Healthy Spending
It seems you can’t turn around these days without hearing people moan about the high cost of health insurance. Whether…
Features
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Don’t Shoot
Many might say the past few years have been good ones for independent filmmakers, largely because digital filmmaking has made…
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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;…
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Digital Intermediates
Your next film probably won’t be digitally mastered. But the one after that probably will be. That’s how fast the…
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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…
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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…
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Ask the Documentary Doctor
Dear Doc Doctor: Is a short film the obligatory starting point of a filmmaking career? If so, what can I…
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The FCC Showdown
On October 22, 2003, the FCC held a hearing on localism in Charlotte, NC. FCC chairman Michael Powell probably wished…
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