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In a letter to the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Debra Chasnoff and over 150 filmmakers ask for clarification on why an innocent filmmaker is repeatedly being detained and interrogated at the US border.
We are pulling this article from the archive to promote our upcoming Doc U: Shooting Overseas: Making Your Doc on Foreign Soil at the AFCI Locations Show at the L.A. Convention Center. On Friday, June 15, we are hosting a panel of doc filmmakers who have traveled the globe and film commissioners whose job it is to make filming in their countries as straightforward as possible. Register for the AFCI Locations Show and RSVP for this free Doc U today! I've spent a third of my professional life in the developing world. The toughest experiences have been filming a documentary in Cameroon, West
When we think of documentary filmmakers, we think of work that has a pattern: conceive, research, document, edit, distribute. Of course, that's a generalization, but if I had my cell phone/video camera pointed at a protest in Central Park, and transmitted what I had shot to a website, you wouldn't call that a documentary. But the lines are blurry, as technology makes real-time storytelling part of the future of the nonfiction world we live in. A number of institutions are breaking extraordinary ground in real-time storytelling and the evolution of citizen media. Take a look at NowPublic.com
'Chely Wright: Wish Me Away' opens June 1 through First Run Features.
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For the second year in a row, NBC News Archives supports IDA's DocuWeeks program.
After a major victory was won at PBS, Doc U panelists discuss what's next for public broadcasting.
"Change. It's scary," states the "About" page on nfb.ca/interactive, the website for Canada's National Film Board. Indeed it is, especially for a 70-plus-year-old government institution. Then again, the NFB has long explored the possibilities of the moving image, having produced over 13,000 groundbreaking animated and documentary films in its long history. So it should come as no surprise that the NFB is playing a leading role in the development of the so-called "interactive documentary." Some of the early projects evolved as interactive companion sites to NFB-produced documentaries such as
The Feeling of Being There: A Filmmaker's Memoir By Richard Leacock Edited by Valerie LaLonde Semeion Editions, 2011: 357 pages with black and white and color photographs and accompanying DVB. Hardcover Version: 199 euros ($263) Paperback version: 89 euros ($118) Interpreting history and marking the passage of time are two main tasks of documentary. The Feeling of Being There: A Filmmaker's Memoir, by Richard Leacock, does both of these things in this arresting and unique autobiography. Leacock, known throughout his long career as a technical innovator as well as a superb cinematographer