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Fellows Perspectives: Heather Taylor

March 07, 2014

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This week, we began the second year of the Docs In Progress Fellowship Program. We were pleased to welcome ten new Fellows who come with a variety of experiences, backgrounds, and film projects.  T...

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Five Ways to Give Constructive Criticism

October 13, 2013

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by Erica Ginsberg, Executive Director of Docs In Progress Docs In Progress was founded upon the principle of helping documentary filmmakers through the power of constructive criticism.  Since our v...

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AFI DOCS: Some final thoughts: Erica Ginsberg

July 30, 2013

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Since my previous blog called Reserving Judgment on AFI DOCS got people talking (even referenced in a Washington Post article about festival director Sky Sitney), I wanted to close the loop and sha...

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AFI DOCS: an Intern's Perspective: Hannah Myers

July 07, 2013

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After getting quite a bit of feedback on our post Reserving Judgment on AFI DOCS (including it being linked to in a Washington Post article on Festival Director Sky Sitney), the Docs In Progress cr...

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Reserving Judgment on AFI DOCS

May 28, 2013

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by Erica Ginsberg Change is hard.  We constantly experience it, resist it, and eventually adapt to it.  (If you don’t believe me, how many “New Facebooks” have you complained about in your status u...

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Les Blank and the Art of Listening

May 15, 2013

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By Guest Contributor Josh Glick, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University in Film Studies and American Studies [caption id="attachment_2887" align="alignleft" width="180"] Les Blank and Werner...

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