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Pamela Yates (center) with the Guatemalan, American and Dutch crew during the filming of “Granito” in the Guatemalan highlands 2010. Photo by Dana Lixenberg.

The Producer Winter 2019

The Winter 2019 issue salutes the producer and the many roles they play to keep the production process running.

Features

  • Where Shakespeare Meets Scheherazade: Towards a North-South Camaraderie in Documentary

    Editor’s Note: Orwa Nyrabia is the artistic...
    By Orwa Nyrabia
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  • DOCUMENTARY POWER: A New Manifesto

    Editor’s Note: Chi-hui Yang is program officer at...
    By Chi-hui Yang
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  • What Matters in Documentary Filmmaking

    Editor’s Note: Molly Thompson is Senior Vice...
    By Molly Thompson
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  • The Kindness of Strangers: A Guide on How to Treat Your Equity Investment Funders

    Raising money for a film often feels like a...
    By Darianna Cardilli
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  • A (Revised!) Introduction to Documentary Budgeting

    This is a fully revised look at documentary...
    By Robert Bahar
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  • Skylight's Pamela Yates & Paco de Onis Consider the Nonprofit Model

    Over the last several years, as sustainability...
    By Ken Jacobson
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  • Documentary Producers Alliance Unveils Crediting Guidelines

    Editor’s Note: What follows is a statement from...
    By Beth Levison
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