Fall 2011

The Craft of Doc-Making Fall 2011

We look at each aspect of the craft of docmaking in a different way—not necessarily comprehensive or definitive, but different,

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Fall 2011

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Features

The Single Shot Cinema of Leonard Retel Helmrich

Helmrich's 'Position Among the Stars' is nominated...

By Tom White

Directors Uncut: Notes on One Team's Process

by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Alfred Hitchcock...

By Heidi Ewing

Making Things Happen (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Producing)

"Before I met you," one Emmy-nominated, highly...

By Rachel Kamerman

The Write Wing: Defining the Role of the Writer in Nonfiction

Editor's Note: You can see Alex Gibney in...

By Taylor Segrest

A Sundance Mash-Up: Composers + Documentary Lab = Collaboration

'Herman's House' premieres in theaters April 19...

By angad bhalla

It's a New Day: Collective Distribution

New Day Films celebrates its 40th anniversary in...

By Daniel James Scott

Archive Verite : Editing as an Art Form

'The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975' opens...

By Michael Rose

Columns

Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Fall 2011

By Tom White

Notes from the Reel World: The President's Column, Fall 2011

By Rachel Kamerman

Survival Techniques: Clearing the Hurdles of a Career in Nonfiction

By Cynthia Close

Learn Distribution at Home: Courshon Reveals the Secrets

By Oliver Tuthill

Museum Piece: A Different Kind of Documentary Exhibition

By Tamara Krinsky

Funded by Science: HHMI Announces $60 Million Documentary Initiative

By Tamara Krinsky

The Perils of Peacemaking: Women in War as Agents of Change

By Frako Loden