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I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film.
Chris Hegedus / Filmmaker
Documentaries
Documentary Films
Film
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Crowdsourcing is an invaluable resource for filmmakers, but be prepared for an enormous amount of work.
Chris Hegedus / Filmmaker
Crowdsourcing
Enormous
Resources
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I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.
Chris Hegedus / Filmmaker
Being There
Giving
Stories
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I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about.
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Opportunity
Documentaries
World
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Since I shoot, record audio and edit, I was able to begin the filming without hiring a crew and create a sample to show broadcasters and grant organizations.
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Audio
Organization
Records
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Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker.
Chris Hegedus / Filmmaker
Men
Editing
Years
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If you love your craft there will be passion. Most of my films are with people who are really passionate about what they are doing and know how to do something well.
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Love You
Passion
People
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My favorite film is "Meshes in the Afternoon," a short avant garde film directed by Maya Deren. This was the first film that I saw that was actually directed by a woman.
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Afternoon
Avant Garde
Saws
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It's always been difficult for me to find funding for a story that I want to follow in real time. Financiers are hesitant to support a project when they don't know the outcome.
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Real
Stories
Support
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Learning how to do some of the technical work on the film can be helpful too and allows you to start the film on your own. However, if you are passionate about an idea, just begin.
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Helpful
Ideas
Passionate
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When Steve Wise told me that he intended to argue in court before a judge that an animal could be a "legal person," it seemed like a novel, possibly far-fetched idea, but the more I thought about it, the more I became intrigued.
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Wise
Animal
Ideas
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I was inspired by Maya Deren because she was the first woman filmmaker whose films I saw. I also loved Fellini and Goddard because they were so different from Hollywood films. But when I saw the cinema verite films that were made by Drew Associates with Leacock and Pennebaker I found my passion.
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Different
Hollywood Films
Passion
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When I was growing up in the '50s, I had never heard of a "woman film director," so I did not consider it as an option. But I was fortunate that in the late-'60s and '70s, because of the feminist movement, women were stepping into all sorts of careers that had been closed to them in the past and film was one of them.
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Careers
Growing Up
Past
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