August 31, 2004
The crusade to bring nonfiction films to theaters may have just taken a giant leap forward. America’s Heart and Soul was scheduled to appear on
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July 30, 2004Earlier this year, Cobalt Entertainment Technology, a Los Angeles-based firm that specializes in three-dimensional filmed entertainment, teamed up
May 31, 2004Being a judge this year on the IDA, Directors Guild of America (DGA) and Oscar Documentary committees, I got to see a large number of films. There
April 30, 2004Returning from the 82nd Annual Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial in Gallup, New Mexico, in August 2002, with nine hours of DV-cam footage shot on my
January 1, 2004Any accidental tourists strolling through the lobby of Wyoming's Lake Lodge sometime during the last week of September might have thought they had
August 30, 2003The bigger the image, the bigger the impact," says Robert Dennis. "Filmmakers have been experimenting with large format since the early days of
August 30, 2003Celebrating Cinerama: The Birth, Death and Seeming Resurrection of the First Ultra-Widescreen Format
"One night in 1997, I was watching a documentary about Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of television, on American Experience ," says David Strohmaier
April 2, 2003As a documentary producer/director for almost two decades, I have had the opportunity to experience first-hand the meteoric evolution of technology
March 3, 2003Veteran documentarian DA Pennebaker is fond of drawing analogies between film and video. In the 1930s, he recalls, filmmakers told their stories with
February 2, 2003At this year's DOCtober, 19 of the 21 films screened were shot on Digital Video (DV) and blown up to film. At the recent AFI Fest, 11 of the 12 docs