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Documentary Filmmaking

In Praise of Arranged Marriage: Interview With Filmmaker Rama Burshtein About Fill the Void

Erica Abeel | Posted 05.23.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Tel Aviv, Ultra Orthodox Jewish Communities, Hadas Yaron, Hasidic Life, Fill the Void, Women Filmmakers, Documentary Filmmaking, Rama Burshtein, Female Filmmakers, Arranged Marriage, Entertainment News
Erica Abeel

"So many times in my life I went out hoping to find a spouse and came home empty handed. I wished someone would bring me options."

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Films Can Help Change the World

Bonnie Benjamin-Phariss | Posted 04.27.2013 | Impact
Read More: Girls Rising, Filmmaking, Documentary Filmmaking, Documentary, Documentaries, Documentary Film, Impactx, Girls Education, Impact News
Bonnie Benjamin-Phariss

Film is big business. We track its annual contribution to the "entertainment" sector in billions of dollars. But film is much more than simply entertainment. Film, it turns out, is an ideal catalyst for change.

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Cinema Eye Honors Recognizes 5 Broken Cameras, Bully, Detropia and The War Room

Kristin McCracken | Posted 03.24.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: American Museum of the Moving Image, Awards Season, Chris Hegedus, Documentary Filmmaking, Bully, Awards, D.A. Pennebaker, Detropia, Cinema Eye Honors 2013, Cinema Eye Honors, Entertainment News
Kristin McCracken

With only two categories rewarding documentary filmmaking at the annual Academy Awards, the nonfiction film community realized it had a void to fill in recognizing the outstanding work in their field.

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Video Projects Take Education To The Streets Of New York City

Posted 03.09.2013 | Home
Read More: Myblocknyc Education Videos, New York City Schools, Video, Documentary Filmmaking, Myblocknyc Education Foundation, Myblocknyceducation Videos, New York Schools, Myblocknyc, Home News

In one of the latest efforts that takes education beyond testing and the classroom, students in New York City are hitting the streets for some visual ...

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No Way Out But One: Custody, Abuse and the Family Courts

Nancy Doyle Palmer | Posted 12.26.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Barry Nolan, Garland Waller, No Way Out but One, Child Abuse, Documentary Filmmaking, Domestic Violence, Documentary Films, Entertainment News
Nancy Doyle Palmer

The film is advocacy journalism at its very best, exposing what can happen when men accused of abuse get custody in family courts.

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Andre Gregory's Life Chronicled in New Documentary

Steve Karras | Posted 12.04.2012 | Arts
Read More: Jewish-Refugee, Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory, Holocaust, Nazis, Eldridge Cleaver, My Dinner With Andre, Documentary Filmmaking, Documentary, Cindy Kleine, Arts News
Steve Karras

How does one begin to properly document a life, no matter how extraordinary, when it's far from over?

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David France's How to Survive a Plague Reveals How 6 Million Lived Through the AIDS Epidemic

Justine Browning | Posted 11.27.2012 | Gay Voices
Read More: Living With HIV/AIDs, How to Survive the Plague, HIV/AIDS, Filmmaking, Documentary Filmmaking, AIDs Epidemic, Documentary, HIV/AIDS Prevention, David France, Gay Voices News
Justine Browning

The archival-based documentary directed by renowned journalist David France manages to be moving, disquieting and gratifying all at once.

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'The Koch Brothers Exposed' -- A Conversation With Robert Greenwald

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.27.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Robert Greenwald, The Koch Brothers Exposed, Robert Greenwald Documentary, The Koch Brothers, Koch Brothers 1 Percent, Documentary Filmmaking, Robert Greenwald Filmmaking, Koch Brothers, Video, Voting Rights, Entertainment News
Marcia G. Yerman

Blazing the trail with novel ways to approach distribution, filmmaker Robert Greenwald has forged a new model for a mashup of documentary filmmaking and political activism.

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The Lives of Tiny House People: Direct Cinema Documentary (VIDEO)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 06.27.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: John Huston, Small Apartment, Direct Cinema, New York City, Small House, Tiny House People, We the Tiny House People, Tiny Apartment, Tiny House Documentary, Cinema, Small Space, Jay Shafer, Small Home, Small House Movement, Lego Apartment, Tiny House, Home Size, Simple Living, Free Documentary, Documentary, Tiny Home, Documentary Filmmaking, Video, Entertainment News
Kirsten Dirksen

This week I released via YouTube -- in an attempt to make it some type of "of the people, for the people" -- my documentary We the Tiny House People: Small Homes, Tiny Flats & Wee Shelters in the New and Old World.

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There Are No More Movie Stars (Or Why We Must Change Conventional Thinking About Making Movies

Peter Paige | Posted 06.25.2012 | Los Angeles
Read More: Reality TV, Hollywood Actors, The Artist, Bridesmaids, Actors, Movie Making, Filmmaking, Documentary Filmmaking, Jennifer Aniston, Meryl Streep, Film Industry, The Kardashians, Real Housewives, Celebrity, Kim Kardashian, Celebrities, Movie Stars, Los Angeles News
Peter Paige

There are no more movie stars. I blame TMZ and its reality show brethren, who have taken all the mystery out of celebrity. In movie-making, like pretty much every other business, the paradigm has changed, and we must respond accordingly.

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TEDxAthens 2011 -- What Took You So Long to Make Films Disruptive?

Sebastian Lindstrom | Posted 03.31.2012 | Impact
Read More: Ted, Tedx, Athens, Greece, TEDx Athens, Tedx Conferences, Documentary Filmmaking, Filmmaking, Impact News
Sebastian Lindstrom

Bringing some much-needed positive energy to a country wracked by economic woes, the theme of this year's TEDx event was disruption. From politics to storm chasing to filmmaking; how do we change the rules of the game?

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"Screw the Tripod!" Remebering Ricky Leacock (1921 - 2011)

Bill Lichtenstein | Posted 05.26.2011 | Media
Read More: Documentary Filmmaking, Albert Maysles, Cinema Verite, Charlotte Zwerin, Bill Lichtenstein, Documentary, Documentary Film, Documentaries, D.A. Pennebaker, Ricky-Leacock, Richard Leacock, Leacock, Media News
Bill Lichtenstein

It's rare to work in an established art form where you can work with and be influenced by those who invented the genre. Not so for documentary filmm...

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Books I Couldn't Put Down

Lesley Chilcott | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Education, Education Reform, Documentary Filmmaking, Filmmaking, Waiting for 'Superman', Home News
Lesley Chilcott

From a non-expert's point of view, I want to share some of the books that enlightened me, and I think other non-experts may enjoy reading as well.

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The Impact of Film on Development

Tom Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Ethiopia, Christian Children's Fund, Documentary Filmmaking, Lisa Russell, Caroline Baron, Mdgfive, Filmaid, Impact News
Tom Murphy

Caroline Baron of FilmAid and Lisa Russell of MDGFive made the case that film can be sued to change the lives of the undeserved at their UN Week Digital Media Lounge session yesterday.

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