Mastering Archival Footage: How to Find It, When to Use It
Immy Humes is adept at bringing a light touch to dark subject matter as she did in her Oscar-nominated 1991…
Documentary
Writing a Companion Book to Your Film
An examination of how the Iraq War went so wrong, Charles H. Ferguson’s documentary No End In Sight is by…
The Doc Doctor’s Anatomy of a Successful Film: “Divan”
About this new column: Many filmmakers ponder in anguish, How do other people—celebrated people—do it? Am I taking too long…
The Doc Doctor’s Anatomy of a Film: “Rock and a Heart Place”
Case Study No. 2 Rock and a Heart Place, produced by Nancy Sabino and Michael Sodano Running time: 80 minutes…
The Doc Doctor’s Anatomy of a Film: “Kiran over Mongolia”
About this new column: Many filmmakers ponder in anguish, How do other people—celebrated people—do it? Am I taking too long…
Airing Your Dirty Laundry
Doug Block wasn’t sure he had a film yet. His mother had passed away and he was videotaping his father’s…
A Conversation with Les Blank
In his new film All In This Tea, director Les Blank operates at the far extremes of technology, using digital…
Blurring the Lines
Ohio-based filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s 3-hour and 45-minute documentary A Lion in the House follows five families with…
AIVF: And What it Meant to Me
I first became aware of AIVF when Martha Gever was editor of The Independent. I marveled at this national organization…