Getting Personal with Doug Block
Doug Block, jan rofekampReflections and hard-earned advice on making personal documentaries, first-person storytelling and producing for film.
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Missing Out On All The Joy
photo credit: Todd Heisler, NY Times
I should have known I was tempting fate.
A week ago Saturday, Marjorie and I were in Washington, DC for the great DC/DOX Film Festival, but watching a film that night was the last thing on our minds....
Most Docs Will (Likely) Not Get Seen!
I’ve been meaning to host occasional guest posts ever since I started my Substack. Well, here I am, almost a year into it, and this is the first one. I guess I figured the universe would conspire and an opportunity would present itself when...
Thoughts On the Future of the Feature Documentary
Whenever I’m preparing to give a talk at an industry event, it gives me cause to think. Which is good. There’s so much about the state of the film industry right now (let’s not even mention this godforsaken world!) that makes me want to cra...
Getting Personal with Judd Apatow
It was among the most amusing openings to an email I’ve ever received.
Doug,
I am a director and writer. I made the films Knocked Up and The Forty Year Old Virgin.
As if I don’t know who Judd Apatow was.
He explained that he’d los...
What Happened When I Decided To Interview My Parents On Camera
I never set out to make a documentary about my parents’ marriage. I mean, who in their right mind wants to go there?
In the beginning, I just wanted to hear the war stories.
It was Memorial Day of 1995, and I was reading the usual tribut...
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I'm a documentary filmmaker, story consultant, photographer, and founder and co-host of The D-Word. My latest personal doc: BETTY & HENRI (& ME).
40 year- veteran doc sales...
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