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Getting Your Doc Seen Jul/Aug 2001

Once you’ve made your documentary, how do you get it seen? In this issue, we look into two areas—festivals and distribution—that often go hand in hand.

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Features

  • A middle-aged Bud Greenspan posing in front of film tapes. He is bald and is wearing black framed glasses on his head.

    Passings: Bud Greenspan, Sports Documentarian, Dies at 84

    Bud Greenspan, whose award-winning documentaries...
    By Tom White
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  • Making the Case for Festivals: Hot Docs Comes of Age

    A long line of impatient movie-goers stretches...
    By Michelle Mason
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  • Tales from the Trenches: Good Fests, Bad Fests: A Primer

    Over the past decade, film festivals have grown...
    By Kevin McKiernan
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  • DIY In Defense of Self-Distribution

    It’s opening night at the Laemmle Theatre in Los...
    By David Callahan
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  • PBS and DDE Shatter the Mold for Presenting Ancient History

    It all started with the ancient Greeks. Not the...
    By Stephanie Mardesich
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  • Bob Dylan, a white man with curly hair, performs on stage with a photographer snapping a photo. A still from 'Don't Look Back'. Courtesy of Pennebaker Hegedus Films

    Bob Dylan '65 Revisited: Looking Back on 'Don't Look Back' Documentary

    When Bob Dylan met DA Pennebaker in 1965, the...
    By Tom White
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  • International Distribution: The Meeting of Art and Commerce

    Just as writers write for an audience, producers...
    By Elizabeth Sheldon
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