Detroit, Michigan
Over the course of two generations, Detroit has gone from a symbol of American industrial pro-wess to a shorthand term…
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Colorvision
Marc Henry Johnson, executive producer and chief visionary of the newly premiered public television series Colorvision, is a passionate advocate…
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The Nuances of Film Editing
The word “edit” has a bad reputation. To lay folk, the word brings to mind overindulgence, censorship, and the property…
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Hometown Hitter
First-time screenwriter/director Tom McCarthy didn’t stray too far from home when he decided to make his debut film The Station…
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Story Is As Story Does
In 1997, I had a decent career as a freelance magazine writer when at the beach one day I told…
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Funder FAQ: Sundance Institute Documentary Program
What is the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund? It’s a fund to support documentaries in the US and internationally that deal…
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Film Festivals: The IFP Market’s Silver Anniversary
A painter who hijacks billboards for subversive messages against corporate advertising; a man trying to convert his car to run…
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Money Matters
Ed Pressman and I started ContentFilm two years ago, and we have produced eight films in that time with more…
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Jack Cahill & David Eberhardt
First-time documentary filmmaker Jack Cahill still remembers learning hobo sign language from his third grade teacher. What seemed superfluous at…