In order to really reach a global audience it is very important to offer subtitles. We show you how to do so and what apps to use.

As soon as you are planning to shoot a doc in a foreign country production costs i.e. for calling locals or team members can explode. But there are plenty of solutions to save money.

There are as many different types of music documentaries as there are styles of music, but one of the first instances of music actually being combined with “film” in the [...]

Aside from atrocities and brutality, war means business. Not only to the arms industry but also to film producers and military propaganda units (a recent film that dealt with war [...]

Acclaimed filmmaker, Nicolas Philibert shares his very particular and personal approach to documentary. In 2001, he directed “To Be and to Have” (Être et avoir) on the daily life of [...]

One of the most distinctive filmmakers of our time, Werner Herzog has been called the “romantic visionary” of the New German Cinema movement. His edgy, larger-than-life films fuse the epic [...]

Born in Graz, Austria, in 1959, Michael Glawogger is a traveling filmmaker. Not only does he literally journey around the world for his documentaries, he also moves back and forth [...]

Although the terms Direct Cinema and Cinéma vérité are often described as being quite similar, they are in fact two opposing ways in trying to meet the same goal – [...]

Find a nice selected collection of tutorials on how to make a documentary film. You can use them for free, all you need is a lot of time and you [...]

Fake documentaries aka Mockumentaries & Pseudo-Documentaries. The documentary genre is as old as the history of the movies – the first images put to film weren’t exactly “art stuff” but [...]

Ok, so you want to share your film with the world. The next question that will come up: Which video hoster is best for me and my film? We could [...]