July 19, 2016
Crossing the Anacostia River back toward Northwest Washington, DC, tails between our legs, I thought, "Pick-up shoots are supposed to be easy." We'd
Ethics
-
June 15, 2016Editor's Note: Kartemquin Films has been celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and the celebration culminates June 24 in Chicago, with the 50th
May 17, 2016By Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan We're starting a new documentary project, which means we're having that key early conversation with the people we
January 20, 2016Navigating ethical challenges comes with the territory when making documentary films. I am endlessly fascinated by the ethical choices we face,
September 21, 2015On our first shoot with Mark Landis, the prolific art forger and main subject of Art and Craft , we rode along with him on an errand to Hobby Lobby
July 29, 2015A few years ago I directed If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front , a documentary about the rise and fall of a radical environmental
June 10, 2015For five months in 1989 an abandoned newspaper office in Manchester, England, was taken over by a Granada TV film crew in pursuit of a sombre
April 23, 2015The 18th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival , which ran April 9 through 12 in Durham, NC, was a four-day fest crammed with documentaries,
April 15, 2015One of your characters confesses a life-changing secret to his wife while you're filming—should you use it? Your character said something terrific in
April 15, 2015This article was co-authored by Chris Palmer and filmmaker Shannon Lawrence. Documentary filmmaking requires acknowledgement and application of