April 2, 2003 21st Century Doc-Making: Faster, Cheaper and Definitely In Control As a documentary producer/director for almost two decades, I have had the opportunity to experience first-hand the meteoric evolution of technology Read more
March 5, 2003 Taking Stock of Film Research: How to Find-and License-Archival Footage Unless your documentary consists entirely of original footage you've shot, chances are you're going to use archival footage and stock shots to help Read more
March 3, 2003 Archives Alive! New Tech Makes Old Clips Easier to Access Documentarians and other filmmakers who rely on images from libraries and archives to tell their stories are being helped by long-promised advances Read more
May 1, 2002 Documenting the Documentarians: Marina Goldovskaya's Oral History Project Marina Goldovskaya, who heads the documentary studies department at University of California at Los Angeles, has been working on her “Oral History Read more
May 1, 2002 The Rescue and Recovery Mission of Film Preservation Robert Rosen said it all: “Moving images are vital to our culture. They are a pre-eminent popular art form characteristic and distinctive to this Read more
December 1, 2001 Preservation & Scholarship Award: The Pacific Film Archive Virtually every documentary filmmaker hopes that the meaningful slices of history they have captured will be saved for posterity. For Steven Read more
December 1, 1999 Save the Docs! Michael Friend, director of Film Archives at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is working with Les Blank on the archiving and Read more
October 1, 1998 The Search for Missing Films: The IDA/Academy Documentary Collection One of the missions of the Film Archive at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is to acquire, preserve and provide research access to Read more
September 1, 1996 IDA Honors National Film Board of Canada The IDA will bestow its 1996 Preservation and Scholarship Award to the National Film Board of Canada for its significant archival and preservation Read more
March 1, 1996 Documentary Year Zero; or, A Century of Memory It's fulfilling to step back at some remove and acknowledge just how extensive a contribution documentary has made to the art of film. It's not a Read more