March forward, docmakers! You have nothing to lose but your chains. March along your own path, on a wing and a prayer!
Keep ReadingWhether it comes to commissioning a composer to create a score for a film or paying high fees for the permission to use songs, for a lot of documentary filmmakers, music is
Keep ReadingI’ve finally hit my patience limit with the paperwork required by broadcasters and funding agencies to make a television documentary.
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Keep ReadingOne of the great pleasures of being at festivals is the opportunity to meet filmmakers. They can teach and inspire you.
Keep ReadingLaura Sky's non-profit SkyWorks Foundation has led to three decades of what she calls “wildly participatory” documentary filmmaking about society’s forgotten people.
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Keep ReadingIn his wittily titled The Tower of Babble, the CBC's Richard Stursberg has written a breezy, insightful and unabashedly self-serving business-bookcum-memoir of his tempestuous tenure.
Keep Reading"Ever since Bell Media announced its $3.38-billion purchase (subject to regulatory approval) of Astral Media, I’ve been worried," notes our policy columnist.
Keep ReadingPOV editor Marc Glassman and Kevin McMahon debate the latter's revolutionary suggestion that documentary is Canada's national art form.
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