With Sundance’s 2012 lineup announced, guest blogger Edward J. Delaney highlights the unconventional approach of one of the selected docs and its filmmakers, Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky.
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The United States of Documentaries (Map)
A state-by-state breakdown of the best, most representative and most unique documentaries from the 50 states and Washington, D.C.
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 »Next on POV: ‘Where Soldiers Come From’
POV’s 2011 season on PBS concludes Thursday, November 10, 2011, with the U.S. broadcast premiere of Where Soldiers Come From, a compelling documentary following childhood friends from Michigan to the battlefield of Afghanistan and back.
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.
Continue reading this entry »Documentaries Raise Awareness about Domestic and Gendered Violence
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Guest blogger Heather McIntosh of Documentary Site rounds up a list of related documentary viewing.
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Homegoings
June 21, 2013
7:30 pm
New York, New York
Firelight Media, POV and the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ) present the Harlem premiere of New York filmmaker Christine Turner’s debut feature documentary, Homegoings, at the historic Apollo Theater. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film subjects and director Christine Turner. Visit homegoingsharlem.eventbrite.com to register online. First come, first served. Registration does not guarantee admission
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