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Our latest project is a cinema verite short about a local men’s fashion store in a gentrifying DC neighborhood. We’ve spent almost two full days in the store filming the salesmen chatting … more →
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Sheffield Doc/Fest 9 days away
wrote 1 day ago: Over 75 industry sessions, masterclasses and interviews with filmmakers will be at Sheffield Doc/fes … more →
Day 25
wrote 5 days ago: May 30th, 2012 Another round of production meetings today. In between we were interviewed down by th … more →
Day 16
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wrote 2 weeks ago: May 21st, 2012 Ew, Monday. Actually today wasn’t that bad, except for on and off pouring rain. … more →
Atlantis of the Sands
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Lawrence of Arabia Mr. Dryden: Lawrence, only two kinds of creature get fun in the desert: Bedouins … more →
Alfred Hitchcock
wrote 4 weeks ago: In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. … more →
From the archives: Rebecca Richman Cohen's WAR DON DON
wrote 1 month ago: In light of this week’s conviction of ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor at The Hague for wa … more →
INTERVIEW: Turkish filmmaker Orkide Unsur
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wrote 1 month ago: “I like to surprise the audience and make them reconsider ordinary or familiar subjects which … more →
{(UPDATED) NOW WITH ADDITIONAL CONTEXT} How to Document an Intellectual Disaster
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wrote 1 month ago: ++++++ ATTENTION REGULAR READERS (I’m pretty sure most of you are irregular so don’t wor … more →
INTERVIEW: Therese Shechter, director of How to Lose Your Virginity
wrote 1 month ago: Director Therese Shechter (Photo courtesy of Trixie Films) BIOGRAPHY Therese Shechter deftly uses hu … more →
New Journey Rock Doc [video]
wrote 1 month ago: That Band from The City By The Bay has a wrapped a new documentary based on the meteoric, rise to fa … more →
Kickstarter Launch! "From the Eyes of Buddha" Documentary
wrote 1 month ago: Screening camp by the Tilganga Eye Institute, Kathmandu, Nepal. Photograph by Joel Addams KATHMANDU, … more →
SPOTLIGHT: Small Small Thing
wrote 1 month ago: Writer-director Jessica Vale, with producer Nika Offenbac, are making a powerful documentary film ca … more →
UnCommon Herstories
wrote 2 months ago: March 31 Who: Ja’Tovia Gary What: Originally from Dallas, Texas, Ja’Tovia Gary currently lives … more →
The Cove: Truthful Yet Systematic
wrote 2 months ago: The film, The Cove, is a very insightful documentary, which reveals the atrocious dolphin slaughter … more →
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wrote 2 months ago: Listen Up! In honor of the new spring forward, here’s another remix via Red Line D.C. This tim … more →
This Is Not a Film
wrote 2 months ago: Many heard the news about Jafar Panahi, the Iranian filmmaker who was given a six-year jail sentence … more →
The Effect Minamata's Disease Had On Victims and Their Families' Relationship to The Environment and Food
wrote 2 months ago: Tokiyoshi prepares an octopus for his meal Noriaki Tsuchimoto’s documentary: Minamata: Th … more →
Fact and Fiction at True/False
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wrote 3 months ago: Some could argue that the ultimate multimedia experience is viewing a documentary film. Documentarie … more →
