Secrets and LIES
You have become the thing that you have mocked. That’s a paraphrase of a famous Shakespeare line, and it’s also…
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Big Bird and Beyond
Lois Vossen thinks she has the best job in the world. She works 60 hours a week, and much of…
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This Revolution
In June 2004, I watched Ted Demme’s inspirational profile of 70s filmmakers, A Decade Under the Influence, which is basically…
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LA Film with a View
In New York, a rooftop is not merely a rooftop. Part refuge, part observation deck, the roof is where New…
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Journeys in Film: A Children’s Program
Inside Manhattan’s City Hall Academy on a dark and wet Friday morning this past February, actor Liam Neeson introduced some…
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How much should I hustle?
Dear Doc Doctor: My film projects and ideas are well-suited for public television. But as an independent filmmaker I can’t…
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The Women of Sundance
Flipping through the catalog of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the faces of American narrative filmmakers are unsurprisingly still predominantly…
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The Indie Godmother
While covering the 2003 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, where one of my films was showing, Joe Williams, film critic of…
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Tracking Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann is one tough woman to track down. After a month of scheduling and rescheduling an interview time, I…