Filmmaking Articles and Advice from Film Consultant Peter D. Marshall
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking on Aug 17th, 2010
This article was written by Amy R. Handler. “When Sean Dunne uploaded his short documentary The Archive to Vimeo, he had no idea he’d become an overnight cult sensation. Still it happened, a mind-blowing, life changing explosion—proving once again, that dreams really can come true in the 21st century. In the following interview, the 29-year-old [...]
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking on Jun 1st, 2010
This article was written for Power to the People. “I’d like to talk about such a promising home amusement as documentary films. In fact it’s rather a specific kind of entertainment. It’s known that documentaries are considered to be somewhat “serious” entertainment so some people even refuse to associate documentaries with entertainment at all. But [...]
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking on Apr 19th, 2010
This article was written by Edward J Delaney. When Ester Brym decided to make her first documentary, she decided to do it on the subject of YouTube, and when she finished it, she decided to distribute it on YouTube – but not for free. “Butterflies,” which focuses on some YouTube stars who have built fame [...]
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking on Oct 7th, 2009
“For renowned movie director and critic Thom Anderson, documentary films are the most powerful medium revealing the lives and cultures of other people. Anderson, the head judge of the EBS International Documentary Festival (EIDF), says he enjoys watching and making documentaries because of their very nature. There was a certain period when people didn’t like [...]
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking on Oct 1st, 2009
“A new report issued by American University’s Center for Social Media finds that documentary filmmakers routinely grapple with ethics challenges, yet the craft lacks any sort of broad standards in ethics practices. The Center for Social Media is noted for its codes of best practices in fair use, the most longstanding of which is the [...]
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking on Aug 24th, 2009
“Celebrated Singaporean filmmaker Siok Siok Tan began work several months ago on a “Twittamentary” about the popular micro-blogging service, Twitter and the idea is soon to come to life. Twittamentary is live now. If you wonder what it is all about, it is about how Twitter has changed someone’s life. If you have a story [...]
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking on Aug 13th, 2009
“Documentary films, the traditional kind that the average person simply ignores, have long since given way to the popular faux documentary. These films, unlike their parent genre, have been and continue to be wildly successful. In fact, they are now so tightly woven into our culture that we truly forget what they are. Christopher Guest’s [...]
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking on Jul 13th, 2009
“Rich, successful Latino-American lawyer takes on a big corporation on behalf of downtrodden, third-world workers and wins. It makes for a great “David versus Goliath” story of melodramatic Erin Brockovich proportions — but what if the David of the story ends up being accused of fraud, causing not only that case but others to be [...]
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking on May 20th, 2009
Read this article from CMD Media. “First Person Arts is going across to the nation to find the best videos, photographs and stories that describe how individuals, families, and communities are managing during these hard times. The contest, First Person America: In These Hard Times, invites artists and everyday people to document how this generation [...]
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking on May 13th, 2009
Read this article from Ron Steinman. “I start shooting a new documentary in May. The subject is mental health, but this essay is not about that film as a film but how I still will make films in what I call “the old-fashioned way.” The way I know best. By film I mean any motion [...]
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