to write a story about what goes on behind the closed doors of a state institution for the criminally insane, not even the most imaginative of us would come up with the idea of opening with a variety show, where guards and inmates lock arms, swing pom-poms and belt out a chorus of "Strike Up the Band." If you were a novelist and not confined by the
Bret Morgen looks at life and high school basketball in a northern Michigan town.
Since Heather Croall came from the Australian festival world to run Sheffield Doc/Fest a couple of years ago, it has increasingly become a magnet for across-the-pond visitors, in spite of the schlep factor out of London (two-and-a-half hours by train) and its scheduling proximity to the behemoth of documentary festivals, IDFA. That's partly because of Croall's relentless focus on cutting-edge practices, whether it's green filmmaking or video gaming. It's partly to do with the "Meet Market," where producers can meet funders and commissioning editors from all over. But still, the great majority
Check out pix from the Awards After-Party and the pre-Awards Luncheon!