Tell Them Who You Are, which will be released theatrically in April through THINKFilm, is a 95-minute summary of a personal journey for Mark S. Wexler, who explores the career of his famous father, cinematographer Haskell Wexler. The story unfolds through Mark's eyes, and in the words of his dad's collaborators and friends. The documentary is carved out of some 120 hours of material, which includes interviews spiced with the young Wexler's own sometimes-acerbic conversations with his father. Haskell Wexler, ASC, is truly a legend in his own time. He earned Oscars for Who's Afraid of Virginia
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Since 1990, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato have been bringing their unique take on the world to screens both big and small. In an industry where yesterday’s doc becomes tomorrow’s reality show and the gay channel has to become less so to survive, the duo has not only produced some of the most most-watched, cutting-edge programming of the past two decades, but have also created one of the media world’s most successful independent production companies and distinctive brands, World of Wonder. From award winning in-depth character studies ( The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Monica in Black in White) to
Remember back in the late 1990s, when the dot-com world was taking off? There was talk of the Internet replacing "brick and mortar" businesses. The days of face-to-face interaction were numbered. This was also the time when it looked like the Internet was going to become a haven for e-commerce and nothing else. While online vitamin shops and hoola-hoop specialty stores came and went, there were visionary documentarians looking to the Internet as a way to serve the documentary community. The fruits of their labors have been great: The D-Word recently celebrated its fifth birthday, which
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The 2005 Sundance Film Festival opened on Inauguration Day and, as an encore to the politically charged year that had just passed, featured an impressive slate of issues-driven docs, as well as a handful of nonfiction films bound to shiver the timbers of many a red-blooded Utahan. Inside Deep Throat, the latest from Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, examines the early 1970s zeitgeist surrounding the release of Deep Throat, the wildly successful porn film that triggered a national debate about the First Amendment, obscenity, sexual liberation and exploitation. Barbato and Bailey populate the
In a master class entitled "The Art of the Tease," held at the 2005 RealScreen Summit in Washington, DC, in February, two hooks were cited to entice viewers to watch a program: sex, greed and fear, and the Seven Deadly Sins (pride, envy, anger, sloth, avarice, gluttony, lust). Coupled with a metaphor from THINKFilm's Mark Urman--"Films are like cockroaches--there are lots of them; some survive and breed, and some get squashed and stepped on, languish and die."--RealScreen was off to a start. Filmmaker Errol Morris delivered the keynote address, describing himself as a rule-breaker who got to