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TDL Podcast #41 – How to Get Your First Documentary Grant + Documentary Filmmaker, Jennifer Brea

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TDL Podcast #41 – How to Get Your First Documentary Grant + Documentary Filmmaker, Jennifer Brea

Getting your first documentary grant can be akin to getting into your first documentary film festival. That is, it is often the first one that is the most difficult one to get. Getting that first... Read More

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TDL Podcast #40 – How to Shoot Great B-roll + Documentary Filmmaking Couple, Jonathan Lacocque & Clara Lehmann

One of the often overlooked elements to a documentary filmmaker’s footage is their B-roll. And the biggest reason that I have to make this assumption is the copious amounts of really really bad looking B-roll... Read More

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TDL Podcast #39 – Attending Live Documentary Events + Documentary Entertainment Law Conversation with Entertainment Lawyer, Gordon Firemark

As a documentary filmmaker, often the idea of having to wrangle talent releases, location releases, crew deal memos, music rights, all seems like a world that is not really ours. That’s for the feature film... Read More

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TDL Podcast #38 – 5 Reasons to Study Documentary Filmmaking + Conversation with Aussie Doc Filmmakers, Matthew Salleh & Rose Tucker

The idea that one must go to school for documentary filmmaking in order to become a good documentary filmmaker is a fairly hollow assumption. There are plenty great doc films made by people that never... Read More

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TDL Podcast #37 – The (Sometimes) Overlooked Importance of Film Score to Your Doc + Conversation with Film Music Composer, Peter Broderick

I would like to talk to you about Peter Broderick. No, not that Peter Broderick, the independent film distribution guru. But another Peter Broderick. Who makes music. Really really amazing music. The kind that when you... Read More

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TDL Podcast #36 – Workflow Tips for Your First Documentary + Conversation with Doc Filmmaker, Brian Kimmel

Over the past few months I’ve received a number of requests for a show dedicated to how one goes about making their first documentary film. And the truth is, I could probably spend the next... Read More

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Interview with Writer/Artist Jennifer Rabin or How to Resist Trump’s Defunding of NEA and NEH

Written as a Special to The Documentary Life Blog. Interview with writer, sculptor, arts curator, friend, founder of Artists Resist and Art Passport PDX, Jennifer Rabin. Now, we’ve known one another, what… 14 or 15…

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A Documentary About Cats, You Say?

About half-way through watching the documentary Kedi (aka Nine Lives: Cats in Istanbul), a sailor man in his late-40s, a citizen of this capital of Turkey, describes the city’s love for felines which goes back centuries,…

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Tony Robbins, Joe Berlinger, and I

This past week I attended the National Achievers Congress here in Portland, Oregon, USA. There were three sort of headliners for the show, including Gary Vaynerchuk, Robert Herjavec, but the main attraction (if you will)…

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Inspirational Words From Fellow #DocLifer!

Came across this today inside the front flap of the photo book, Carry Cambodia, and I wanted to share with all of you. It’s from fellow Lifer, Jack Metier, who gave me this lovely book…