We're about mid-way through the 20th annual DC Environmental Film Festival, which features an astounding 180 films, and not just documentary -- narrative, animated, experimental and more. What's impressive is not just the breadth of films involved, but that this festival takes advantage of the kind of experiences unique to our nation's capital. Read more...
As a documentary filmmaker you may be starting out with a script, but not yet with the story. This was the case for veteran Dutch filmmaker John Appel for whom "
The SILVERDOCS 2011 film festival and conference are halfway through and as usual fail to disappoint. 
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:
On Dec. 8, Pat Aufderheide and Julia Bacha, director of the documentary Budrus, talked about making films on challenging subjects at Washington D.C.’s West End Cinema. Budrus, like other films from Just Vision, focuses on civilian efforts for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 