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86 – Influential Documentaries to My Doc Life

• August 17, 2018
• Tagged as: alison wright, apocalypse now, arthur agee, burden of dreams, christian frei, doc film, doc filmmaker, doc filmmaking, documentary, documentary film, documentary filmmaker, eleanor coppola, entertainment law, entertainment lawyer, francis ford coppola, gordon firemark, hearts of darkness, hoop dreams, influential docs, influential documentaries, inspirational docs, inspirational documentaries, james nachtwey, kevin macdonald, klaus kinski, les blank, steve james, touching the voide, war journ, war photographer, werner herzog

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…

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5 Reasons to Make an iPhone Documentary

• July 16, 2018
• Tagged as: android filmmaking, anna brees, brees media, doc film, doc filmmaking, doc films, documentary, documentary film, documentary filmmaking, filmic pro, filmmaking, how to make a documentary, ios film, ios filmmaking, iphone, iphone filmmaking, mobile filmmaking, mobile journalism, mojo fest, moment, moment lens, moment lenses

5 Reasons to Make an iPhone Documentary More and more documentary filmmakers are joining the growing ranks of mobile filmmakers and picking up their iPhones to shoot their next doc.  Back in December, we first…

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80 – Hacking the Documentary Film Festival, Part One

• June 29, 2018
• Tagged as: cannes, costa botes, documentary, documentary film, documentary film festival, film festival, film festivals, leon vitali, lyndon stone, mdff, melbourne, melbourne australia, melbourne documentary film festival, stanley kubrick, tony zierra

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…

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77 – Mobile Filmmaking Special Pt 2, with FiLMic Pro’s, Neill Barham

• June 8, 2018
• Tagged as: cell phone filmmaking, cinegenix, doc filmmaking, documentary, documentary film, documentary filmmaking, documentary films, filmic pro, galway, ios filmmaking, low light cinematography, memory mic, mobile filmmaking, mojofest, NAB 2018, neill barnham, philip bloom, phone filmmaking, richard lackey, sennheiser

Mobile Filmmaking Special, Pt 2 In part two of our special on mobile filmmaking for the doc filmmaker, we decided to go right to the source: FiLMic Pro‘s, CEO & found, Neill Barham.  And he…

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75 – Talking the Doc Life with My Doc Wife

• May 25, 2018
• Tagged as: cambodia, chris parkhurst, diy documentary, diy filmmaking, doc filmmaking, doc films, documentary, documentary film, documentary filmmaking, how to make a documentary film, living a doc life, malaysia, my doc life, stephanie vincenti, the doc life, the documentary life

Talking the Doc Life with My Doc Wife I figured since I’m always on here prattling on about my doc life, it might be different to talk about – or actually, with! – my doc…

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74 – Archival Storytelling For Your Documentary with Tom Jennings

• May 18, 2018
• Tagged as: 1895 Films, archival, archival footage, doc films, documentary film, documentary films, documentary storytelling, emmy award, filmmaking, focal international, footage, found footage, independent filmmaking, journalism, media, national archives, peabody, print journalism, print media, storytelling, tom jennings

Archival Storytelling For Your Documentary Through his production company, 1895 Films, Tom Jennings has become known for his fresh and inventive approach to using archival footage to tell a story.  With both Peabody and Emmy…

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73 – Making Great Sound for Your Documentary with Jean Umansky

• May 11, 2018
• Tagged as: boom mic, boom pole, diy doc filmmaking, diy documentary, doc filmmaking, documentary film, documentary sound, film sound, jean umansky, joris ivens, lav, lavalier, lavalier mic, recordist, shock mount, shotgun, shotgun mic, sound, sound department, sound dept, sound editing, sound editor, sound engineer, sound kit, sound man, sound person, sound recordist, sound woman

Making Great Sound for Your Documentary Film Jean Umansky is one of the most respected sound persons in the field of filmmaking. He is a French sound engineer who has worked on over 50+ narrative…

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72 – Direct Distribution for Your Documentary with Christopher Rufo

• May 4, 2018
• Tagged as: christopher rufo, diamond in the dunes, direct distribution, distribution, diy distribution, doc filmmaker, doc filmmaking, docland, documentary film, documentary filmmaker, film distribution, filmmaker mba, filmmakermba, how to distribute your documentary film, how to distribute your film, journey to kathmandu, mongolia, pbs, roughing it, roughing it mongolia

Direct Distribution for Your Documentary Film The topic of film distribution is, perhaps, one of the most requested topics that we’ve ever had for the podcast. And it’s no wonder. While there may seem like…

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71 – Making a Netflix Docuseries with Flint Town Producer, Gary Kout

• April 27, 2018
• Tagged as: doc filmmaking, documentary, documentary film, docuseries, flint town, long form, long form documentary, netflix, storytelling

Making a Netflix Docuseries with Flint Town’s, Gary Town These are pretty amazing times for documentary filmmakers. Not only have the popularity of documentary films increased exponentially, not only are there far more resources available…

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70 – Crowdfunding for Your Documentary with Seed & Spark’s, Emily Best

• April 20, 2018
• Tagged as: crowdfund, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, diy documentary, doc filmmaking, documentary, documentary film, documentary filmmaking, emily best, indiegogo, kickstarter, raise funds for your film, seed & spark, seed and spark

Crowdfunding for Your Doc with Seed & Spark’s, Emily Best Crowdfunding, nowadays, is one of the most common funding options out there for the documentary filmmaker.  However, the crowdfunding playing field has evolved considerably since…