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Identifying Your Documentary’s Signature Style
Karen Everett
Sep 20, 2011Developing a style that sets your film apart is key to capturing audience attention in nonfiction.
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september 22 2011
Identifying Your Documentary’s Signature Style
Karen Everett
Sep 20, 2011Developing a style that sets your film apart is key to capturing audience attention in nonfiction.
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Story Structure
Identifying Your Documentary’s Signature Style
Karen Everett
Sep 20, 2011Developing a style that sets your film apart is key to capturing audience attention in nonfiction.
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February 17, 2011
Stone Tour Cultivates the City
Susan Gerhard
Feb 14, 2011Film professor and farmer Melinda Stone tours San Francisco community centers with film and food for thought.
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Stone Tour Cultivates the City
Susan Gerhard
Feb 14, 2011Film professor and farmer Melinda Stone tours San Francisco community centers with film and food for thought.
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Stone Tour Cultivates the City
Susan Gerhard
Feb 14, 2011Film professor and farmer Melinda Stone tours San Francisco community centers with film and food for thought.
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Feb 3 2011
How to Fix Your Documentary's Structural Problems, Part Two
Karen Everett
Feb 1, 2011An expert offers advice on solving the issues rough-cut screenings raise.
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How to Fix Your Documentary's Structural Problems, Part Two
Karen Everett
Feb 1, 2011An expert offers advice on solving the issues rough-cut screenings raise.
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Story Structure
How to Fix Your Documentary's Structural Problems, Part Two
Karen Everett
Feb 1, 2011An expert offers advice on solving the issues rough-cut screenings raise.
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Feb 3 2011
Sundance Awards 'Circumstance,' 'Another Happy Day'
Susan Gerhard
Jan 30, 2011Ten days of audience voting and jury contemplation lead to a barrel of awards for directors, writers.
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Sundance Awards 'Circumstance,' 'Another Happy Day'
Susan Gerhard
Jan 30, 2011Ten days of audience voting and jury contemplation lead to a barrel of awards for directors, writers.
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January 31, 2011
Sundance Awards 'Circumstance,' 'Another Happy Day'
Susan Gerhard
Jan 30, 2011Ten days of audience voting and jury contemplation lead to a barrel of awards for directors, writers.
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News & Blogs
Sundance Awards 'Circumstance,' 'Another Happy Day'
Susan Gerhard
Jan 30, 2011Ten days of audience voting and jury contemplation lead to a barrel of awards for directors, writers.
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How to Fix Your Documentary's Structural Problems, Part One
Karen Everett
Jan 4, 2011Rough-cut screenings can help you identify problems areas of your film—if you know how to listen.
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January 6, 2010
How to Fix Your Documentary's Structural Problems, Part One
Karen Everett
Jan 4, 2011Rough-cut screenings can help you identify problems areas of your film—if you know how to listen.
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Story Structure
How to Fix Your Documentary's Structural Problems, Part One
Karen Everett
Jan 4, 2011Rough-cut screenings can help you identify problems areas of your film—if you know how to listen.
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December 9, 2010
Stanford's MFA Doc Program Teaches Cardinal Rules, and How to Break Them
Sara Dosa
Dec 9, 2010A night with Stanford’s Doc Film MFAs offers insight into a storied program.
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Stanford's MFA Doc Program Teaches Cardinal Rules, and How to Break Them
Sara Dosa
Dec 9, 2010A night with Stanford’s Doc Film MFAs offers insight into a storied program.
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Stanford's MFA Doc Program Teaches Cardinal Rules, and How to Break Them
Sara Dosa
Dec 9, 2010A night with Stanford’s Doc Film MFAs offers insight into a storied program.
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Documentary
Are You Expecting Your Producer to Save You?
Fernanda Rossi
Oct 12, 2010What to consider when you're considering hiring a producer.
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Are You Expecting Your Producer to Save You?
Fernanda Rossi
Oct 12, 2010What to consider when you're considering hiring a producer.
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October 14, 2010
Are You Expecting Your Producer to Save You?
Fernanda Rossi
Oct 12, 2010What to consider when you're considering hiring a producer.
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August 26 ,2010
Getting Perspective on your Story
Fernanda Rossi
Aug 24, 2010Who's to say if it's a story problem or an audience problem?
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Documentary
Getting Perspective on your Story
Fernanda Rossi
Aug 24, 2010Who's to say if it's a story problem or an audience problem?
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Getting Perspective on your Story
Fernanda Rossi
Aug 24, 2010Who's to say if it's a story problem or an audience problem?
