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91 – Doc Filmmakers Getting Real, with Claire Aguilar

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91 – Doc Filmmakers Getting Real, with Claire Aguilar

Doc Filmmakers Getting Real, with Claire Aguilar Getting Real is a biennial conference put on by International Documentary Association (IDA) to foster three days of documentary media discussion, with documentary filmmaker’s sustainability at the core... Read More

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90 – 5 (More) Reasons to Make Your Documentary Film

5 (More) Reasons to Make Your Documentary Film If you are like so many of us doc filmmakers, there have been numerous times where you have questioned or doubted whether or not you should or... Read More

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89 – Minding the Gap with Director, Bing Liu

Minding the Gap with Director, Bing Liu Every once in awhile a young filmmaker comes out of nowhere and takes the doc world by storm. And this year that name seems to be Bing Liu.... Read More

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88 – 5 Tips for Your Film Festival Strategy

5 Tips for Your Film Festival Strategy Last week, #doclifer Josh Davidsburg took advantage of the TDL Hotline and left a message with us asking about advice for a film festival strategy. Not only did we... Read More

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87 – Learning to Breath with Documentary Photography with Alison Wright

Learning to Breath with Documentary Photography with Alison Wright Alison Wright has been traveling and working in 150 countries and doing documentary photography for 35+ years. She is one of the single most impressive human... Read More

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86 – Influential Documentaries to My Doc Life

Influential Documentaries to My Doc Life As a doc filmmaker, how many times have you been asked what your favorite documentary film is? If you’re anything like me, it’s a nearly impossible and futile question... Read More

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85 – Talking Directing and Development with Three Identical Strangers director, Tim Wardle

Talking Directing and Development with Three Identical Strangers director, Tim Wardle One of the biggest documentary hits of the summer has been Tim Wardles’ Three Identical Strangers, a film that follows the incredible true story of... Read More

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84 – Staying Connected as a Documentary Filmmaking

Staying Connected as a Documentary Filmmaking Last week we attended Podcast Movement 2018 in Philadelphia, USA. It was a great refresher for us – even an eye opener on some levels – in terms of... Read More

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83 – My (Rather Candid) Conversation with Brexitannia Director, Timothy George Kelly

Conversation with Brexitannia Director, Timothy George Kelly There is something – many things, really – that can be said about having a conversation with Timothy George Kelly (dir., Brexitannia) on the current state of documentary film... Read More

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82 – Maximizing Your Doc Life with Pedram Shojai, OMD

Maximizing Your Doc Life with Pedram Shojai, OMD Pedram Shojai has been embodying the doc life now for years. In fact, one might argue that he was doing so even before he was making documentaries,... Read More

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81 – Hacking the Documentary Film Festival, Part Two

Hacking the Documentary Film Festival, Part Two It’s that time again to turn our attention to breaking down the barriers of that ever-elusive filmmaking animal that we’ve all come to respect and love, but few... Read More

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80 – Hacking the Documentary Film Festival, Part One

Hacking the Documentary Film Festival, Part One It’s that time again to turn our attention to breaking down the barriers of that ever-elusive filmmaking animal that we’ve all come to respect and love, but few... Read More

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