Steps to produce a successful commercial.

Steps to produce a successful commercial.

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Documentary filmmakers fear more legal challenges in Trump era

A FEW DAYS AFTER Donald Trump was elected president, a respected documentary film director met with a roomful of potential backers and distributors in New York City. The director was making a film about questionable contributions to Republican political campaigns, a hot topic given the election. The men and women in the room were riveted by the stirring trailer that captured the drama and enthused over the unusually close access to the subjects. The cinematography was terrific. One-by-one, they pledged money for production and to get word out to festivals. The filmmaker was thrilled, but also was looking for a bigger commitment. “We’re seeking lawyers,” the filmmaker said. “Pro bono legal resources. We think we might encounter opposition.” Those present asked that specifics about the meeting, and the film, be withheld to keep potential litigants from catching wind of the project. These concerns are not paranoia. Just the threat of a lawsuit, no matter how baseless, can tie a film up in court and deplete its maker’s savings. And it’s a silencing tactic that deep-pocketed political and corporate interests are wielding with greater frequency. Some of the hardest-hitting documentaries in recent years have been forced to delay release or cough up hefty fees for attorneys, among them Bananas!, a 2009 documentary about Nicaraguan plantation workers for Dole Food Co. who were sickened by a pesticide banned in the US; Citizenfour, which followed Edward Snowden as he began to leak documents about US surveillance programs; and Crude, which dealt with a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against Chevron Corp. that claimed the oil giant despoiled the Amazonian jungle in Ecuador. Many in the...

5 Essential Tips on Producing Documentaries

Dan Cogan, Executive Director and Cofounder of Impact Partners and producer Howard Gertler have worked together on two films: the Academy Award-nominated “How to Survive a Plague” and DOC NYC Opening Night film “Do I Sound Gay?” In a Masterclass on Producing on November 17th, Cogan and Gertler will used these two films as case studies to explore creative and business challenges in documentary producing and ways to overcome them. Here are five tips they shared about producing a documentary: Get shit done.  The producer’s main job, according to Cogan, is to “get shit done.” The producer is responsible for financing, running the production, handling people and crews with care and grace and creating a positive experience for everyone on board. Story structure matters. Gertler said “How to Survive a Plague” had no structure at all when he came on board. They had 700 hours of footage with an eight-month deadline looming. Its first-time director, David France, was a journalist who knew how to tell a story but not how to craft or cut a film. So Gertler had to help France find his focus and bring his vision to life. “People won’t remember all the facts,” Gertler said. “They remember the characters and what happens to them.” When asked if he feels like he’s taking away power from the director, Gertler said, “The producer is there to help the director accomplish his or her vision. I’m like a handmaiden to the director. We challenge them and push them, we don’t challenge their authority.” Make it as strong as possible. The pair suggested that filmmakers shouldn’t send their films to festivals,...

Inside Nat Geo’s incredible documentary mission to Mars

A spaceship is preparing to land on Mars when the crew notices that one of the thrusters isn’t firing. There is, as they say, a problem. But there’s no use telling Houston—by the time a distress message reaches home more than 30 million miles away, either the astronauts on board will be space dust or humanity will have become an interplanetary species. That’s the premise of National Geographic’s new series, Mars, which mixes documentary and speculation to tell the parallel stories of two groups: the fictional future explorers who will make that first journey, and the pioneers of today—scientists, astronauts, and strategists—who are blazing the trail. In the premier episode, for example, that white-knuckle landing scene is spliced with a look at Elon Musk’s SpaceX as engineers test a real retropropulsion landing system. Every piece of tech in the show was designed to accurately reflect the current scientific vision of how we’ll get to Mars—and to avoid the gaffes that have undermined recent films and invited the wrath of astrophysicist/space ombudsman Neil deGrasse Tyson. As executive producer Ron Howard puts it, “It’s not sci-fi!” (Indeed, President Obama has outlined a vision to send humans into Mars’ orbit by the mid-2030s.). Here’s how Mars envisions our red future. The six astronauts in Mars travel to their new home in a rocket called the Daedalus, and their ship is based on science that’s more than simply plausible—it’s coming, and fast. “This is technology that will probably be tested in the next five years,” executive producer Justin Wilkes says. The spacecraft is heavily inspired by SpaceX, but it also borrows design elements from NASA,...

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