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08-12-10
Overcoming Your Fear of Fundraising
Holly Million
Aug 10, 2010A few simple ideas can help nervous fundraisers take the leap.
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Funding
Overcoming Your Fear of Fundraising
Holly Million
Aug 10, 2010A few simple ideas can help nervous fundraisers take the leap.
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08-05-2010
Media Pulse: The Closed Net Threat
Sara Dosa
Aug 4, 2010The looming prospect of a two-tiered internet may compromise the ability of independent filmmakers to fund, exhibit and distribute their films.
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Media Pulse: The Closed Net Threat
Sara Dosa
Aug 4, 2010The looming prospect of a two-tiered internet may compromise the ability of independent filmmakers to fund, exhibit and distribute their films.
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In Depth
Media Pulse: The Closed Net Threat
Sara Dosa
Aug 4, 2010The looming prospect of a two-tiered internet may compromise the ability of independent filmmakers to fund, exhibit and distribute their films.
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Q & A
Behind the Music with 'Simonal'
Julia Barbosa
May 3, 2010The documentary Simonal: No One Knows How Tough it Was explores the polemic surrounding a man considered by many to be the greatest singer in Brazilian history.
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Funding
Do Ask, Do Tell
Holly Million
Mar 1, 2010I've asked people for all kinds of money for all kinds of reasons. Whether I'm asking for $1,000 or $100,000, I've found some key concepts rule.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Natalie Mulford
Hilary Hart
Jan 27, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Documentary
The Upside of Downtime
Fernanda Rossi
Nov 24, 2009Ask the Documentary Doctor: The Doc examines patience in filmmaking.
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Funding
How to Entice and Reward Potential Donors
Holly Million
Nov 10, 2009Here are a few ways to both entice and reward your donors, as well as some tips for thanking them when all's said and done.
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Legal
A Challenge to Filmmakers
George Rush
Nov 3, 2009George Rush skips legal concerns and instead speaks to a larger issue: the lack of quality independent filmmaking today.
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Digital
Free and Open: Video's Cambrian Explosion
Hannah Eaves
Jul 27, 2009The Sixth Screen: Veteran journalists and filmmakers alike are polishing up their resumes, contemplating the hospitality industry, and wondering: Who stole my career?
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Funding
Are Your "Friends" Worthless?
Holly Million
Jul 13, 2009Fear-Free Fundraising: Are Your "Friends" Worthless?
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Story Structure
Story Structures that Funders Love
Karen Everett
Jun 29, 2009The Edit Room: I decided to set my New Doc Editing research team on a mission to find out what structural models are getting funded these days.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Jim Granato's "D tour"
Dan Cowles
Apr 19, 2009Local filmmaker Jim Granato, whose movie D tour follows the band Rogue Wave and its ailing drummer Pat Spurgeon, on tour and on dialysis, is competing for the San Francisco International Film Festival's Golden Gate Award in Documentary.
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Story Structure
How to Rate Your Doc's Story Potential
Karen Everett
Mar 24, 2009A mini-tutorial on story structure: in a character-driven documentary there are a few simple questions you have to answer in order to vet your story potential.
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Festivals
The 28th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Lynn Rapoport
Jul 23, 2008The 60th birthday of Israel is recognized in the festival via a slew of films examining the country from various perspectives, films that fight over how to tell the story.
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News & Blogs
Mister Jalopy's Urban Guerrilla Movie House
Erika Young
Oct 31, 2007Make: magazine gives tons of fascinating advice on how to do everything from turn two lengths of sewer pipe into a lens focuser to the proper way to mount a heat shield.
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Q & A
Michael Arndt, Little Mr. Sunshine
Michael Guillen
Feb 23, 2007The Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Little Miss Sunshine made a Cody's San Francisco bookstore appearance promoting the publication of the shooting script.
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Festivals
A Cinequest 35
Susan Gerhard
Nov 17, 2006Cinequest announces a plan to distribute indie films via DVD, the Internet, TV, and some traditional theatrical sales.
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Festivals
Netflix Rolling Roadshow: Return to Alcatraz
Jennifer Young
Aug 30, 2006Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Cinema touring program brings classics to the locations they made famous, with a mobile outdoor projection unit and inflatable screen.
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Q & A
One Screen, Three San Francisco Cinephiles
Johnny Ray Huston
May 15, 2006Christian Bruno, Julie Lindow and R.A. McBride discuss their love of San Francisco and its theaters over beers at the Uptown.
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Festivals
San Francisco International Film Festival, Week Two
Cheryl Eddy
May 1, 2006The second week of the 49th SFIFF was packed with tributes and special events, luring diverse crowds with honorees like Werner Herzog and Ed Harris.
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