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Have a passion for making documentary films? Want to learn how to best lead a documentary life? Join award-winning commercial and documentary filmmaker, Chris G. Parkhurst, and special indus...
Can you believe that it was over four years ago that we first began producing episodes of The Documentary Life ?? Well, neither can we. But...
Imagine stepping up to the podium to accept your award for Best Documentary Feature for the film that you have put your heart, soul, blood s...
In the past, documentary cinematography has been in the shadow of narrative feature's, overlooked because of certain, perhaps unfair assumpt...
It wasn't that long ago when reality television was a dirty word that incited some pretty strong feelings among the documentary filmmaking c...
Documentary filmmaking during this time of a pandemic is something that so many of us doc filmmakers are contemplating. Or doing. Or not doi...
Questions of race and who has the right to tell another person's or culture's or race's stories have recently been at the forefront of the d...
Lyndon Stone is the founder and festival director of Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Melody Gilbert is a documentary filmmaker well acq...
Mickey Lemle has made documentary films about some of the most brilliant individuals in the modern world. From His Holiness the 14th Dalai L...
Sasha Joseph Neulinger endured some of the most traumatic events a child can experience. He is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. And he...
Eric Becker has been taking on extreme challenges since he can remember. If it's not racing bikes it's climbing mountains. If it's not climb...
It's hard to refute the power and potential of the second biggest search engine in the world, YouTube. Especially for the independent doc fi...
Sports documentaries have really come into their own as a documentary genre. The truth is that the built-in drama and sometimes off-the-fiel...
When it comes to documentary film - and really film, in general - one of the forgotten heroes is often the film's music composer. And yet, i...
We doc filmmakers are no strangers to mental health. Whether by the very nature of being doc filmmakers or from the subjects of our document...
When it comes to being affected by the coronavirus, we doc filmmakers, of course, are no exception. Whether we work in tv broadcasting, run...
One of the most compelling, intense, and well done documentaries that I saw in all of 2019 wasn't even a feature length film. In fact, its r...
The playing field for distribution, promotions, and marketing for independent documentary filmmakers seems to be changing daily. But one thi...
Joshua Riehl was a first time doc filmmaker when he decided to make a film about his passion for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hocke...
Are you thinking of traveling for your doc any time soon? Awesome. You know how much we love to travel for our doc filmmaking. And Chris has...
Shouldn't you be making 2020 your breakthrough year in documentary filmmaking? We all know how difficult, sometimes frustrating, it can be g...
Welcome to your Season Two BONUS episode! In which you'll find selections from five of some of my favorite conversations that I've had with...
Filming the ones that we love and making documentaries about them can be a challenging, but ultimately very rewarding experience. It can be...
One of the most popular topics on The Documentary Life deals with post production. More specifically, editing your documentary film. And not...
Two veterans of Ken Burns films, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein , have recently completed work on their documentary film, four-part PBS seri...
How can you raise a quick $8k in 18 days for your documentary film? Steph and I recently did this on our doc project, Elvis of Cambodia. We’...
How does one combine the expanse of one’s artistic works and their personal journey with breast cancer into their first documentary film? Th...
What if there was a viable way for the independent documentary filmmaker to build and sustain an audience to support your doc films for the...
If you were subjected to daily bombardment from the air, you were entrenched in a make-shift hospital, and you’d just recently had a baby, w...
What if there was a pretty straightforward way for the independent documentary filmmaker to raise a quick infusion of funding for their docu...
Ever noticed just how many barriers there seem to be to this documentary filmmaking thing? Funding. Equipment. Live pitch presentations. Dis...
So many of us doc filmmakers think that we’ll never make any money from our films. Or that we’re incapable of raising money for them. And th...
So many doc filmmakers are doing the one person crew documentary. For many, it’s a necessary evil due to financial constraints of the doc fi...
How many times have you been approached by a friend or family member with another “great idea for a documentary”, when they find out that yo...
Ever wonder what it might be like to discover a treasure trove of archival footage that lay untouched for over thirty years for your documen...
When filmmakers Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce met, it was a match in doc filmmaking heaven. Their first documentary film, The Art of the St...
Entrepreneur, Dominic Johnson-Hill , has just spent the last year traveling China and presenting for the documentary series, Seasons of Chin...
Doug Block has made a living out of the personal documentary style, including films like Home Page, 51 Birch Street, and The Kids Grow Up ....
Few people know the crowdfunding game like John Trigonis. He is considered to be one of the leading experts in the game. And with good reaso...
Thom Powers has been more in touch with documentary filmmaking and filmmakers than most anyone I know. Which makes sense, since he made docs...
Doc filmmaking duo, James Jones and Olivier Sarbil, have been making their doc living on the frontline of some of the world’s most dangerous...
We’re back! Season 2 of the TDL podcast has officially begun… Pamela B. Green has made her first documentary feature, Be Natural: The Untold...
It is the week of giving thanks, as we celebrate Thanksgiving here in the U.S. Coincidentally, it is episode #100, our last episode of Seaso...
Peter Mortimer has been climbing and making outdoor adventure films for the past twenty years through his company, Sender Films . His compan...
Maureen Gosling is not only the editor of my favourite documentary film of all time, but quite possibly my favourite film of all time. Perio...
Doc Society (formerly BritDoc) is a non-profit that has been working directly with documentary filmmakers since its inception in 2005, to ma...
Jon Kasbe may not be a name that you are familiar with… yet. Unless you are intricately connected to film festivals or an avid follower of s...
Steve James is one of the most recognizable names in documentary. Many of us #doclifers have been inspired by his films and the way in which...
No one knows documentary film distribution in quite the way that film distro wizard, Jon Reiss does. The founder of Hybrid Cinema and author...
Mat Hames is one of the few, fortunate ones in our doc world that makes his entire living doing his passion of documentary film. Whether it...
An often overlooked aspect of film funding is the individual donor. Which is kind of surprising, given that statistics tend to show that 50...