Editor's note: In November 1994, San Francisco filmmaker Lisanne Skyler achieved the dream of many independent documentarians when she was informed
Festivals
For film and video documentarians, what's the best-kept secret film festival in America? Here's my candidate: the Vermont International Film Festival
A little-known chapter in documentary history is that of Japan's pre-World War II proletarian film movement. The organization at the core of this
Documentaries at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, which was held February 9-20, were most in evidence at the International Forum of
"When Strangers Meet" was the motto of the 14th Hawaii International Film Festival, held November 4-17, 1994, in Oahu, Maui, Hawaii, and neighboring
Many people ask, and rightly so: Of what use it is to spend the money and time schmoozing at festivals and markets? Whether one has a clearly defined
"Hey, did you hear that Martin Scorsese is making a film in Toronto?" "No, what is it?" "It's called Clean Streets." That's an appropriate joke for
Barbara Kopple's success with American Dream in this year 's Sundance Film Festival documentary competition can only be described as a landslide
At the Mannheim International Film Week, non-fiction filmmakers don't have to feel like second-class citizens. Documentaries were well represented
The First Annual Berlin International Film Festival opened forty years ago at the focal point of a Europe newly and conspicuously divided. By 1951