When I first started Columbia, the foundations courses in the Film & Video department didn’t include a documentary component. I waited until I could take a pilot of what is currently the foundation courses my sophomore year. Luckily, in the second semester, we got to make a documentary (see a snippet of my first doc [...]
Tip o’ the Month – Fundraising
There is a common myth that documentaries are, by nature, “low-budget” films. While certain costs may be lower, such as compensating actors, or covering large amounts of crew to feed/transport, there are considerations that must be made, such as… – Film festival submission fees – Transportation fees (since a lot of docs are shot on-location) [...]
Viva Doc Contributes to Studs Terkel Memorial Video
Naomi Kothbauer, the 2010-2011 Viva Doc president, recently contributed to a beautiful memorial video for the 2011 Studs Terkel Community Media Awards benefit. The video also features cinematography from Wonjung Bae, Dan Webster, Demetrio Maguigad, and Marissa Wasseluk.side effect viagra side effect of viagra natural viagra alternative to viagra alternatives to viagra natural alternatives to [...]
PBS Filmmaker to Screen Film, Do Q+A
Scottish filmmaker Amy Hardie has built a career making science documentaries that reflect her rational temperament. When she dreamed one night that her horse was dying, only to wake the next morning and find the horse dead, she dismissed the incident as a coincidence. Then she dreamed she would die at age 48 — only [...]
Free Documentary Films This Week!
Return of the Navajo Boy - Screening and Disussion “Doxita: Life is a Progress” Screening “American Arab” Screening “Return of the Navajo Boy” Screening and Panel Discussion Wednesday, November 10th @ 12:30, 1104 – 8th Floor -Official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and PBS, The Return of Navajo Boy, directed by Jeff Spitz, [...]
Please Join Us on Tuesday, Sept. 13th for a Networking Party!
Viva Doc will be kicking off the Fall 2011 semester by hosting a networking event! This event is for anybody, no matter your year, major, concentration. If you love documentaries — making them or watching them or talking about them — Viva Doc is for you! We have a variety of opportunities for folks from [...]
ESPN’s 30 for 30
For years, ESPN had been relatively absent from the sports-doc scene, but after the 2008 release of Dan Klores’s Black Magic, ESPN saw an opportunity to make a statement. Black Magic examined the struggle for civil rights told through the eyes of basketball players at Historical Black Colleges and Universities. This four-hour documentary resembled something [...]
A Guide to Spring 2012 Documentary Film Classes
A Guide to the Spring 2012 Documentary viagraes. Spring 2012 Doc Class Sampler It’s that time of the year again – time to register for next semester’s classes! In order to make planning your schedule a bit easier, we have compiled this helpful guide consisting of a list of the documentary related classes being offered [...]
Upcoming Community Screenings
Community Cinema Chicago presents their the 2011 – 2012 season! Where: Chicago Cultural Center in the Claudia Cassidy Theater 78 E. Washington St. (across from Millennium Park) When: SEPTEMBER 29, Thursday, 6:30 PM Women, War & Peace: Peace Unveiled What is it about: When the U.S. troop surge was announced in late 2009, women in [...]