May 05, 2015
How did a blog post evolve into a full-fledged documentary film? 2015 Fellow Day Al-Mohammed reflects on how a passion for history and for disability rights led her to the story of the Civil War's...
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May 04, 2015
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) are major federal sources of funding for documentary films. As a result, getting funded is quite compet...
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April 30, 2015
From time to time, we welcome Docs In Progress community members to share their thoughts on films out in the doc-o-sphere. Beth Kelly recently checked out a Chinese environmental documentary which...
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April 05, 2015
Throughout the year, we’ll be featuring each of our Fellows as guest bloggers where they will share their thoughts on their films, filmmaking, or anything they think would be of interest to the doc...
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March 08, 2015
by Jason Osder In January, I had the opportunity to attend my first Sundance Film Festival as a fellow of The Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program. Along with William Youmans, a colleague ...
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March 04, 2015
During the holidays, WNET (PBS largest affiliate, based in New York City) announced it would take the independent film series POV and Independent Lens off the national PBS carriage schedule. While...
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February 28, 2015
by Matthew Radcliff, Co-Organizer, WIFV/Docs In Progress Documentary Roundtable Every other month, the WIFV/Docs In Progress Documentary Roundtable welcomes filmmakers and industry experts to discu...
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January 03, 2015
Nominations for the 2015 Academy Awards will be announced on January 15. But the race for Best Feature Documentary has been on for a while since the Academy announced the 15 films which had been sh...
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December 16, 2014
by Guest Contributor Josh Glick, Yale University The 10-part Showtime documentary series, The Untold History of the United States (2012), and the theatrically released documentary feature, Citizenf...
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October 14, 2014
by John Filson Are you a new filmmaker, or aspiring to be? Do you feel a tug on your heart to make positive change in the world, and want to use the power of film? This note is for you. It can take...
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