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Constant Beginnings: On the art of scheduling and the ease of Wikipedia
Real Insights BlogIn this post, Gilded Lily Productions’ Karen Hoy shares a few thoughts on mindful scheduling and the merits of Wikipedia over “proper” research. On the Art of Scheduling There was a useful interview with BBC head of arts commissioning Mark Bell in yesterday’s Guardian media pages. See it here. Among other things, he discusses the [...]
The Age of Stupid’s attack on complacency
Editor's NotesIn the filmmaking community, the latest feature from McLibel director Franny Armstrong, The Age of Stupid (Spanner Films), is generating at least as much attention for the way it made it to the screen as for the subject matter. While the topic of climate change is enough to inspire hundreds of thousands to take to [...]
Lie, cheat and steal isn’t always the way to play
Reality Girl BlogAnother summer season comes to an end, and with it ends the 11th season of Big Brother. This season was quite a roller coaster with house guests in an all-out-battle vocally. I have never seen a season where there was so much tension, distain and animosity between the house guests. It definitely made for interesting [...]
The Art of the Steal
Real Reviews BlogDirector and cinematographer Don Argott’s latest doc, The Art of the Steal, strangely made me feel the same way I felt last year when a news story came out about a woman in the Greater Toronto Area who was forced to get rid of her garden by the municipal government. Reportedly, the woman had a [...]
What will time tell?
Real Insights BlogLA-based producer/writer/director Peter Hankoff has worked with footage old and new for myriad projects. But how close to the truth is what ends up on camera, and how far away from that truth can any footage get over time? Here, Hankoff explains in his own words. I’ve been making non-fiction television for several years. A [...]
Constant beginnings: Why development people don’t like to shower
Real Insights BlogWe at Realscreen would like to welcome Karen Hoy, development writer/producer at UK-based development house Gilded Lily Productions, as one of our guest bloggers. In this, the first post in her series of blogs that she’s dubbed Constant Beginnings, Hoy discusses one of her favorite (and hygienically sound) tools for stimulating the development process. Look [...]
Send in the crowds
Editor's NotesRecently, the BBC announced it would be creating an “open source” documentary series on the creation and impact of the World Wide Web, and I’m more than a little bit excited to see how it all turns out. “Digital Revolution” (w/t) has just officially begun production (according to the project’s blog) and has put the [...]
HotRod: The Movie
Real Reviews BlogWhen my friends told me about a documentary akin to American Movie about a man trying to relive his past glory as a demolition derby champion I was warned of two things: one, it’s a great watch, but two, I was going to feel guilty watching it. I think the guilt they felt came from [...]
‘Crude’ and ‘Crips and Bloods: Made in America’
Real Reviews BlogJoe Berlinger’s exploration of Chevron/Texaco oils’ affect on Ecuadorian communities in Crude doesn’t immediately draw comparisons to gang culture in South Central L.A. But Stacy Peralta’s Crips and Bloods: Made in America does share the same crucial theme of minority cultures suffering due to social, political and economical factors. In Crude, it is a big [...]
Addicted to History’s Expedition Africa game
This and That BlogThis isn’t the first time I have become utterly obsessed with a multiplatform game – the first was Discovery’s Shark Week game, Sharkrunners. That one claimed a lot of my spare time a few months back when I wrote a story on gaming and non-fiction TV. Now up is the Expedition game that is part [...]
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Factual Entertainment Forum 2011 - Kinetic Content CEO Chris Coelen moderates “Crossing Borders: Intel from International Buyers” at Realscreen’s Factual Entertainment Forum.