Does Your Art Reflect the Times?

Legendary blues and jazz singer Nina Simone challenges artists to use their craft to make a difference.

Set Design Part 2: Documentary Filmmaking

Set design is not only important for narrative fiction, it’s also something to take seriously in documentary work.

Patrick Moreau and Grant Peelle – Crossing the 180 #110

Today is part 2 of my double-feature with stillmotion talking about the making of their documentary. It is also the series finale of Crossing the 180. We’re going out with a bang folks!

3 Reasons the Canon C100 is Great for Documentaries

My guest post on DDMag about my experience using Canon’s C100.

Hailey Bartholomew on Crossing the 180 #95

A filmmaker from down under creates a powerful documentary short that gets worldwide acclaim. Learn about her incredible story.

3 Post Production Lessons from the Creative Mornings Doc (Part 3 of 3)

From camera formats, to codecs, to color grading and more. Valuable lessons I learned making this short film doc.

How and Why to Make a Short Film Documentary with No Budget – Part 1

Part 1 in a 3-part series about the lessons learned in producing our Creative Mornings short film documentary. Today I cover pre-production.

Grant Peelle on Crossing the 180

For perhaps the first time ever we have a self-described “rookie” filmmaker. But see why this rookie has gotten Patrick Moreau and StillMotion to sign on as story consultants to their film.

World Wide Web Premiere of our Creative Mornings Documentary

It is my hope that both this film and the story behind the making of it will inspire all you creatives to push yourself, pursue your craft with passion, conviction and purpose.

Sarah Klein, Tom Mason and their Documentary on Ken Burns

This week on Crossing the 180 we get to interview the filmmakers behind the documentary short starring the king of documentaries himself, Ken Burns. This one is short, but VERY sweet!

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