Filmmaker Doug Block on Film Courage (Ep. #126)

Mon, 2011-08-22 17:51 — Filmcourage

Filmmaker Doug Block skypes into Film Courage to tell us whether it is a realistic goal for independent filmmakers to think they can make a living off of their films, how his film 51 Birch Street got into the Toronto International Film Festival, how the path to distribution differed on his latest film The Kids Grow Up, and why he founded the community site The D-Word for documentary filmmakers.

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