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Which Genre Gave the Highest Return on Investment in the Past Decade? The...
Recently Catherine Rampell of the New York Times published a chart that should make documentary and horror producers smile. Horror has long been known as a cash cow for Hollywood, but documentary is...
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DSLRs and DIY Distribution: Behind the Scenes on the Doc Success Story 'Doin'...
Doin' It In the Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC is an unabashed success story for first-time feature directors Bobbito García and Kevin Couliau, who filmed basketball on 180 courts across New York...
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10 Netflix Instant Picks About Filmmaking to Devour This Holiday Season
As November comes to a close, the holiday season is officially upon us. Alongside the decadent meals and retail shopping absurdity, most of us have a few extra days off to lounge around in our pajamas...
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'Medora' Co-Director Andrew Cohn on Lessons Learned from a Winless Basketball...
Directors Andrew Cohn and Davy Rothbart have just released Medora, a documentary about a winless high school basketball team from a small town in Indiana. The filmmakers moved to the town for 9 months...
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A (Nearly) Complete History of the Greatest Movie Ever Made, Orson Welles'...
Citizen Kane: the #1 favorite film of 100% of freshman film school students and young lovers of cinema. (Remember Michael Scott's nephew, Luke? Case in point.) Though the title of "greatest movie ever"...
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What I Learned After Conducting 40+ Interviews for My First Feature Documentary
You've got a great idea for film, and it just so happens to be a true story. Best of all, the main character is fantastic and you can't wait to get him or her on camera! But once you start rolling,...
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Want $100K for Your Next Doc? Enter the World Exploration Challenge & Trek...
If you've imagined traveling to a remote area to, say, document a rare mountain creature or take a selfie on rappel into an active volcano, then you might consider the The Foundation Mamont - Explorers...
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New Docurama App for Documentary Lovers Streams Docs to You for Free
Where do you watch documentaries? Docs aren't big-ticket sellers in the movie theater. Traditionally, TV broadcast is the platform of most exposure, but for those of us who stream a majority of our...
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An Ode to The Bev: One Director's Love Letter to 35mm & Revival Cinemas
We all have that local art house or revival house cinema that reminds us of the magic of moviemaking. However, we haven't all gone out and made an awesome documentary about it. Filmmaker Julia Marchese...
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Can Growing Your Fanbase Help You Gain More Freedom In Filmmaking?
Ondi Timoner is the only filmmaker to have won two Sundance Grand Jury prizes for documentary; her award-winning film, We Live In Public focused on the life of dot-com entrepreneur Josh Harris and our...
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3 Hours of New Video Essays on the Films and Career of Stanley Kubrick
Now, if there's one thing in the world I am down with, it's Stanley Kubrick. (That link goes to just one of the literally 9,000 posts I've done for No Film School on the filmmaker, Bronx native, and...
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The Romance of Discovery: Honoring Documentary Legend Albert Maysles
Documentary lovers and the rest of the cinematic world are feeling the loss of Albert Maysles, who passed away on Thursday at the age of 88. Maysles and his brother David formed the filmmaking team...
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3 Rules for Making a More Cinematic Documentary from 'Purgatorio' Director...
Trying to make a cinematic experience out of shooting subjects and locations on the fly can be very challenging. But if you set rules for yourself and follow them, you can be on your way to making a...
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Veteran Editor David Teague on How to Build Characters Through Editing
"Editing is messing up over and over until you get it right." In his Editing Master Class on Building Characters, presented by G-Technology, veteran editor David Teague described his techniques for...
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5 Hitchcock Techniques You Might Want to Be Using in Your Films
Your audience isn’t obligated to watch your film! So before you finalize that script, shot list, or edit, do everything you can to make it easy for them to keep watching. It’s common for beginners to...
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Who, Where, & How Much? A Breakdown of the 15 Films that Made the Oscars' Doc...
What does it take to make the Oscars Feature Documentary Shortlist? At least three things: a top-tier festival premiere, a theatrical run, and a great movie. Oh, that’s all?! It's a winding road,...
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Watch Stanley Kubrick's First Short Film 'Day of the Fight'
It's always instructive to see the early works of a director, and when that director is Stanley Kubrick, it's practically required viewing for all students of cinema. His first short, the 12-minute...
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You Can Now Watch the World's First Near-Infrared Feature—and it's Breathtaking
The new documentary Brindabellas takes near-infrared photography to new places. Infrared photography has been part of cinematic storytelling for a long time, from the jungle sequences in SOY CUBA, to...
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'I Am Not Your Negro': Raoul Peck Braved New Forms for His Oscar-Nominated Doc
"I didn't know any existing documentary that had the form I finally used." Raoul Peck is a name most moviegoers will not likely have heard before last year, though he has made several films. When he...
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'DRIB': What Happens When Reality and Fiction Collide? [PODCAST]
There is no recipe for making a successful doc/fiction hybrid. In fact, it may be better to throw away any rules at all. The docu-fiction hybrid genre isn't necessarily a new thing. In fact, there are...
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