Looking for a practical, step-by-step guide to creating a documentary film? You might look no further than a new compact handbook co-authored by UC Santa Cruz associate professor of film and digital ...

To all the aspiring documentary filmmakers with cameras in your hand, passion in your heart, and a brain screaming, “God! Where do I start!” Take a deep breath, because it only gets better from here.

Kirsten Johnson has worked as a cinematographer and camera operator for documentary films for more than two decades. She’s lensed for the likes of Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, Laura Poitras, and ...

Gary Chilutti first discovered his passion for filmmaking while doing social work. "My first career was in community-based development, helping disadvantaged communities to create and implement ...

In what now feels like a humbling admission of my own naiveté, I sat down to watch “Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films” under the baseless impression that Disney+’s new streaming documentary was ...

Features might get all the glitzy attention, but short films are the backbone of the cinematic world. From Martin Scorsese (“The Big Shave,” 1967) to Wes Anderson (“Bottle Rocket,” 1994) to ...

Released a little over 4 months after James Gunn’s Superman hit cinemas and kicked off the theatrical arm of the DCU, Superman: The Art and Making of the Film is James Field’s celebration of the ...

"Avatar: The Way of Water" might be the most digitally sophisticated movie ever made, but it only worked because all of its tech was in service to human emotion. In what now feels like a humbling ...