To Shoot “Flying,” Jennifer Fox Gave Up Control of Her Camera
As an award-winning director, producer and camerawoman, Jennifer Fox is certainly well-versed in all the conventions of ‘proper’ documentary filmmaking…
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The Doc Doctor’s Anatomy of a Film: “The Longing”
About this new column: Many filmmakers ponder in anguish, How do other people—celebrated people—do it? Am I taking too long…
The Peabody Award Winners: Watch Trailers and Clips
The full list of 2007 George Foster Peabody Award winners was released on April 2. The winners include films such…
The DVD Isn’t Dead… At Least Not Yet
With a call for shorts for Independent Exposure 2008 open through the end of the month, The Independent wanted to…
Download This: The Future of Distribution is Just a Click Away
Video blogs, vodcasts, YouTube — in many ways it seems that independent filmmakers have taken the internet by force. But…
The Doc Doctor’s Anatomy of a Film: “I Was a Teenage Feminist”
About this new column: Many filmmakers ponder in anguish, How do other people—celebrated people—do it? Am I taking too long…
Alex Karpovsky’s “Woodpecker”: The Perfect “Ficumentary”?
Filmmaker Alex Karpovsky is sure to leave reviewers scrambling for a dictionary in an attempt to define the hybrid genre…
“Prince Among Slaves”: Recreating History on a Budget
Prince Among Slaves, which aired in February on PBS as part of public television’s Black History Month programming, is the…
Watch Clips from the Oscar-winning Docs, Shorts, and Animated Shorts
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE No End in Sight (Magnolia Pictures) A Representational Pictures Production Filmmakers: Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs The…