Penny Lane Is My Real Name
Penny Lane, Gary Hustwit, Matt Wolf, Marcie Hume, 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 | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 36 | Founded | 7 months ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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Murder, Murder, Murder
I used to have a desk right next to an editor — they were on the other side of a thin wall, because this is New York City — who was editing a true crime series.
One day, the editor was working on a sequence where someone says the phrase,...
In defense of talking heads
Everyone derides the “talking head.” But a great interview is one of documentary’s most cinematic tools. Here is everything I know about how to create great interviews.
Interviews get a bad rap in documentary.
Tool Time [Penny Lane version]
Last week, I wrote something that felt vaguely illegal to admit in public as a documentary filmmaker: I’m not especially interested in The Camera.
Not because it is unimportant!!! The camera is, obviously, a pretty major part of Making Do...
What a Documentary Director Actually Does
“So, if you didn’t actually film the film, why are you calling yourself a director? Aren’t you just, like, an editor?”
This was one of the first audience questions I ever got about Our Nixon, and I’ve thought about it many times over the...
Is This The End of Reality TV?
The Bachelorette Season 22 feels like a metonym for the whole of reality TV, as if TikTok herself has come to deliver the killing blow.
“[Y]ou should be using your journalistic perch to advocate a heroic, even monastic disengagement from t...
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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.
A filmmaker in New York
I’m a documentary filmmaker and immersive experience designer following human behavior to its most revealing edges. I make films and quiet, off-the-record magic that rearranges reality.
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