In the last year I've been on a number of panels about film festival strategies. It's clear that there isn't one simple plan that will work for every
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You've got a big shoot coming up in Asia, and potential disasters start popping up in your mind. What if your equipment gets tied up in customs
The New Americans, a Kartemquin Films documentary about immigration that airs on PBS from March 29-31, couldn't be more timely. From fear about
Park City, Utah, has a population of just over 7,000 people, but when the Sundance crowds—whom the locals refer to as "the people in black"—arrive
Back in 1983 I was living in San Francisco, and I read in the newspaper one day about a new documentary called The Atomic Café that had just opened. I
The Sundance Film Festival is an amazing, wild ride, with so many screenings, panels and events taking place simultaneously that it's tough to choose
In September 2013, I traveled to Morocco as a film envoy for the American Film Showcase (AFS), a partnership between the US Department of State's
Those of you who read this column regularly know that I believe the future for documentary makers includes a significant change in the way technology
In the spirit of the US presidential election year, the programmers at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival threw their hats into the ring with a cross