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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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Fellows Corner: Cheryle Franceschi

April 20, 2013

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ine emerging documentary filmmakers are currently participating in Docs In Progress’ inaugural Fellowship Program. As part of this eight month program, we have asked our Fellows to tell us a little...

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A message from Executive Director Erica Ginsberg

December 27, 2012

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  Meeting and working with Docs In Progress flipped a switch, so to speak, and they gave me the confidence and solid direction I needed to become a documentary filmmaker.   It may be hard to believ...

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Our Favorite Election-Themed Docs

November 04, 2012

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Just in time for Tuesday's U.S. General Election, we decided to shine the spotlight on a few of our favorite election-themed documentaries.  Executive Director Erica Ginsberg and one of our favorit...

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