Michael Moore's 13 Rules for Making Documentary Films | Indiewire

During his keynote at the Toronto International Film Festival's sixth annual Doc Conference, Michael Moore shared his advice to documentary filmmakers, beginning with the notion that they shouldn't be called documentarians at all. "We are not documentarians, we are filmmakers," he told the crowd at the start of his 13-point manifesto.

www.indiewire.com/article/michael-moores-13-rules-for-making-documentary-films-20140910

News Shooter | How to get ahead in video journalism – 10 tips for starting out from Webby award winner Pete Pattisson

In 2000 I got my first photos published in a magazine. Fourteen years later I won a Webby Award for my film exposing the treatment of migrant workers in Qatar, host of the 2022 World Cup.

Along the way I've learned a few things about what it takes to succeed (or at least survive) as a freelance video journalist. I certainly don't have all the answers, but I hope one or two of these tips may be helpful to some of you trying to break in to this most competitive of fields. 

www.newsshooter.com/2014/09/08/how-to-get-ahead-in-video-journalism-10-tips-for-starting-out-from-webby-award-winner-pete-pattisson

Shooting Documentary: Five tips for filmmakers - Imagejunkies

I've been lucky enough during my career to shoot a number of documentaries. Above is my most recent, a 45 minute film exploring the lack of equality worldwide between men and women.

www.imagejunkies.com/2014/04/25/shooting-docos-five-tips

Film Directing Tips, Film Making Articles and Online Resources for the Independent Filmmaker

Hollywood's health and safety nightmare - Film Directing Tips, Film Making Articles and Online Resources for the Independent Filmmaker

It was the middle of the afternoon when the emergency call came from Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire. A 71-year-old man had injured his ankle "in an incident involving a garage door". Paramedics on the air ambulance sent to ferry him to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford were amazed to discover their patient was no ordinary pensioner, but Hollywood actor Harrison Ford. His ankle had been smashed by a door falling from the Millennium Falcon, the spaceship his character Han Solo flies in the original Star Wars trilogy.

http://filmdirectingtips.com/archives/9884

How to show texting on-screen | A ton of useful information about screenwriting from screenwriter John August

Craig and I may have taken umbrage at his video about comedy directors who aren't Edgar Wright, but Tony Zhou'snewest video looking at how filmmakers handle texting and the internet on-screen is all good.

johnaugust.com/2014/texting-in-film-and-television

7 Things You Need To Make A Documentary

7 Things You Need To Make A Documentary

Mad about a thing? Want to make a documentary about it and upset a lot of other people too? In this article, I offer guidance to help you on your journey to becoming a rock star of PBS, a lead singer of troubling footage, a drummer of pie charts, a flutist of social engineering masquerading as conscience. The time has never been more totally nigh for Americans to learn the real truth about how things actually work behind the curtains, see how the sausage gets made. The truly beautiful thing about documentaries as beacons of social change is that nothing inspires a revolution so much as a bunch of people who will never meet each other to organize against a common enemy going to bed angry.

It doesn't matter if you do an exposé, a biography, or a societal critique wherein you have a massive complaint that probably pertains to you and definitely has something to do with your daddy, there are some rules you need to abide.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/alexa-kocinski/2014/07/7-things-you-need-to-make-a-documentary/

Filmmakers Increasingly Turning to Kickstarter

Filmmakers Increasingly Turning to Kickstarter

SAN DIEGO — The do-it-yourself spirit was alive and well at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International, and not just among the throngs of attendees dressed in homemade costumes. In the wake of the Kickstarter campaign that successfully greenlighted the Veronica Marsmovie, several filmmakers took to this year's event to tout supporting their own projects through the crowd-sourcing site.

The most prominent among them involves a television adaptation of the 1999 cult-hit comedyFree Enterprise, a love letter to "Star Trek" fandom and geek culture that celebrated its 15th anniversary with a panel at the convention. According to the film's co-writers, Mark A. Altman and Robert Meyer Burnett, the show would retain the humor and pop culture references of the film, but with a new cast and new adventures.

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/comic-con/filmmakers-increasingly-turning-kickstarter-33797