Tag: Documentaries
Not In Our Town: ‘Public media at its best’ seeks civility
A movement against hate crimes called Not In Our Town, spawned by a 1995 documentary on PBS, has come to represent many ...Financial outlook dims for indies in public media
Independent journalists in public media are having an increasingly tough time earning a living as producers for public TV and radio, according ...Changes at Maine documentary school worry its devoted alumni
The departure of the entire four-person faculty from Maine’s small but influential Salt Institute for Documentary Studies has caused concern among the ...Photographer turns lens on himself for survival story
John Kaplan was scared. He’d been diagnosed with not one but two types of lymphoma, and chemotherapy had begun to ravage his ...Working with Bill
In the beginning, there was CBS Reports. Then came Bill Moyers. It was 1976. Executive Producer Howard Stringer wanted to show the world that ...David Fanning’s Loper Lecture, 2009
David Fanning, the founding executive producer of PBS’s Frontline series, gave this talk in 2009 as the annual James L. Loper Lecture in ...Plant interferes with program funding, though just for 8 years
A haze of assumptions hung over the film. “Nobody would go near the show,” Schwarz says. “This was the height of the ...Why fund a whole doc?
Few docs as substantial as The Principal Story, which airs on P.O.V. Sept. 15, are funded in full by a single angel, but this one ...Prenups: precautions for prudent producers
Too many couples were splitting up before the offspring came along. Or they lived together grumpily, keenly aware they shouldn’t have had ...When the producer’s take diverges from the reporter’s
Following a very public dustup, Frontline and correspondent T.R. Reid have parted ways. The split leaves series producers and freelance on-air correspondents examining ...Rich and rare: docs that unfold over decades
If you stand quite rightly in awe at Michael Apted’s 49 Up, which aired on P.O.V. [in October 2007], you’re likely to be cheered by ...Once the feisty advocate for indies, AIVF fades to black
The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, a 30-year-old group that coordinated activism and provided networking and training for independent filmmakers, shuttered ...It’s OK: Despite son’s disability, laughter is allowed in this film
The title character of The Teachings of Jon is a middle-aged North Carolina man with Down syndrome who has an IQ of 20, can’t ...Doc-makers get specific about copyright fair use
Friday afternoon, things changed for producers who need to use somebody else’s footage and music in their documentaries. Clearing rights may still ...Appalachia: 3 video profiles in full relief
Thoughts of Appalachia may stir up visions of either hillbilly backwoods or quaint Edens, but both miss the complicated truth illuminated by ...
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