December 2005

Kara Walker at REDCAT

marla — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0600

At the opening reception for Kara Walker’s multimedia project “Song of the South” at downtown LA’s REDCAT Gallery, the artist adopted the eerily detached voice of a little girl playing with her dolls. “Help us!

The Many Meanings of “Fair Use”

marla — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0600

So your documentary has commercial interest and high revenue earning potential.

Is documentary the new memoir?

RossiF — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0600

I am a sociologist who conducts historical research on race and social policy, so my work has something in common with a documentary filmmaker’s attempt to uncover some version of “the truth” (however defined).

Do I need a business plan?

RossiF — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0600

Dear Doc Doctor:
I’ve been asked for a business plan for my documentary. I thought those types of things were only for fiction films. Do I really need to write one?

The Anywhere Effect

marla — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0600

A couple of years ago, I decided to take a break from New York, and headed out to Tempe, Arizona for graduate school. I imagined I was moving to a quaint little college town perched along the edge of the Sonoran Desert, dotted with vernacular straw bail houses, maybe, or adobe ranches.

Docurama on the Rise

marla — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0600

At the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, Steve Savage and Susan Margolin, the two minds behind New Video, a New York-based entertainment marketing and sales company, watched as tickets for documentaries were snatched up left and right. They witnessed audiences line up to get into sold-out theaters. They saw documentary after documentary screen with standing room only.