July 30, 2004 HBO Sports Goes the Distance Ross Greenburg is a native New Yorker whose boyhood heroes included such sports icons as Joe Namath, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Jim Brown and Read more
March 31, 2004 Through the Looking Glass: Not Everything Is as It Seems in the Wacky World of Wonder-land "Since we started, a lot of our ideas seemed strange at first," observes Fenton Bailey, co-founder, with Randy Barbato, of the Hollywood and London- Read more
March 31, 2004 The Real CSI: Are Crime Victims Being Re-Victimized by Filmmakers? A battle is brewing between victims and filmmakers over the use of crime stories for documentary films and reality television. Victims/survivors are Read more
January 1, 2004 Pioneer Award--Mel Stuart: Mastering the Rhythm of the Real What is a pioneer? We generally think of pioneers as explorers, innovators, trailblazers. People who open up new possibilities, new ways of thinking Read more
August 30, 2003 White Men Film 'The Blues' : PBS Project Skimps on Color and Gender One of the most eagerly awaited documentaries of the year may also be one of the most controversial. The Blues , the seven-part, ten-and-a-half-hour Read more
July 2, 2003 Conspiracy Theories, Mating Rituals and Untraditional Traditions: TRIO Channel Looks for Offbeat Docs It wasn't too long ago when documentary films were relegated to the realm of PBS programming and occasional network specials. The emergence of cable Read more
June 2, 2003 Wolper's Golden Years Now Archived: USC's New Center for the Study of Documentary Honors Producer "If this piece of film dies, a human thought dies with it. If I can do something to preserve that thought, isn't it worth doing?" That observation Read more
May 2, 2003 London Calling!: Nonfiction Opportunities Knock in the UK While documentary and television aren't the same thing, to the majority of documentary filmmakers in London and the UK, they have become inseparable Read more
April 2, 2003 When Reality Meets Narrative: Sundance Panel Bridges the Documentary and Fiction Divide For the last three years, a highlight for documentarians at the Sundance Film Festival has been the House of Docs, a community space designed to Read more
April 2, 2003 RealScreen Realities: Fewer Risks, Fewer Rewards With a $1,000 entry ticket, RealScreen Summit—the annual international conference on "the business of factual programming," held in February in Read more