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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August 11, 2014
By Guest Contributor Josh Glick, Assistant Professor of English and Film at Hendrix College, Mellon Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University in the Integrated Humanities Watching Life Itself (201...
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July 01, 2014
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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June 13, 2014
by Erica Ginsberg AFI DOCS is back for its second year under its new moniker (I give it one more year before we stop saying "The festival formerly known as Silverdocs.") While the namechange isn't ...
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June 06, 2014
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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