Pitching your documentary to a prospective funder, programmer or distributor used to be something you only did in elevators or noisy bars while clutching a watery gin and tonic. Now, it’s become a formalized, high-pressure event in and of itself. Pitch forums at Hot Docs, IDFA, Camden, Tribeca, and AmDocs exist for filmmakers who must […]
“Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.” –Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire There seem to be so many music documentaries these days. The Wrecking Crew, Twenty Feet From Stardom, Muscle Shoals, Montage of Heck, What Happened, Miss Simone? But despite the range of subject matter–from backroom jams to grunge rock to soulful vocals–these […]
“Into the Zone” is a production diary about the making of the feature length documentary, Zona Intangible. The film tells the story of a health clinic in a squatter’s city near Lima, Peru; the refugees who founded the city after fleeing their Andean homes (which had become a battleground in a civil war between government […]
“Into the Zone” is a production diary about the making of the feature length documentary, Zona Intangible. The film tells the story of a health clinic in a squatter’s city near Lima, Peru; the refugees who founded the city after fleeing their Andean homes (which had become a battleground in a civil war between government troops and Shining Path guerrillas); and the man whose name […]