Sports Docs Rule the Waves July 2004
In this issue, we take a look at this category that has enabled us to re-imagine sports in a new way—as a prism through which we try to understand the human experience.
The Farmer's Wife , a documentary by David Sutherland, had a profound effect on me. It inspired me back into producing documentaries. After film
The power of pictures can no longer be denied. Maybe in the past, if you had a television station, movie theater, cable network or a newspaper... You
A review of Carole Lee Dean's 'The Art of Funding: Alternative Financing Concepts'
I think the best description I've heard of the RealScreen Summit is that it resembles the now iconographic "bar scene" in the first Star Wars movie—
Government elections and cultural events don't always go hand in hand. This year's Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival in Greece was rescheduled
Ross Greenburg is a native New Yorker whose boyhood heroes included such sports icons as Joe Namath, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Jim Brown and
Earlier this year, Cobalt Entertainment Technology, a Los Angeles-based firm that specializes in three-dimensional filmed entertainment, teamed up
On 'Super Size Me' and 'The Corporation'
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is arguably the Cannes of documentary film festivals. It has always been a very polished organization, largely
Over the past five or six years, two of the leading national sports networks—ESPN and Fox Sports Net—have developed documentary series that have
Although surfing has been around for 1,500 years, its documentation on film didn't crystallize until the 1950s, when such California-based wave-
Dear Readers, Sports is a category, a section in the newspaper, a livelihood, an obsession. And it's also a genre in the rich world of documentary
Dear IDA Members: Giving your time.... As many of us punch through our day-to-day routines of phone calls, emails and FedEx deliveries, once in while- NEWS BRIEFS Slamdance Forms Management/Distribution Shingle Slamdance President and co-founder Peter Baxter has joined forces with veteran film and