By Ray Zone and Chuck Roblin
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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
The 33rd CAAMFest—the Center for Asian American Media’s Asian-American film festival—has wrapped after 10 days of cinema, food and music in San
At SXSW, documentaries are a big feature of the film component, as SXSW itself metastasizes from a one-time tripartite festival (films, tech, music)
Sebastião Salgado, the subject of Wim Wenders’ latest documentary, The Salt of the Earth, has earned formidable renown for his photography projects
As we all know, documentaries are a labor of love—sometimes a long labor of a whole lotta love. And given the circumstances, some docs test our