Coming Clean
David Sampliner and Tim Nackashi’s debut documentary film Dirty Work premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2004 and is currently…
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Networking 101
Everyone knows the value of networking, right? It can get you a job, it can get you a great DP,…
Healthy Spending
It seems you can’t turn around these days without hearing people moan about the high cost of health insurance. Whether…
Sundance Feels the Burn
There are two Sundance Film Festivals. The made-for-television, glamorous, Los Angeles-chic Sundance can be seen on Entertainment Tonight and Extra:…
Don’t Worry, Film Happy
After more than twenty years in the business, I decided to quit my career as a costume designer. I was…
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…
Keeping it Real Weird
Long gone are the days when Austin, Texas was merely a breeding-ground for progressive types, presidential hopefuls, and music junkies….
PBS’s Double Bind
There’s a phenomenon afoot that is increasingly evident this year—at Sundance, Real Screen, and beyond. Let’s call it producer fatigue;…