North Carolina is a "right to work" state, which is part of her independent charm for documentary filmmakers, but also her challenge. There are no
Festivals
Sunny Side of the Doc ( www.sunnysideofthedoc.com) took place last June in a magnificent former palace, high up on a hill overlooking Marseille
In the aftermath of the one-sided American war coverage in Iraq and the Federal Communications Commission's vote to approve further media
After several false starts, personnel shifts and delays, Silverdocs, the AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival, finally launched in June with a
Technically, there was not much to discover at the 2003 IFP/Los Angeles Film Festival, held in June. For the past couple of years since Independent
What would happen if technology stopped in its tracks? If filmmaking's tools of tomorrow were the same as today? It's slightly ironic in the midst of
I am not a filmmaker. I don't even play one on TV. Last year, however, I did write direct and edit a three-minute film as part of a project called
In March 2003, as we began screening documentaries by filmmakers from rural Kentucky to audiences in southwest China, American missiles began raining
The Independent Film Project (IFP) Market, held in New York City in September, has reinvented itself. Gone are the circus-like antics to recruit