While it's been refreshing over the past year to see a relative proliferation of documentaries in commercial theaters, the operative word is still
Distribution
The 26th Independent Feature Project's (IFP) Film Market, held in New York in September, aimed to "bring together the business and creative
Artwork for Marc Levitz' I Survived BTK, Courtesy of Marc D. Levitz In a 2006 article about the Emmy Awards that appeared in Documentary magazine, the
Women Make Movies (WMM) is losing its enviable, mile-long view of New York City's SoHo. Across the street from WMM's floor-to-ceiling windows
Today it is even harder to bring a documentary feature into the world successfully than it is to make one. The traditional system for distributing
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The 2005 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
No one in the documentary community can stop talking about what a great time it is to be working in the world of nonfiction. Docs are booming in
Editor's Note: What follows is the edited version of a chapter from Selling Your Film without Selling Your Soul, by The Film Collaborative, Jon Reiss