POLICY
Picture if you will, Karl Rove and Karen Hughes sitting around the offices of Bush-Cheney 2004, talking strategy and shooting…
Features
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…
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;…
Digital Intermediates
Your next film probably won’t be digitally mastered. But the one after that probably will be. That’s how fast the…
48 Hour Picture People
At 7:00 p.m. on a Friday night, more than twenty teams of filmmakers gather at a local film center or…
The Medium is the Maker
Filmmakers are often touted for their “vision”—their singular sense of how a movie should look, sound, and feel. But every…