n the Documentary world, it’s fairly common to fall into the journalistic route and shoot a “news” piece rather than a film. Often times, filmmakers find these incredible stories, but the subjects are not willing to let access into their lives in a meaningful way over a long period of time. Or sometimes you really…
Lets start with the end of the story first. It was the tenth day; the final day. Actually, it was technically the eleventh day. We had been driving for almost 18 hours straight, a bee-line from Easthampton, Massachusetts back to our home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The moment happened somewhere near the Illinois/Wisconsin border. All of a sudden…
“So you want to make a movie?” That was the message that flowed through my mind when I first came up with the idea for my documentary “In the Mix: DJs Doing Work”. I wanted to do something about the culture that I love, hip-hop, and I knew that anything about hip-hop had to begin…
Ken Burns is one of America’s leading documentary filmmakers. With career spanning over 30 years, his work includes seminal documentaries “The Civil War” (1990), “Baseball” (1994), “Jazz” (2001), “The War” (2007), and “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea” (2009). Ken has won seven Emmy Awards, and received two Oscar nominations. In this interview for Penn State Public Broadcasting’s “Conversations from Penn…
Don’t Panic is an online magazine with a TV channel. They’ve been in touch to let us know that they’re currently looking for new filmmakers to propose ideas which they will consider funding to turn into films. The shorts must be factual (i.e. documentaries) and sit within one of the following broad subject areas: Arts, Music, Film, Politics, Style, or Technology. To submit your…
The LFMP ‘Video meets Baby Boomers‘ is looking for some talented filmmakers to document how people 50+ interact with technology. So grab your video camera and make a short documentary featuring yourself, family members, teachers or other acquaintances. Is there a generation gap going on with technology? What is the difference between how boomers use technology versus how teens and…
I just finished working on a set of a documentary about poverty and developmental politics in Latin America. This documentary led our team through villas in Buenos Aires and slums in Brazil. The amount of knowledge acquired is, beyond debate, more than I received in an equivalent amount of time in my University Classes. However, as we started…
