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Interview with Ben Gale
Ben Gale is Senior Commissioning Executive of documentaries and contemporary factual programming at BBC Three. He talks to the DFG about his job and the importance of new talent. by Sarah Brownrigg
DFG interview with Richard Melman
As Channel Director of both The Biography Channel and The History Channel in the UK, Richard Melman is the man to know.
 by Sarah Brownrigg
Two articles by Sean McAllister
Sean McAllister won the Special Jury Prize (World Documentaries) at Sundance 2005 for his film The Liberace of Baghdad, the stuff of most filmmakers' dreams. In the following two articles he tells us what it felt like to win, why festivals are so important, and shares some hard truths that face many documentary filmmakers.
by Sean McAllister
DFG interview with Filip Remunda
Czech Dream is the final year film from two young directors, Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda, who studied together at FAMU (Film And TV School Of The Academy Of Performing Arts) in Prague. Co-director Filip Remundo and DFG's Sarah Brownrigg recently met up to talk a little about supermarkets and the docu-scene in the Czech Republic.
by Sarah Brownrigg
What commissioning editors want
At SIDF 2005, DFG staffer Kerry McLeod finds out what commissioning editors are after.
by Kerry McLeod
Interview with Kim Longinotto Ahead of the release of her film Sisters in Law, we speak to Kim Longinotto about her experiences as a documentary filmmaker.
 by Rosie Saunders
DFG Interview with John Scheinfeld DFG interviews John Scheinfeld, director of The US v John Lennon, about making feature documentaries and the incredible story of the establishment verses the popstar.
 by DFG
DFG Interview with Al Morrow DFG interviews Al Morrow, producer of Deep Water, the latest big British documentary release.
 by DFG
Is a Birds Eye View unique to birds? As the 2007 Birds Eye View Film Festival kicks off in London, we spoke to co-founder and festival director Rachel Milward about whether there's such a thing as a 'female vision' in women's films.
 by Kerry McLeod
Putting the World to Rights Last week saw the premiere of education charity WORLDwrite’s latest two films Think Big and A Letter to Geldolf. DFG writer Philip Moore shared the experience.
 by Philip Moore
Werner’s World: The enigma that is Werner Herzog Phil Moore, DFG writer and Herzog afficionado, previews the ICA season of Werrner Herzog’s films, running 9th June – 30th June

 by Philip Moore
Interview with Asger Leth, Director of The Ghosts of Cité Soleil This summer a remarkable documentary is released in selected cinemas. Containing all the drama, tension and sweeping action sequences that you would expect from a big-budget Hollywood movie, The Ghosts of Cité Soleil is all the more shocking because it’s real.
by Kerry McLeod
Interview with John Maringouin, Director of Running Stumbled As the twisted, suffocating and highly recommended doc Running Stumbled is released in the UK by the ICA, DFG writer Claire Fowler caught up with the film's director for a conversation about strange families...
 by Claire Fowler
Where Old Docs Go (To Live) As the BFI launches a series of initiatives to celebrate the centenaries of several major British documentary figures, the BFI National Archive's Senior Curator of Non-Fiction, Patrick Russell, asks us to spare a thought for the archives of this world.
 by Patrick Russell
The Story of a War, One Clip at a Time Meghan Horvath discovered that researching archival footage for a 14 ½ hour documentary series about the Second World War for American public television required a combination of obsession, organisation, imagination and finger crossing. And the wisdom to know which of these to favour when. by Meghan Horvath
Gypsy Caravan: When the Road Bends Interview with Jasmine Dellal, director of Gypsy Caravan...
 by DFG
Interview with Will Francome Will Francome's highly personal film In Prison My Whole Life is screening at this year's Times BFI 51st London Film Festival. DFG writer Phil Moore has known him for years, and caught up with him on the eve of the festival.
 by Phil Moore
Interview with Geoffrey Smith The director of the powerful and incredibly moving film The English Surgeon, talks to DFG about overcoming financial - and physical obstacles - to get the film made.
 by Kerry McLeod
Songs of the Super Girls on the Road to the Golden Age Jian Yi's first feature length documentary follows several contestants of the now banned Chinese reality television show Supergirls, revealing the expectations of teenaged girls in a transitional society. Meghan Horvath caught up with Jian when the film premiered at the Cambridge International Film Festival this year.
 by Meghan Horvath
Interview with Tanaz Eshaghian The Iranian-American director of Transsexual in Iran, a film about a gender reassignment clinic in Tehran, talks about the experience of filming a highly controversial subject in a notoriously difficult climate.
DFG Graduate Success Story: Where Angels Fear to Tread DFG graduate Frances Harper has written about her whirlwind experience of the past year, in which after attending a DFG "Writing and Pitching Your Proposal" course, she went on to produce a half-hour documentary for the BBC. by Frances Harper
How to get Ahead in Documentary - A DFG Guide Here the collective expertise of DFG is pooled into one handy guide to getting started in the world of docs.
 by DFG
Permission Culture - Press 'Escape' Till now, as independent filmmakers (especially of non-fiction), there have always been gatekeepers between us and our audience. In the UK, they've been the primary broadcasting channels. Ultimately, this has made us 'independent' filmmakers passive, subservient. But with the internet all that is changing...
 by Lisa Salem
Interview with Charles-Henri Belleville The youngest filmmaker to be nominated for the Raindance Best UK Feature award, and director of new documentary Midnight Madness talks to Zoë Morgan Chiswick about the difference between making fiction and documentaries.
 by Zoë Morgan Chiswick
On Production Management Top Production Manager Linda Stradling chats to DFG about extreme bodies, hurricanes and earthquakes, together with the more extraordinary aspects of being a PM.
 by Lucy Hunot
Interview with Heavy Load Heavy Load, the eponymous band of Jerry Rothwell’s latest feature documentary, have been living it up on the press junkets surrounding the release of the film in cinemas in the UK. They did, however, find a short amount of time to catch up with DFG. by Jamie Heatly
Interview with Jerry Rothwell Jerry Rothwell, director of the trilling Deep Water (2006), has most recently turned his attention to Heavy Load, a chaotic British punk band half-comprised of members with learning disabilities. He talks to DFG about the emotional journey of making a film, cinema docs and punk...
 by Jamie Heatly
Interview with James Toback Writer and director James Toback talks to Zoe Morgan Chiswick about hypnosis and the art of interviewing a friend with a troubled past. by Zoë Morgan Chiswick

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