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Staying Clear: How the First Amendment Can Protect Your Documentary
If there’s one thing both Alex Gibney and Scientology should agree upon, it’s the value of...
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Eye Piece: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado on the Poetic, Portable Cinematography of The Salt of the Earth
The documentary The Salt of the Earth is a film about my father, the photographer Sebastião...
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Cinema Law: What You Should Know About Wiretapping Phone Calls
Q: What are the rules regarding wiretapping in documentaries? When people think of wiretapping, they imagine federal agents...
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Seymour: An Introduction: Ethan Hawke and Seymour Bernstein Create the Opposite of Whiplash
“Do you know anyone who became a movie star at 87?” joked Seymour Bernstein, the subject...
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Mean Streets: Director Bert Marcus Pushes for Change Outside the Ring in Champs
Boxing was once the epitome of the American Dream. A sport that offered hope to those...
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Formats, Licensing, Creative Fundraising: The Epic 19-Year Making of Music Doc The Wrecking Crew
How Denny Tedesco spent 19 years making The Wrecking Crew, a documentary about ’60 musical legends—and...
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After Suffering PTSD, Amy Ziering Returns to The Hunting Ground with Kirby Dick
She patiently listened to the details, time and time again, that sounded too eerily similar. A...
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Taking it Personally: On Life Itself and Missing Roger Ebert
I had known Roger Ebert for a couple of years when I formed my first lasting...
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Addicts, Winos, Fassbinder, Herzog: Giuseppe Makes a Movie Testifies to Cinema’s Power to Unite
Two days. $1,000. A camcorder and pack of tapes. A cast of alcoholics, drug addicts, war...
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How Do You Document Love? The Making of Mail-Order Bride Documentary Love Me
It’s only natural this week to be thinking about love—and all the associated tropes of “romance”...
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How They Did It: Covert Interviews with Scared Teens in Documentary Exposé Kidnapped for Christ
In her documentary Kidnapped for Christ, Kate Logan set out with the innocuous plan to film...
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Powers to the People: SundanceNow Doc Club Brings Curated Documentaries to VOD
You love documentaries. And what better way to satisfy your doc habit than by plunking down...
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Home But Not Alone: Teodora Ana Mihai on Waiting for August
Waiting for August is Teodora Ana Mihai’s debut documentary film about a teenage girl raising six siblings...
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Shoot Everything: an Interview with Director Neil Berkeley of Harmontown
Directed by Neil Berkeley (Beauty is Embarrassing), the road documentary Harmontown follows Dan Harmon, creator of...
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The Great Wiseman Travesty Finally Ends: At 84, Documentarian Breaks On Through to VOD Side
Few would argue if you called Frederick Wiseman one of the world’s greatest living documentarians. And...
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Family Portrait: Ken Burns’ The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
PBS’ new documentary series, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, premieres on September 14, with the first of...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: Marah Strauch on BASE Documentary Sunshine Superman
Sunshine Superman, about BASE jumping pioneer Carl Boenish, is the opening night documentary premiere at this...
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Reconstructing Sue: Director Todd Miller on Dinosaur 13
Hours and hours digging through material, carefully placing things in the right order, puzzling out a...
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How They Did It: The Battered Bastards of Baseball
How did the documentary The Battered Bastards of Baseball, about indie baseball team the Portland Mavericks,...
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Big Joy: The Documentary Co-Director Reflects on Beat Filmmaker James Broughton
Stephen Silha is the co-director of Big Joy: the Adventures of James Broughton, a lyrical documentary...
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Crowdfunder Pick: Ambulante Documentary Festival
This week’s Crowdfunder Pick is Ambulante California, a U.S. spin-off of a traveling documentary film festival...
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Behind the Gate: Co-Director and EP Mark Giardino
Behind the Gate is co-directors Jack Lucarelli and Mark Giardino’s documentary about the tremendous efforts that...
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How They Did It: ER Chaos in Code Black
If you had rare access to one of the most intense medical environments in the world,...
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Who Will Pick Up the Baton? Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Australian Nicholas Wrathall, the producer/writer/director of the new documentary Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia, sees...
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