Summer 2010

Finding Funding Summer 2010

This issue is dedicated to the unglamorous but totally necessary world of funding and fundraising.

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Features

From Outreach to Crowd-Sourcing: Fundraising Tips for Docs

Producing documentaries, which have become much...

By wanda bershen

Fiscal Examination: Investigating Funding Opportunities at Nonprofits

Fiscal Sponsorship programs at nonprofit...

By Tracie Lewis

Funder Road: Navigating the Correct Path to Packaging and Funding Documentaries

I am frequently asked by students and emerging...

By Mitchell Block

Documentary's 'F' Word: Funding Challenges for Personal, Experimental Works

In 1991, Doug Block directed The Heck with...

By Shelley Gabert

Dollars for Docs: Foundations, Fiscal Sponsors and Government Agencies

Money's been called the lifeblood of politics, and...

By Michael Rose

Conceptual Reality: It Doesn't Take Vulcan Logic to Fund Concept-Based Documentaries

Roger Nygard's 'The Nature of Existence' opens...

By Roger Nygard

Pitch Fests: Selling Your Project in Seven Minutes or Less

IDFA Forum, Toronto Documentary Forum, The Good...

By wanda bershen

Don't Fudge on Your Budget: Toeing the Line Items

Editor's note: This article was revised for the...

By Robert Bahar

Columns

Notes from the Reel World: The Executive Director's Column, Summer 2010

By Michael Lumpkin

Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Summer 2010

By Tom White

Finding Funding: Identify Your Core Values

By Cynthia Close

Cartier-Bresson D'etre: Docs by and on the Father of Modern Photojournalism

By Cathleen Rountree

Most Def: Take the Hi Road When Shooting Your Next Doc

By Steven Bognar

SAMO IS DEAD: Long Live Basquiat!

By Kathy Brew

War Stories: Brave New Foundation Trains Soldiers to Make Docs

By Tamara Krinsky

It's a 'Wild' World: Nat Geo Taps into the Global Zeitgeist

By Lauren Cardillo