July 2003

Cable Hook-Up July 2003

Cable companies has been part of the American home entertainment landscape since the mid-'70s. In this issue, we profile three of them: Discovery Times, TRIO Channel and MTV.

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Features

From 'Tupac' to 'True Life': The Story's the Thing at MTV's Documentary Division

Lauren Lazin began her tenure at MTV in 1992, when...

By Patricia Troy

Awakening New Ways of Perception: The Visions Du Réel Film Festival

The Visions du Réel Festival ( www.visionsdureel...

By Henry Lewes

The 'Old Grey Lady' Is Ready For Her Close-Up: A Conversation with the Executives Behind Discovery Times Channel

This spring, The New York Times Company and...

By Barbara Rick

Business as Usual During Wartime: MIPDOC and MIP-TV Soldier On Despite World Events

International travel just as war is breaking out...

By Richard Propper

International INPUT into Public Television

Whether you think that INPUT is a festival for...

By Patricia Aufderheide

War Becomes the Inadvertent Theme at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

I attended the sixth annual Full Frame Documentary...

By Emily Edwards

Power Trips and Veiled Appearances: A Critical Look at the Provocative Docs in the San Francisco International Film Festival

Birds in flight and birds in fights. Public power...

By Tom Powers

The Tarheel Challenge: The State of Documentary Making in Nonunion North Carolina

North Carolina is a "right to work" state, which...

By Emily Edwards

When the Media Meet: Working on Both Stage and Screen

Theater begins alone, a seed in the mind of a...

By Tamara Krinsky

A Family Affair: Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki Discusses How He Captured 'The Friedmans'

Documentary filmmaker Andrew Jarecki knew he had...

By Kathleen Fairweather

Conspiracy Theories, Mating Rituals and Untraditional Traditions: TRIO Channel Looks for Offbeat Docs

It wasn't too long ago when documentary films were...

By Kathleen Fairweather

Columns

For Your I's Only

By Ray Zone

Notes from the Reel World: The Board President's Column, July 2003

By Michael Donaldson

Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, July 2003

By Tom White

Leon Gast's 'When We Were Kings'

By Sherry Simpson-Dean