The GOOD DOCS Blog – Page 28

May 05, 2015

Director Julie Wyman on the Strongest Woman in the World

Julie Wyman is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and professor of film and technocultural studies at UC Davis. Her 2012 film STRONG! offers an intimate and uplifting portrait of Olympic weight lifter Cheryl Haworth, and serves as a visual investigation of...

Apr 07, 2015

Filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe talks debut doc Evolution of a Criminal

Filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe talks about his debut doc Evolution of a Criminal, the school to prison pipeline, and why no one ever asks what it’s like for white people to be white filmmakers. Evolution of a Criminal is...

Dec 04, 2014

Sascha Rice talks California State of Mind & Governor Pat Brown

What were some of the big lessons you learned in the process of making CALIFORNIA STATE OF MIND? I was surprised to discover how expensive archival footage is. More importantly, I learned that documentaries are different from fiction because the story...

Oct 28, 2014

Producer Eden Wurmfeld on Romeo Romeo and the LGBT Community

Could you talk about the impact and influence that women have in documentary filmmaking? How have women affected the field of documentary filmmaking?I think that it’s important to hear the different voices and stories. That’s what I believe the power...

Oct 06, 2014

Producer Caroline Libresco on why female voices in film matter

As a producer, how do you decide on the right projects and directors to work with? Why is the role of a producer important?I have worked with the same directors over and over again, so for me producing is a...