Is it too late to edit myself out of this film?
Dear Doc Doctor: I think I made the mistake of putting myself in my film as the inquisitive filmmaker—as a…
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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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The Pay-Off
In the first few minutes of Kevin Everson’s new film Spicebush, the screen splits into two frames, one showing a…
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Chlotrudis
Several couples chat casually, surrounded mostly by empty red velvet seats inside Brookline, Massachusetts’s Coolidge Corner Theatre in early November….
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The Anatomy of a Short
Ten years ago two witty gents from Colorado, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, made a riotous animated short called The…
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Mix Master
Marcelo Zarvos is scoring big in the independent film world these days. The thirty-five-year old Brazilian-born Zarvos, who has made…
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Can I do without professional sound editing?
Dear Doc Doctor: Many people suggested that I add more narration and music to my documentary, which I did, but…
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The Sound of Gowns
I knew Mira Nair’s Vanity Fair was going to be an interesting and challenging project. It was filmed with lots…