A weekly newsletter by a documentary filmmaker covering the state of the genre, the process of making documentaries, and the blurred line between non-fiction and fiction film. Recent issues include a two-part interview with editor Walter Murch about editing documentaries versus features and essays on documentaries that inspire dramatic films.
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Analysis and commentary on the independent and documentary film ecosystem from a longtime nonprofit-sector insider. Issues cover foundation funding strategy, the economics of festival prestige and distribution, and community ownership efforts such as the Letterboxd bid.
Modern Times Review is a documentary film magazine covering politics, ecology, big tech, media and philosophy through festival coverage, reviews and interviews. Its issues preview European documentary festivals and news from the film industry, with substantive reviews and interviews.
Dear Producer features career advice, interviews with working film producers, and event invitations from an AFI producing faculty member. Readers get practical insight into producing, distribution, and breaking into the film industry.
Planet M is a storytelling studio that shares updates on its science fiction audio, its game EOS10: Anomaly, and its first documentary, Section 14, about the forced removal of Black and Latino families from Palm Springs. Issues mix production news and fundraising appeals with in-universe fiction, serialized as transmissions from the EOS10 station.
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