March 31, 2005 Documentary as a Spawning Ground for Female Cinematographers "I went into documentaries because I wanted to make socially responsible movies. It was a way to use cinematography to make a statement about the Read more
December 31, 2004 When Photography Develops into Documentary With the roll-out of one political doc after another this fall, it's easy to forget that documentarians can start out in art school as well as Read more
December 20, 2004 Preserving Our Heritage: Film Remains the Best Archive Material "The American television and video heritage is now at a crossroads. One direction leads toward catastrophic losses of film and videotape...Another Read more
November 30, 2004 Journey to Hassle-Free High Definition: An Insider's Look at the Latest Production Technology Recently my company, HD Studios, contacted to co-produce a half-hour high-definition (HD) television series entitled Journey to Hollywood. Each of Read more
August 31, 2004 These American Lives: Mining the Heart and Soul of the Country's Unsung Heroes 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 Read more
July 30, 2004 The NFL Goes Digital 3-D HD Earlier this year, Cobalt Entertainment Technology, a Los Angeles-based firm that specializes in three-dimensional filmed entertainment, teamed up Read more
May 31, 2004 Is the New Golden Age of Documentary Almost Over? Being 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 Read more
April 30, 2004 Of Prevarications and Varicams: Getting the Right Gear for your Shoot Returning 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 Read more
January 1, 2004 Capturing Wildlife: Natural History Filmmakers Bag Big Game at Jackson Hole Any accidental tourists strolling through the lobby of Wyoming's Lake Lodge sometime during the last week of September might have thought they had Read more
August 30, 2003 Big Time Reality: Size Does Matter to Large Format Filmmakers The bigger the image, the bigger the impact," says Robert Dennis. "Filmmakers have been experimenting with large format since the early days of Read more