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.
Features
Passings: Bud Greenspan, Sports Documentarian, Dies at 84
Bud Greenspan, whose award-winning documentaries...
Making the Case for Festivals: Hot Docs Comes of Age
A long line of impatient movie-goers stretches...
Getting it Right from the Start: The Durango Film Festival
To be the guest of a festival and watch one’s...
Tales from the Trenches: Good Fests, Bad Fests: A Primer
Over the past decade, film festivals have grown...
PBS and DDE Shatter the Mold for Presenting Ancient History
It all started with the ancient Greeks. Not the...
Dylan '65 Revisited: D.A. Pennebaker Looks Back on 'Don't Look Back'
When Bob Dylan met D.A. Pennebaker in 1965, the...
International Distribution: The Meeting of Art and Commerce
Just as writers write for an audience, producers...