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…
Documentary
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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…
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The Many Meanings of “Fair Use”
So your documentary has commercial interest and high revenue earning potential. And you’ve secured all of the agreements, releases, and…
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Is documentary the new memoir?
I am a sociologist who conducts historical research on race and social policy, so my work has something in common…
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What if nobody “gets” my film?
Dear Doc Doctor: Nobody seems to like my film—they say it’s unclear and hard to follow. Why aren’t they getting…
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The BBC Bully
Nick Fraser’s career has been a constant battle between “what I will and won’t do for television,” says the 57-year-old…
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Where Are We Going?
The question on everyone’s mind is, Will it last? Documentaries are the hot cultural phenomenon at the moment, and in…
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Double Vision
The so-called “Film Brat” generation of the middle to late 1970s has been blamed for, or credited with, many things…
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From Idea to Story
Suppose that you’re thinking of doing a documentary film about Elvis Presley, or a diner in your home town, or…