Tag: Documentaries
Monday roundup: PBS releases Peg + Cat album, AFI Docs to honor Gibney
Plus: A libertarian op-ed calls on pubradio listeners to open their wallets, and Pacifica faces yet another lawsuit.When developing films, Ken Burns selects topics that make “light bulbs go off”
Ken Burns decides on films through a deliberative process, involving both his creative team and accommodating PBS’s desire for multipart series that ...Al Jazeera America: A news model pubTV should look to emulate
Most nationally distributed public TV series are docile and dull. The system could learn much from the bold, daring AJAM.Focus on anti-terrorism becomes ‘life-changing’ story for filmmaker Poitras
After plumbing the global repercussions of America’s war against terrorism, documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras helped expose how that war has stripped away ...WEDU debuts doc on troubling local issue that few see in their midst: human trafficking
WEDU's Too Close to Home, which was previewed to a packed theatre before its Sept. 26 broadcast debut, reports personal stories behind a troubling ...AFI Docs festival screens diverse pubTV films
Public TV was less visible at this year's American Film Institute documentary festival. Yet several of the 10 films that had received ...MoMA to spotlight POV during its yearly ‘Documentary Fortnight’
As part of its annual “Documentary Fortnight,” the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City is celebrating 25 years of ...A growing push for data-driven documentary filmmaking
Wendy Levy, the director of arts consultancy group New Arts AXIS, called for documentary filmmakers to embrace big data tools as a ...APT re-releases Escape from Iran as its fictional twin, Argo, vies for Oscars
The storyline of a Canadian film coming to public TV stations this month has all the trappings of a gripping yarn: intrigue, ...Kickstarter users have given more than $42M to documentaries
Crowdfunding website Kickstarter announced Thursday that independent film projects on its site had passed the $100 million mark in pledges since its ...Ken Burns, defending PBS in USA Today, pits Reagan’s words against Romney’s
PBS documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose extensive credits include The Civil War, Baseball and the upcoming The Dust Bowl, authored an editorial in Tuesday’s USA Today in which he ...George Stoney, public-access television pioneer, dies at 96
George Stoney, a pioneering documentarian widely regarded as the father of public-access television, died July 12 at his Manhattan home, days after ...Film captures a city in turmoil, recovery
Producers of the documentary As Goes Janesville found themselves, quite by accident, in the midst of three national news stories during filming.NEA slashes funds to WNET arts series, elevates digital media
The Arts on Radio and Television fund of the National Endowment for the Arts, a source of millions of programming dollars for ...Localore backs crowdsourcing, collaborative doc projects
The projects will help reimagine how local public broadcasters serve and engage their communities.
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