Singing Pictures
Movie musicals are not dead. They didn’t die in the 1930s. Television didn’t kill them. And expensive 1970s flops didn’t…
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Promoting your film
Dear Doc Doctor: All I can afford in terms of marketing my documentary is my Internet connection and email account….
Spice Market
I am white and alone in a darkened room at night with over four hundred Dominicans in New York City….
How can I do this full time?
Dear Doc Doctor: I can’t wait for the time when I am able to be a full-time independent documentary filmmaker—it’s…
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…
Healthy Spending
It seems you can’t turn around these days without hearing people moan about the high cost of health insurance. Whether…
Don’t Shoot
Many might say the past few years have been good ones for independent filmmakers, largely because digital filmmaking has made…