When a film series is named after an anthropologist and staged in a museum, you expect certain things—like an air of earnestness and a near-constant
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The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) was really three events, all of extreme interest to documentary filmmakers. First there
The annual New York Film Festival, in business at Lincoln Center since 1963, customarily screens up to four documentaries. But the festival this year
When the central government of a nation state chooses to spend money to subsidize independent documentary screenings, it’s clear that its economy is
“We spend 12 years in school learning the language of the written word, but no time on the language of the visual image,” filmmaker Jennifer Fox noted
After a week of endless meetings, screenings, seminars, lunches, cocktails, dinners, late night drinks and non-stop schmoozing, the 11,000+ buyers and
Editor’s note—It seems so many moons ago—but it was only last year—when filmmaker Doug Block took that one giant leap for filmkind and launched his
Film school offers students a bundle of resources, including a learned faculty, access to a wide variety of movies, shared camaraderie with fellow
The Internet is defined and perpetuated by communities of interest, rather than by regional communities. Whereas broadcast stations reach audiences in
In the months ahead, jazz will receive unprecedented television exposure through the landmark, nineteen-hour series by Ken Burns, simply called Jazz