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About documentary storytelling
Keep a Close Watch: Analyzing a Documentary's Strengths and Weaknesses, in Documentary magazine, International Documentary Association, Spring 2016. [**Also available in Romanian, on the website of Docuart, translated by Anca Yvette Gradinariu.]
Making Choices: Excerpts of a Conversation with Filmmaker Stanley Nelson (The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution), blog post, February 2016
Writing Credits and the Twilight Zone, blog post on documentary writing, August 2012
Getting to Sundance: Writing the Theatrical Documentary, blog post, June 2012
Casting Your Documentary: Choosing Wisely Can Strengthen Documentary Storytelling, in StudentFilmmakers Magazine, March 2007
Creative License vs. Creative Arrangement, in the Writer's Store ezine, May 2007
You Need Somebody There to Document It, in DoubleTake/Points of Entry, Spring/Summer 2007
Objectivity and Intimacy,in studentfilmmakers, October 2006
When the Levees Broke, in studentfilmmakers, August 2006
Story First, in studentfilmmakers, April 2006
From Idea to Story, in AIVF's The Independent, December 2003
Know Narration's Nuances, in Writer's Digest, October 2003
Documentary Storytelling, in the Writer's Store e-zine, July 2004
Making Choices: Excerpts of a Conversation with Filmmaker Stanley Nelson (The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution), blog post, February 2016
Writing Credits and the Twilight Zone, blog post on documentary writing, August 2012
Getting to Sundance: Writing the Theatrical Documentary, blog post, June 2012
Casting Your Documentary: Choosing Wisely Can Strengthen Documentary Storytelling, in StudentFilmmakers Magazine, March 2007
Creative License vs. Creative Arrangement, in the Writer's Store ezine, May 2007
You Need Somebody There to Document It, in DoubleTake/Points of Entry, Spring/Summer 2007
Objectivity and Intimacy,in studentfilmmakers, October 2006
When the Levees Broke, in studentfilmmakers, August 2006
Story First, in studentfilmmakers, April 2006
From Idea to Story, in AIVF's The Independent, December 2003
Know Narration's Nuances, in Writer's Digest, October 2003
Documentary Storytelling, in the Writer's Store e-zine, July 2004
About Eyes on the Prize, the 14-hour public television history
Watching Eyes on the Prize, in DoubleTake/Points of Entry, Fall/Winter 2006
Eyes on the Rights, in Documentary, June 2005
(All 14 hours of this series [season 1 (1954-1965) and season 2 (1965-1985)] are available to educators. Click here for details at the PBS website.
Eyes on the Rights, in Documentary, June 2005
(All 14 hours of this series [season 1 (1954-1965) and season 2 (1965-1985)] are available to educators. Click here for details at the PBS website.
- Transcripts of the programs can be found at the PBS American Experience website.
- Full (unedited) interview transcripts and others materials can be found at the Hampton Archives, Washington university.
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About working with copyrighted images and music (with Kenn Rabin)
A Conversation with Selma Archive Producer Kenn Rabin, in The American Historian,
February 2015 - information about working on director Ava DuVernay's Selma, produced by Cloud Eight, Harpo Films, and Plan B Entertainment. The Ethics of Archival Storytelling, excerpt of Archival Storytelling in IDA ezine, October 2008 |
About working in documentary
Shooting "The Navigators"
Collaborating on Documentaries, in the Writer's Store e-zine, March 2004
So You Want to Work in Documentary: Tips on Getting Started, in Documentary magazine, Fall 2009
So You Want to Work in Documentary: Tips on Getting Started, in Documentary magazine, Fall 2009
Book reviews
Patricia Aufderheide, Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction, in IDA ezine, March 4, 2008
Alan Rosenthal and John Corner (eds.), New Challenges for Documentary, in The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, October 2007
Julianna Freehand, The Only Woman on Board: The photographs, diaries, letters, and memorabilia of a Maine sea captain and his wife, 1859-1908, in Maine in Print, Spring 1995
Alan Rosenthal and John Corner (eds.), New Challenges for Documentary, in The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, October 2007
Julianna Freehand, The Only Woman on Board: The photographs, diaries, letters, and memorabilia of a Maine sea captain and his wife, 1859-1908, in Maine in Print, Spring 1995
Press interviews
- The Daily Gazette (31 Jan 2014) - re Slavery by Another Name
- UAlbany Q&A (19 Jan 2012) - re Slavery by Another Name
- Interview, TPT - re Slavery by Another Name