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Lee Hirsch Rallies for Peace with Bully
With over 10 million school kids being bullied, there has never been a better time to...
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Focus Forward: Helping documentary moviemakers share their visions
With its impressive pedigree and thought-provoking line-up, Focus Forward is quickly emerging as one of the...
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To Catch a Dollar: Gayle Ferraro Banks on America
With job creation a constant topic in the news, there’s no better time to see Gayle...
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Sundance Dispatch 05: MovieMaker sits down with Grand Jury and Audience Award-winner Ryan Coogler of Fruitvale, the team behind the 99% documentary, and the President of Yekra
In this fifth and final episode, MovieMaker sits down with 2013 Grand Jury and Audience Award-winning...
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Brick and Mortar: Why traditional distributors still matter in a major way
With a plethora of digital distribution platforms sprouting up like ragweed in a hay field, it...
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The Iran Job
I’m married to an Iranian woman. She’s smart, beautiful, and tough as nails (I may be...
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Roger Corman’s World: Alex Stapleton Pays Tribute to a Hollywood Rebel
Considering her status as a first-time moviemaker, Alex Stapleton’s choice of subject matter for her debut...
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Get Closer to the Stars of Documentary with Constellation’s Top Docs
Constellation, a new, much buzzed-about online movie theater that turns watching movies online into a social...
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Tribeca and Gucci Join Forces to Support Documentary Moviemakers
Contrary to what people may think, Gucci isn’t only concerned with handbags and sunglasses. For the...
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Producers Guild Award Documentary Nominees Announced
The awards season is starting to kick into gear yet again. About time, too—it’s been nine...
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Matt Katsolis Shoots and Scores with Panasonic
When Florida-based moviemaker Matt Katsolis stumbled upon a contest link this past summer, little did he...
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San Francisco Documentary Festival
The San Francisco International Documentary Festival will screen the best new short and feature length docs...
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The Tide Turns for Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda is a legendary French director and so-called “grandmother of the French New Wave;” a...
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Cinema Law: What is an LLC and What Does it Have to do With My Documentary?
Q: There’s quite a lot of information that leads me to believe I should create an...
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School of Visual Arts Announces MFA Program in Social Documentary Film
Is there value in creating art that is socially aware? The educators at the School of...
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Documentary Channel Honors John Huston
Everyone knows Oscar-winning director John Huston as the man behind such classic fiction films as The...
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Dawn of the Doc
Winged Migration (2003) Five years ago, I was standing on line at a Sundance documentary screening,”...
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The Soul of a German Man
Blues legend Skip James died in 1969, jaded by what he called “the music racket.” The...
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Liz Garbus Gets Out of Prison
Not often does one find a young documentary moviemaker carving a clearly defined niche early in...
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Once Upon a Time in America
"This was all about Teddy. Not just about doing it for him, but about keeping him...
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Rockets Redglare
Luis Fernandez de la Reguera, director of Rockets Redglare. In the late ’70s and early ’80s,...
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The Kid Stays in the Picture
The life of Robert Evans is capable of making even the most ardent overachiever feel positively barren and unproductive in comparison. Best...
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Toronto Gives Docs Their Due
Humiliated HUMILIATED Directed by Jesper Jargil; Denmark When veteran filmmaker Jesper Jargil was invited by Lars...
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