In this book, I encourage new and veteran filmmakers to make artistically rewarding documentaries at a fraction of the runaway costs of making these films today. The book helps you learn the skills to take creative risks, to find your authorial voice, and to spend less time making each film so you can make more films. This book emboldens you to pursue documentary filmmaking for the joy of it.
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Docs in Review
Taming the Garden
Taming the Garden Director/ Salomé Jashi Watched on MUBI Rating 2.5/5 What does a filmmaker owe their audience? Do they owe them the answers to the basic questions, the who-what-why-where-how? No, of course not. [...]
The Shape of Things to Come
The Shape of Things to Come Director/ Lisa Malloy, J.P. Sniadecki Watched on MUBI Rating 4/5 Whenever I ask my adult son the question “How are things going?” he likes to answer with a [...]
Everything For All Reasons
Everything For All Reasons Director/Scott Ballew Watched on Amazon Rating 4/5 I'm not going to make the case that there is anything stylistically unique about this documentary profile of grizzled singer-songwriter Terry Allen. It [...]