"My name is Alanis Obomsawin. I am an Abenaki woman from Odenak, Québec," she proclaims. Her life reads like a storybook legend. She was born on
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Shoestring budgets, borrowed equipment, deferred pay, intermittent and interminable production schedules—these have become the required ingredients in
The IDA Awards were created in 1984, as part of our organization's intense desire to improve the recognition of documentaries and the filmmakers who
With the roll-out of one political doc after another this fall, it's easy to forget that documentarians can start out in art school as well as
The 26th Independent Feature Project's (IFP) Film Market, held in New York in September, aimed to "bring together the business and creative
There are few places where a first-time filmmaker can receive the same warm welcome as, say, Richard Leacock, a pioneer of cinema vérité. There are
"I went into documentaries because I wanted to make socially responsible movies. It was a way to use cinematography to make a statement about the
Artwork for Marc Levitz' I Survived BTK, Courtesy of Marc D. Levitz In a 2006 article about the Emmy Awards that appeared in Documentary magazine, the
From Ken Burns’ The Dust Bowl. Courtesy of Historic Adobe Museum It is a well-worn cliché that "a picture is worth a thousand words." Often, there is
Don't you just love archival footage? At its best, it's a window into the past and a revelation about a period in time. A scene of kids hula-hooping