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.
“Smart, to the point and full of important info. It will be helpful for all kinds of filmmakers – those starting out or those wanting to change their practice. A great book.”
Debra Zimmerman, Executive Director, Women Make Movies
Docs in Review
Doc Filmmaking During a Pandemic: Go Small, Go Lean
Nina Davenport filming Hello Photo (1994) The Pandemic Future: Time for a Radical Return to Documentary's First Golden Age I recently wrote a book with a title that is now comically ironic. Get Close: Lean [...]
Collective
Collective Director/ Alexander Nanau Watched on Amazon Rating 3.5/5 If you happen to watch the trailer of Collective before watching the film, you’ll think you’re in store for a breathless political thriller with nothing [...]
Time
Time Director/ Garrett Bradley Watched on Amazon Rating 3.5/5 Fragments of home video shot over the past twenty years are interspersed throughout this fractured chronicle of a woman named Fox Rich and her relentless [...]