I am reaching out to you, my fellow documentarians and multi-platform producers, to share your wisdom on finding and hiring transmedia collaborators.
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My Wish List for the Documentary Community
While others are organizing their list of gifts this holiday season, guest blogger Heather McIntosh provides her own list of wishes for the collective documentary community.
Continue reading this entry »Good Storytelling Takes Time
The news and documentary forms are complementary, but as guest blogger Heather McIntosh explains, popular online news is failing to lay a foundation for deeper inquiry.
Continue reading this entry »The 2011 Documentary Oscars: My Shortlist
Doc Soup Man Tom Roston proposes an entirely different list of 15 films that could have just as easily been deemed Oscar-worthy.
Continue reading this entry »Documentary vs. Video Art: Catching Up with RISD’s Dennis Hlynsky
The long-time digital video professor ponders the connection between new technology and the widening gap between filmmakers and video artists.
Continue reading this entry »Albert Maysles and Bradley Kaplan on the Post-9/11 Paul McCartney Doc ‘The Love We Make’
Legendary filmmaker Albert Maysles reflects on what led him to become a vérité filmmaker and connections between his new doc and the seminal Salesman.
Continue reading this entry »Reality Television Updates the Safari Documentary
Guest blogger Heather McIntosh looks at the long-running series “The Amazing Race” as an example of how reality TV has expanded established subgenres of documentary filmmaking.
Continue reading this entry »Asking More From Your Entry Fee
Edward J. Delaney offers 6 ways documentary festivals can be more accountable to their entry-fee-paying filmmakers.
Continue reading this entry »From Occupy Wall Street Protester to Live Documentarian
Thorin Caristo, an amateur cameraman, joined the Occupy Wall Street movement on Day One as a protester, but he was quickly persuaded to join its media team. Now livestreaming videos around the clock from Zuccotti Park, Caristo lets us in on how he’s documenting a burgeoning social-media uprising.
Continue reading this entry »The Elusive ‘General’ Audience
In a second post in a series on finding an audience for your documentary, Edward J. Delaney looks at how an emphasis on your film’s storyline can help you grow your audience beyond a small core of fans.
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Señorita Extraviada
May 22, 2013
7:00 pm
Irvine, California
Phi Lambda Rho is pleased to host their first annual Semana De La Mujer, a week-long event on the University of California, Irvine campus celebrating the complex and unique identity of Latinas. Through a series of events, including a screening of Señorita Extraviada, they hope to inform students about the issues affecting Latina students on campus, as well as issues affecting the Latina/o community as a whole. For more information, call (323) 246-8437.
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