Charles Koppelman

Documentary Notebook is a weekly newsletter for people interested in the state of the genre, people behind the camera, and the process of making documentaries. It does feel like a milestone of sorts. Editor Graeme Butler delivered a rough cut of the first act of the Tom Girardi film a

Documentary Notebook is a weekly newsletter for people interested in the state of the genre, people behind the camera, and the process of making documentaries. This was the first week of Erika Girardi’s $25 million civil trial I planned to document for my film about her husband Tom Girardi

Documentary Notebook is a weekly newsletter for people interested in the state of the genre, people behind the camera, and the process of making documentaries. In a recent Newsletter I wrote about a documentary I’m finishing and a dilemma about helping a source. The film is about notorious Los

Documentary Notebook is a weekly newsletter for people interested in the state of the genre, people behind the camera, and the process of making documentaries.  First, an update about Discord Democracy (working title) the documentary I am doing with Jon Lee Anderson of the New Yorker magazine. Our intention, as

Documentary Notebook is a weekly newsletter for people interested in the state of the genre, people behind the camera, and the process of making documentaries. After recently going back and forth with a source, I was thinking about ethics and documentary filmmaking. That's always been a healthy debate

Documentary Notebook is a weekly newsletter for people interested in the state of the genre, people behind the camera, and the process of making documentaries. This newsletter is devoted to documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple, a longtime friend and mentor. We first met before I became a filmmaker. I was working