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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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...
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...
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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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