Yesterday was day two of the Documentary Summit: Raleigh. As I mentioned in my post about day one here, the Documentary Summit was a chance to hear filmmakers talk about filmmaking. Panelists were locally-based people working in the documentary film industry.
Let me tell ya, we have some talented folks in North Carolina. Every time I learn more about what’s happening in our state I am impressed — although I’ve gotta be biased since I’m a native. The area has such vibrancy, energy, and diversity. There’s support and encouragement for indie filmmaking, and it seems to be gaining momentum quickly. It’s exciting stuff.
Since I took plenty of pics I took during the summit, I posted some of them below. I’ll share more information about the weekend as I process it this week. In the meantime, you can do a Twitter search to get more quotes and conversations. (Go to Twitter search, and type in “#docsummit” without the quote marks.) You can also view other photos I took during the weekend on my Instagram profile page here.
Also, please note that there will be a filmmaker social on the Trailblazer Studios sound stage in January. They’re kind enough to host the next #TriFilm event, so be sure to register here today!
Rachel Raney, executive director of the Southern Documentary Fund, and Andrew Zinnes, organizer of the Documentary Summit, take questions from the audience.
The lobby of Trailblazer Studios has a large logo hanging in it. I pretty much love how it looks.
Andrew Zinnes, Skip Elsheimer, and Coe Ramsay talk about legal issues related to documentary filmmaking. (Skip, of A/V Geeks, helped me digitize footage for Abandoned Allies.)
Andrew Zinnes, Angela Alford, and Scott Misner talk about crowd funding and marketing. Angela recently used IndieGoGo to raise funds for her film Granny’s Got Game.
Barbara Trent talks about the process she uses to make documentary films. The Panama Deception (1992), which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, documents “the untold story of the December 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama.”