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Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, blogs about documentaries and the Web in her column, Outside the Frame. Very good article that every documentary filmmaker should read before creating a website for their film. Her first point is crucial to follow… 1) Plan Early — Plan for your website at the [...]

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For many things. For the advice, the opportunity, the contacts, the thrill, the enthusiasm, the ideas, the interaction with TV Executives and for giving me a big push. The festival was a great place to make contacts as well as listen to Network Executives talk about the industry and where we (content providers) can fit [...]

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I can understand that Basil Tsiokos has seen it all and sometimes enough is enough. Basil Tsiokos is Programming Associate, Documentary Features for the Sundance Film Festival. He also screens for POV, has been a guest curator for the Jacob Burns Film Center, and regularly watches hundreds a film a year through programming or at [...]

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I am not Marshall…so I didn’t get the job. I can deal, for now. Springtime is here and that means a lot of businesses and films are ready to shoot. I have about 3 plugins/software apps to review in the next few weeks and getting crazy amounts of referral based business, which to me is [...]

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I got an email from a fellow documentary filmmaker interested in using some footage from my documentary, “Greensboro’s Child“. My documentary deals with the Greensboro Massacre, in which 5 anti klan protesters were shot and killed during a “Death to the Klan” rally on November 3rd, 1979. The footage he is inquiring about is of [...]

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Deborah Scranton the Director of “The War Tapes,” is at it again. This time as the Director of “Bad Voodoo’s War,” premieres Tuesday, April 1st, 2008, FRONTLINE at 9 P.M. ET on PBS. “Here we are. It’s about 2:30 in the morning on the 2nd of October. We have been on the road for a [...]

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Once again, “Greensboro’s Child,” was screened in Greensboro. I thought it was a dead deal this year. Three days after November 3rd, I got a call from Brad Akin, a Director from Steep Theater company in Chicago, interested in researching and learning more about November 3rd, 1979. He is going to to put on a [...]

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OK future jobs hold off your high paying gigs for at least the next month. I’ve signed on to be a part of the crew for Micah Moore’s, “Dog’s of Chinatown” an Independent Feature length film. The cool part about this film is the vision Micah has for it and the cast he has assembled [...]

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A documentary on the designer Paula Scher. Directed by: Hillman Curtis

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