Subtilting within reason
Dear Doc Doctor: Should I provide subtitles for the subjects in my documentary who speak Spanglish, or other "hybrid" languages…
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Risky Business
There’s an old adage in the business world that you should never risk offending a client by talking about religion…
Chaos Below Canal
New York City: the one place on earth that may, at least in the eyes of its own citizens, come…
Beating the Cheat
Make it a rule – don’t ever watch six Steven Okazaki films in a row. It started at around 9…
Portland, Oregon
Legend has it that when settlers came west by covered wagon more than 150 years ago, those seeking fame and…
What’s (still) experimental?
For filmmakers, being experimental isn’t as easy as it used to be. Fifty years ago, tossing aside Hollywood’s conventions of…
Coming Clean
David Sampliner and Tim Nackashi’s debut documentary film Dirty Work premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2004 and is currently…
Rodney Evans
In the Flying Saucer café in Brooklyn, New York, Rodney Evans settles into the same chair he sat in to…
Lost Angels
I could just be romanticizing it now that I’ve moved, but in New York all the filmmakers I knew seemed…