'The House I Live In' opens October 5 in New York City.
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'California Forever' airs in September and October on PBS stations.
Making documentaries about controversial subjects is like walking on broken glass. Painful, bloody and exhilarating. I have spent the last 25 years making films that chronicle the often perverse but always thrilling careers of the megalomaniac titans that play larger-than-life roles in show business. I'm not sure what it is that attracts me to making films about moguls. It could be their Faustian exercise of power or their frequent Shakespearean falls from grace. In the process, I have been followed, berated and threatened with bodily harm, litigation and career suicide. I have put my head in
'Escape Fire' opens October 5 through Roadside Attractions.
Have you ever considered making the leap from film to radio docs?
'How to Survive a Plague' opens September 21 through Sundance Selects.
'The Waiting Room' opens in theaters September 26 through International Film Circuit.
" Motion pictures are the Rosetta Stone of our times. They are how future generations will know who we were, what we did and how we felt about our world." --Guillermo Navarro, ASC, AMC That salient observation says it all, and officials at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are listening and acting. They are deeply engaged in an ambitious two-year endeavor to find, restore, if necessary, and archive narrative, documentary and experimental movies on motion picture film while it is still available. "We are reaching out to documentary filmmakers, organizations and libraries and
Arnold Shapiro to receive IDA Career Achievement Award; Sundance Institute to receive IDA's Pioneer Award.
Veteran filmmaker Amanda Pope asks a panel of filmmakers about their experiences watching stories unfold in front of a camera.