April 2, 2012 Abhorrent Torrent: Weathering Film Piracy in Stormy Times "Ahoy, hornswaggling pirates! Get me film booty out of yer bung hole or you'll sleep in Davy Jones' Locker." That's about the best threat most Read more
March 19, 2012 Getting Your Film Ready for School: It’s Academic DIY Courtesy of Judith Dancoff What are the keys to successfully selling your film to the academic market? The mistake too many documentary filmmakers Read more
I'll Take Manhattan: New York City is Doc Central for Distributors--You Gotta Problem with That? Is New York City really the center of independent documentary filmmaking, or does it just seem that way? Short answer: it is. Sorry, to those of you Read more
January 5, 2012 Learn Distribution at Home: Courshon Reveals the Secrets You've worked hard to finish your documentary film--endless hours raising funds to create your masterpiece; then months, if not years, in production Read more
November 11, 2011 Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Spring 2010 Rethinking the Festival Circuit. Read more
October 2, 2011 It's a New Day: Collective Distribution New Day Films celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2011. Read more
RealScreen Summitt At $1,200 for two days, not counting workshops, RealScreen Summit ("Bringing The Best in Non-Fiction Together") doesn't exactly put out the welcome Read more
June 21, 2011 Notes from the Reel World: The President's Column, Spring 2011 What success means to the doc community. Read more
Screen and Screen Again: A Primer for Distribution Neophytes A Review of John Anderson and Laura Kim's 'Wake Up Screening' Read more
April 5, 2011 Amazon Gold: Selling Your DVD Via the Behemoth Online Retailer So you've finally finished your documentary film and authored a DVD (or a Blu-ray; for the purposes of this article, I will use DVD). Whether or not Read more