It might be tempting to think that if you write a check to a grant writer you can check out of the process and focus on making your film while the
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Anyone who makes documentary films is aware of the idea that the social issue documentary is "the new black." Nearly every call for grant proposals
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Editor's Note: The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Programs and Fund is the receipient of the IDA Pioneer Award; this article appeared in the
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How do documentary filmmakers impact their audiences and create social change with their films? Working Films and the BRITDOC Foundation are two
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Every once in a while we'll be highlighting one of the good questions we get here in the fiscal sponsorship department that we think might be useful
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When cities recover from hard financial times, creative souls are often pushed to the peripheries. It should come as no surprise that the young
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Even when the economy is robust, documentary funding is hard to come by. So, during these tough times, when a major research nonprofit organization
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Take a look inside our recent event at The Standard Hotel Downtown.
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From Katrina Browne's Traces of the Trade, which was made as part of the WGBH Filmmakers-in-Residence Program. Photo: Amishadai Sackitey The
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Producing documentaries, which have become much more popular and visible on TV, DVD and in theaters in recent years, has never been an undertaking for