In my recent Filmmaker conversation with Julia Loktev about the making of her monumental documentary, My Undesirable Friends, I cited the work of the late documentary filmmaker Joel ...

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Throughout his career, documentary filmmaker Matt Wolf has excelled at portraits of complicated artists and individuals whose ...

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Ben Rivers discusses the making of Mare’s Nest, reaching out to Don DeLillo and staging his play the Mare’s Nest and ...

Neither Barbie production designer Sarah Greenwood nor set decorator Katie Spencer had Barbie dolls growing up. “Or a DreamHouse, or anything,” recalls Greenwood, who joined Filmmaker on Zoom… ...

Journalist and documentarian Gaia Caramazza discusses questions of access and consent when filming the Columbia University ...

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Netflix’s ever-shifting catalog is subject to sudden deletions and additions, the latter skewed far more to recent fare than a balanced sampling of all film history. Still, careful mining reveals a ...

Over the past eight years, Jon Bois has become a key pioneer of documentaries made for the internet. As the creative director of Secret Base, the YouTube channel of sports blog network SB Nation… ...

This article was originally published in our Fall, 1995 issue. It may look easy but sometimes it’s pretty hard to keep coming up with the inspirational success stories we usually pack into Filmmaker.