Every documentarian has a unique approach to filmmaking, but you might not expect that Frederick Wiseman and Gianfranco Rosi often have polar opposite …
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Editing
How do you edit a documentary? Gianfranco Rosi on Fire at Sea
In our second behind-the-scenes look at the film, Gianfranco Rosi talks editing Fire at Sea: how he narrows down his documentary footage and shapes it into …
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Penny Lane on NUTS!: a gullible audience
Penny Lane (Our Nixon) discusses NUTS!, the importance of pacing in her creative nonfiction exploration of pseudoscience, why they used animated …
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Director Andrew Haigh talks 45 Years
In this interview, Andrew Haigh discusses 45 Years, shooting long takes, keeping us in Kate’s head space, and editing the film before the editing room. You can …
Wiseman talks making In Jackson Heights
Master documentarian Frederick Wiseman discusses his editing process and how it informed how he shot In Jackson Heights. This is an excerpt from the ebook In …
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Queen and Country director John Boorman’s 8 lessons
British writer-director John Boorman has been making films since the 1960s, and has said that Queen and Country — a sequel to his autobiographical World War …
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