Lauren Donia's Posts

When Heather Courtney set out to make her graduate thesis film, “Los Trabajadores”, in 1999, she had a clear objective – to tell a human story and inspire the audience to care about the people and the issue. Read more...

Liz Norton spent the earlier part of her professional career working with policy makers and wondering if her efforts truly helped improve the lives of others. Read more...

Documentarian Marshall Curry visited AU last week to screen his film, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, as part of the Center’s Human Rights Film Series. Read more...

Documentary filmmakers across the United States should be turning their attention to the U.S. Tax Court of Arizona where filmmaker Lee Storey awaits a verdict on whether documentary filmmaking can be considered a “for profit” endeavor. This idea may sound crazy, but as director Paul Devlin wrote in a piece for Filmmaker Magazine:Read more...

I’ve been lucky enough, the past two days, to sit in on a few filmmaker conference panels at SILVERDOCS. I learned quite a bit and it’s been tough to narrow down the items I want to share, but here they are:

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