Penny Lane Is My Real Name
Penny Lane, Gary Hustwit, Harrison Fishman, Dylan RedfordPenny Lane is My Real Name is a newsletter about making art and making a living in documentary film.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 46 | Founded | 10 months ago | Last Issue | 2 days ago |
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How to make a real person into a character
On casting, characterization, and the strange alchemy that makes audiences care about your documentary subjects. (And yes, more ethics.)
Hello friends!
The Work is the Reward
Back when it felt like winter would never end, I wrote several newsletters about gardening. I first wrote about gardening in winter, when there’s tons of work to do, but none of it is visible to others. The second one was about gardening in...
Why Documentaries Can Never Be Escapism (and Why That is Good Actually)
On the eve of releasing a documentary into theaters, I continue to ask, "Are Documentaries Movies?"
Once upon a time, in a land without trigger warnings, I used to start every documentary film class with a 16-minute short called No Lies (M...
What Is It Like To Be An Owl?
In 1974, the philosopher Thomas Nagel asked a famous question about consciousness: “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”
Nagel chose the bat because, as a fellow mammal, we readily accept that it possesses consciousness, in the sense that it is l...
Betting on Myself (Again)
Twice a year, I disappear for 10 days and try to come up with 10 new ideas for documentaries. Here's why I do it, and how you can too!
Hello friends and welcome new subscribers! If you are new here: this newsletter comes once a week on Sun...
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Making art and making a living in documentary film. I've directed 8 feature docs including LISTENING TO KENNY G, CONFESSIONS OF A GOOD SAMARITAN, HAIL SATAN?, NUTS! and OUR NIXON. I choose to LOL. I am also a sought-after consultant and educator.
The guitar-obsessed director of documentary films about design and other stuff.
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