Easy guide to production
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) The vast majority of the film industry is male, and that goes from the lowliest PA to top executives. There are examples of women in every role in film production, but that tends to be the exception and not the rule. I know a few talented and hardworking women … [Read more...]
Did the NSA have foreknowledge that Citizenfour was going to win the Oscar for Best Documentary? Um, probably ... By Kimberly Gadette (doddleNEWS) Edward Snowden's whistleblowing actions about the mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy undertaken by the National Security Agency … [Read more...]
2K Camera Uses Same Sensor as Alexa By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Footage from the $40,000 ARRI AMIRA has been leaked on the Internet, and I have to say the quality is most impressive. The lower budget cousin of the 3.4K ALEXA XT Plus (which can up res to 4K) offers less resolution, but … [Read more...]
Will cease operations by the end of the month By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Subsequent to the release of Life after Pi, the documentary that chronicles the collapse of Rhythm & Hues and the visual effects industry, noted New York effects house Rhinoceros Visual Design and Effects LLC (aka … [Read more...]
Life After Pi details the events behind Rhythm & Hues' bankruptcy and FX crisis By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) With the sudden bankruptcy of the visual effects giant Rhythm & Hues, the visual effects industry was exposed as on the one hand delivering Oscar caliber work that was in high … [Read more...]
Ergonomic Documentary Camera Makes Debut at Irish Digital Conference By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) ARRI showed off its new AMIRA documentary camera at the Dublin Digital Biscuit conference in Ireland this week, and it made sure everyone knew that this lighter, smaller, faster and cheaper sister … [Read more...]
By Mark Hodge (doddleNEWS) Calvin and Hobbes is one of America's best loved comics. Its iconic status, coupled with creator Bill Watterson's reclusive persona, make it the perfect subject for a documentary. Unsurprisingly then, when filmmaker Joel Allen Schroeder started a Kickstarter … [Read more...]
Super 35 AMIRA Designed for on-the-go shooting By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Arriflex looks to be going after the documentary market with a new camera announcement at IBC 2013. The ARRI AMIRA uses the same Super 35 sensor as the flagship ALEXA, but in a more compact form factor that should … [Read more...]
By Chris Michaud (Reuters) Barred from competing in the 1936 Olympics, Marty Glickman, the Jewish kid from the Bronx who could run faster than anyone in the neighborhood went on to forge a career as a pioneering sportscaster who was the voice of two pro franchises, but never forgot his roots. "I … [Read more...]
By Christina Kotlar (doddleNEWS) While the closing weekend is upon the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, additional screenings for films that are being talked about filled the venues and worth the buzz that elevate media attention. The Crash Reel by director Lucy Walker is a … [Read more...]
By Jeremiah Hall (doddleNEWS) This will happen to you as a reporter, videographer or a one-man-band: someone will want to talk but not have their face on television. How do you handle the request, and how do you do it? First Things First Why? Why does the subject not want to appear on … [Read more...]
By Christina Kotlar (doddleNEWS) The 10th annual AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival is set for June 18-24 in and around downtown Silver Spring, Maryland at the AFI Silver Theater, one of the last surviving art deco theaters in the country and a top art house cinema in the … [Read more...]
By Kimberly Gadette (doddleNEWS) Mansome is a mullet. Neither long hair nor short; neither here nor there. This Morgan Spurlock documentary about modern masculine grooming habits is neither all-out funny nor seriously thought-provoking. To mangle that famous quote by Gertrude Stein: There is no … [Read more...]
By Kimberly Gadette (doddleNEWS) Bully examines five victims of peer abuse. Unfortunately, we'll only be able to meet three of them ... because the other two children are dead. While we learn very few facts and statistics in this searing, cinéma vérité rendering of adolescent mistreatment, … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Gone are the days when filmmakers had only theaters, TV, cable and even video rental as distribution channels for their projects. With new avenues like digital downloads, video on demand, and even live streaming, filmmakers have a vast array of new options to place in … [Read more...]
By Nancy Johnston (doddleNEWS) We’ve been here for three days and have reached maximum Sundance dishevel. When we first got here on Monday, as a first timer at Sundance, I was intrigued that many festival-goers walking up and down Main Street looked like they hadn’t gotten any sleep … [Read more...]
