Reflections and hard-earned advice on making personal documentaries, first-person storytelling and producing for film.
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The Art of (Not) Getting Funding For Your Doc
Every filmmaker I know has been saying that it’s harder to get funding these days than ever, and it’s true.1 Part of me has to smile, though. I’ve been making films for almost 40 years and funding has always been hard. Yet somehow, by hook...
Pardon This Interruption
Tuesday morning I was hard at work putting the finishing touches on an epic Substack post when Lucy texted us that her water broke, three weeks before her due date!
Some impatient little bugger just couldn’t wait to see her new family.
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I swore I wasn’t going to write you this week.
Last week, on the occasion of my one-year anniversary on Substack, I patted myself on the back for keeping to a schedule of cranking out weekly posts the entire past year. Over fifty posts in...
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I'm a documentary filmmaker, consultant, writer and founder/co-host of The D-Word. My latest personal doc: THE SEARCH FOR BETTY & HENRI.
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