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Oh, those celebrity documentaries
I’m always leery about documentaries made by celebrities. I’m not talking about people who are celebrities because of the docs — the Moores, Burnses...
Stacking two EOS cameras for a light travel kit
I’m going to LA to shoot two interviews this week, and I’ve been sorting out how to do the best possible setup that is easiest to carry. I...
New Oscar Eligibility Rules Could Shut Out Great Documentaries
I sometimes wonder not only if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences realizes it’s imposing 1930’s sensibilities on a 2012 world, but if...
2012: What’s In Store for The Filmmaking 99 Percent?
When I watch a documentary these days, it’s usually on TV or on a DVD, and it’s rare that I can tell what kind of camera was used. That’s a good...
The RSA Animate Series Straddles a Squiggly Line Between Web Video and Documentary
If you can describe a documentary as a series of moving images telling a true story, then almost anything can apply. From The New Yorker magazine’s...
‘Caged’
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‘Indie Game: The Movie’ Rides $100,000 in Kickstarter Donations to Sundance 2012 Premiere
Back in July, I interviewed Canadian documentary filmmakers Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky, who were at work on their documentary Indie Game: The Movie,...
RED is Shipping Scarlet-X Digital Video Cameras (Three Years Later)
When the RED Scarlet was announced three and a half years ago at NAB 2008, it was gasp-inducing. RED proclaimed it would produce a camera that could shoot...
Pros leave FCPX – where are they headed?
The “X” in Final Cut Pro was supposed to mean “10,” but it seems as if for a lot of professional editors, it’s become the...
LA doc makers looking to move third-party pitches forward
We profiled Biagio Messina and Joke Fincioen for their documentary “Dying to Do Letterman,” and they got in touch to put the word out on a...
What’s with entry fees?
I talked with a New York-based documentary filmmaker recently who bemoans the black hole that many film-festival submissions have become. After forking...
Collaborative project ‘99 Percent’ seeks filmmakers
Here’s a press release that tells the story of what looks to be an interesting attempt at collaborative filmmaking: Read More →
Could Documentaries Form the Core of the Cross-Platform Story Revolution?
As audiences come to expect interaction along with media consumption, “old” media is showing documentarians the potential for video as a...