When she was a teenager in the late '70s growing up in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suburbs, filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain was taken by her
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Things are not always as they appear. And for documentary filmmakers, understanding the appetites and working styles of potential filmmaking partners
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Paula Apsell began her career with PBS in 1975 as a production assistant on a small science series called NOVA. Back then, men would typically be
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'Woody Allen: A Documentary' airs November 20 and 21 on 'American Masters.'
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While the biopic has always been part of Hollywood filmmaking, with the recent successes of Capote , Good Night and Good Luck and Walk the Line , the