Posts tagged with "documentary"
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AMONG B-BOYS: Bringin' in the New Year part 1
At Among B-Boys 2, April 2007. Let’s hope this New Year jam is this good… 12/28/2007, Part 1 – 99 Problems but a Shoot Ain’t… (this is a 3 part posting. This first was written Thursday night and Friday Morning If you’re having production problems, I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems [...]
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WHATEVER IT TAKES: Breaking Stereotypes
Started editing today on our Final Cut Pro system. Definitely feels good to finally be at this stage, when all the footage gradually morphs into comprehensive scenes. I’m looking forward to developing our main characters into the fullest and most meaningful realization of who they truly are.
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WHATEVER IT TAKES: Shaking dat money tree
I used to think that the hardest part of producing a documentary was the shooting and editing. Now I know better. Raising money is far more difficult… Why? Because ultimately, one has absolutely no control over how the funding decisions are made.
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WHATEVER IT TAKES: Finding the Story
Shooting 140 hours of footage is one thing. Logging, organizing, capturing, and digitizing it is quite another… We are now just over halfway done with the review, and it’s obvious that the discussions we are having now will save us a tremendous amount of time and effort later.
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Festival Stars: Where are they now? (Part 1)
Are Dan “Bjorn Turoque” Crane (“To air is human, to air guitar, divine”) and David “C-Diddy” Jung (“Asian fury, air supremacy”) of AIR GUITAR NATION still rocking the air?
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Lee Wang
Filmmaker Lee Wang showed her film, SOMEONE ELSE’S WAR at the 2007 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. We got a chance to sit down and talk with her about her film, civilian contractors in Iraq, and documentary filmmaking. Check out our conversation in the featured video section to learn more about Lee and her powerful film.
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WHATEVER IT TAKES: First Log
Hi everybody, my name is Christopher Wong, and I’ve been asked to write a weekly blog about my feature-length documentary film WHATEVER IT TAKES – a year-long story about a new public school in New York City’s South Bronx.
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HOLLYWOOD CHINESE Los Angeles Premiere
If you are in LA next week don’t miss HOLLYWOOD CHINESE at the AFI Fest Wednesday, November 7 at 6:45PM.
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NEW YEAR BABY Premiering on Independent Lens
Born in a Thai refugee camp on Cambodian New Year, filmmaker Socheata Poeuv grew up in the United States never knowing that her family had survived the Khmer Rouge genocide.
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OUT OF THE POISON TREE on Public Television February 2008
An American survivor of the Cambodian genocide hopes to unlock the mystery of her father’s disappearance in 1975.
