A few years ago, in an attempt to escape the onslaught of "reality" and other tawdry genres taking over much of the documentary world, I decided to
Education
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Editor's Note: This is a condensed, revised and updated version of an article on documentary production training that appeared in the November 2001
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If you want to be a documentary/nonfiction filmmaker, making your first film is the first step (Note: The term “film” refers to “film and/or video and
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Teacher Tony Saavedra scoffed when he heard that IDA was bringing 40 weeks of documentary study and production to his high school English class in San
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"I don't believe in the objectivity of the filmmaker," Hatem Kraiche asserts as he introduces himself. "l do believe in the honesty of the filmmaker."
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Turning their cameras on the problems of American middle-class youth has been a favorite pre-occupation for filmmakers since the word teen-ager was
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It happens in the documentary world, as it does in any artistic milieu: Two filmmakers, unbeknownst to one another, set out to make likeminded
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For the second year running, the East Coast IDA presented its Production Seminar Series last May at Kodak’s New York office of Professional Motion
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For the past three years Marina Goldovskaya, renowned documentarian and professor at the UCLA School of Film and Television, has organized—in
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Les Blank appears and then fades into the hazy Arkansas sunlight. Now you see him, now you don’t. He is like a ghost, an ephemera, a shadow of a soul