CHAPTER 4GETTING AHEAD

DOI: 10.4324/9781003158776-5

Getting Ahead as a documentary filmmaker sometimes involves a shift. You’ve done well enough getting here. You’ve established yourself and honed your craft, but you sense there’s something more. In the interviews and essays that follow, Kazuhiro Soda explains how he broke free and began making award-winning work by following his own ten commandments. Mary Jane Doherty then takes us to Cuba, the national ballet, and into the delightful worlds of epiphany and the research lab. 2023 Sundance Winners, Michèle Stevenson and Joe Brewster, discuss pushing the boundaries of the form, via being vulnerable in the process and evolving. Molly O’Brien speaks from the leading edge of the industry, and ...

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