It was standing room only at the LEF/DocYard sponsored panel "When Does A
Story Become a Film?: From Idea to Documentary" at IFFB on Sunday.
Filmmaker Chico Colvard teased stories from his non-fiction colleagues
Annie Sundberg, Ian Cheney, Jeanne Jordan and Steve Ascher to hear their
many lessons learned in the field.
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In an attempt to end my own laments at the long, thoughtful and studied blog entry on women in the documentary field in New England that I lost to the four corners, I instead make this appeal to everyone to step away from the computer and go meet someone in person.
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I have to say that when the online fundraising hype-machine first got started, I didn’t buy it.
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It's September already. If you haven't had the chance to get to a Docyard screening at the Brattle this past summer, the last film is Lixin Fan's Last Train Home on Monday, 13 September.
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If it’s too late for you to start bilingual-immersion kindergarten like the kids in Speaking in Tongues, second-language films are one way to get exposure
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Watching Fred Wiseman’s Hospital at the last Docyard screening, as patients at New York’s Metropolitan Hospital bled and vomited their way into our hearts, I kept wondering “How is he filming this?”
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