Getting Personal with Doug Block
Doug BlockReflections and hard-earned advice on making personal documentaries, first-person storytelling and producing for film.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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A Film R/Evolution is Coming!
It all started with an email.
“I worry about the viability of documentary filmmakers,” it began, “with all their stories and their insistence on filmmaking as their exclusive mode.”
This was June of last year, and the email came from my l...
A Reminder To My Paid Subscribers
You can Ask Me Anything tomorrow
In case you didn’t read my weekly Substack post on Wednesday, just a brief reminder that I’ll be hosting an Ask Me Anything meeting on Zoom tomorrow from 12 noon to 1pm EST. No need to rsvp or pre-register....
Once Again You Can Ask Me Anything
A while back I wrote that I would conclude every Substack post with a landscape snapshot of mine, but I’ve pretty much dropped the ball. I’ll try to be better. There’s so much darkness in the world these days, we all need the occasional rem...
Preparing to Make Your Personal Doc
Over the past 35 years, I’ve made four personal documentaries of my own, produced a half dozen more and consulted on countless others. So, I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time dwelling on the unique challenges of the genre, and helping a...
My Path to Becoming a Personal Documentary Filmmaker
In my never-ending quest to ~~warn~~ inform my loyal readers about the unique challenges of the personal documentary form, I thought I’d take a trip down memory lane and lay out how I became a personal doc filmmaker in the first place. Beca...
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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).
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