Approaching the completion of its first half-century, the Internationale Filrnfestspiele Berlin is bigger, better than ever, despite its imperiled
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The Tribeca Film Festival continues to be a highly sought-after showcase for new longform documentary work, and an unofficial but key marketplace
The 18th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, which ran April 9 through 12 in Durham, NC, was a four-day fest crammed with documentaries
Before viewing Brett Morgen's new documentary, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, I had to jump through a few online security hurdles in order to watch the
Documentarians face quandaries at every phase of the process. Is it ethical to film this subject? What footage do I include? Do I have a "right" to
This article was co-authored by Chris Palmer and filmmaker Shannon Lawrence. Documentary filmmaking requires acknowledgement and application of
One of your characters confesses a life-changing secret to his wife while you're filming—should you use it? Your character said something terrific in
In some ways it's difficult to imagine what America was like before 1971. Communism had been represented for decades in the media as an Orwellian hell
Back in 2001, filmmaker Allison Berg thought she was prepared. She was in the process of editing her first documentary film, Witches in Exile, when a