Is it okay to bring my kids to along when I’m shooting?
Dear Doc Doctor: I’m a cinematographer, and I just found out that I’m pregnant. Should I tell people? I can’t…
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Her Brand of Filmmaking
Rachel Boynton produced, directed, co-edited, and recorded sound on her documentary feature Our Brand Is Crisis, a riveting political thriller…
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I recognize Ryanne Hodson as soon as I enter the Lower East Side café—even though I’ve never met her before….
Witness to Change
System Failure: Violence, Abuse and Neglect in the California Youth Authority has all the elements you’ve come to expect from…
Production Journal
In October of 2000, my then 20-year-old brother Jonathan was sent to the oncology unit of Massachusetts General Hospital from…
The Short Story at Sundance
Watching 2,000 short films in four months isn’t something you take on in your free time. It requires a finely…
I’m short of footage. Way short.
Dear Doc Doctor: I’m in my first week of editing, and I have this horrible feeling that my 100 hours…
Docurama on the Rise
At the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, Steve Savage and Susan Margolin, the two minds behind New Video, a New York-based…
The Anywhere Effect
A couple of years ago, I decided to take a break from New York, and headed out to Tempe, Arizona…