I just read an interview with the Documentary Doctor, Fernanda Rossi about trailers and it made me feel really good about ours. The Girlworld trailer as it is now is 10 minutes of Shanta, our oldest (and I would say, most intense) subject.
In these 10 minutes we see her walking home from school, doing her [...]
Scott and I are working and reworking our Girlworld pitch. You know, what we tell people when they ask us what we’re doing.
We are getting better and better, the more we do it. One thing that is becoming very clear is that for funders we really need to explain how our documentary will bring change [...]
A couple months ago we wrote about Shanta. Amy wrote, “…she really gets it!” –meaning that Shanta seemed to sense that being part of our film might have a bigger effect on her life than just the several days’ interruption us and our cameras made.
On our first day with Shanta, as we had with most of [...]
A couple of years ago I made Amy a gift of a subscription to the remarkable Journal of Short Film. This is something pretty nifty: a DVD magazine, or a film festival for your mailbox.
Sign up for the exceedingly reasonable subscription, and four times a year, a very nicely produced DVD volume of short films [...]
Our dear friend Jen called us up today to say we’ve got a starring role on her favorite blog. Seattle Tall Poppy, it turns out, is a standout among Seattle’s pretty stellar rank of RFB’s (Righteous Foodie Blogs).
What a very generous and thoughtful post this happy, high achieving blogger, Traca, has made! This is just [...]
