About seven years ago, I saw an article in the Los Angeles Times about a “forgotten colony” of American Civil War-era Confederates in the town of
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On September 11 and the days that followed, New York-based documentary filmmakers responded in different ways—some recorded what they saw on video
If you want to be a documentary/nonfiction filmmaker, making your first film is the first step (Note: The term “film” refers to “film and/or video and
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I live in New York, and on September 11 I was home, less than 20 blocks from the World Trade Center Towers. I could have watched their undoing in
Last June, visitors to the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival at New York’s Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center were presented with a
The verdict is in: Court TV is a hit. In the past two years, the basic cable channel has seen its availability rise from 40 million homes to 60
Teacher Tony Saavedra scoffed when he heard that IDA was bringing 40 weeks of documentary study and production to his high school English class in San
Three minutes…28 international judges…and cash prizes totaling $100,000. No, this is not the latest addition to this fall’s primetime game show line
The fourth annual DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival (DDFF) was held last spring in Durham, North Carolina. Having fielded 530 submissions and