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Fall 2011

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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Features
Feature | Fall 2011
The Single Shot Cinema of Leonard Retel Helmrich
By Tom White
CinematographyProfile
Feature | Fall 2011
Directors Uncut: Notes on One Team's Process
By Heidi Ewing
DirectingEthics
Feature | Fall 2011
Making Things Happen (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Producing)
By Eddie Schmidt
Producing
Feature | Fall 2011
The Write Wing: Defining the Role of the Writer in Nonfiction
By Taylor Segrest
AwardsEditingWriting
Feature | Fall 2011
A Sundance Mash-Up: Composers + Documentary Lab = Collaboration
By angad bhalla
Sundance
Feature | Fall 2011
It's a New Day: Collective Distribution
By Daniel James Scott
Distribution
Feature | Fall 2011
Archive Verite : Editing as an Art Form
By Michael Rose
Editing
Columns
Column | Fall 2011
Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Fall 2011
By Tom White
Fast Foreword
Column | Fall 2011
Notes from the Reel World: The President's Column, Fall 2011
By Eddie Schmidt
Notes from the Reel World
Column | Fall 2011
Survival Techniques: Clearing the Hurdles of a Career in Nonfiction
By Cynthia Close
Book ReviewsBusinessReality Ink
Column | Fall 2011
Learn Distribution at Home: Courshon Reveals the Secrets
By Oliver Tuthill
DistributionBusiness
Column | Fall 2011
Museum Piece: A Different Kind of Documentary Exhibition
By Tamara Krinsky
Short Films
Column | Fall 2011
Funded by Science: HHMI Announces $60 Million Documentary Initiative
By Tamara Krinsky
Funding
Column | Fall 2011
The Perils of Peacemaking: Women in War as Agents of Change
By Frako Loden
TV Docs