tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59703847567946296042024-11-08T10:36:18.492-05:00Experiences and insights of a director of non-fiction filmsGino Del Guerciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00774249341987978709noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970384756794629604.post-86675267493921582762008-01-18T09:18:00.000-05:002008-01-18T10:18:50.272-05:00

How many factual filmmakers have fallen under the spell of Robert Mckee, prolific screenwriting workshop guru and author of Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting?In his book and workshops, Mckee deconstructs many of Hollywood's most famous films and shows how most follow a similar structure, what is known in the industry as "high concept." Basically, the

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Recently I've been reading Liz Stubbs' book Documentary Filmmakers Speak, which is excellent by the way. It's a collection of interviews with factual filmmakers, including Ross McElwee, which I read last night. McElwee makes interesting and funny personal documentaries, the most famous of which is Sherman's March, about his search for love in the South. (Talk about bizarre people.)In the

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Sometimes things just go right.For Robert Stone that moment came when he was directing his first documentary, Radio Bikini, which is about the US military tests of the Hydrogen bomb on the tiny Pacific atoll of Bikini in 1946.While interviewing Stone for my new book, he told me the following story:He was conducting his first interview for this first film--with a sailor named John Smitherman, who

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My name is Gino Del Guercio, and I've been making documentary films for the past 21 years. Some of the documentaries I've worked on that you may have heard of are: Nerds 2.0.1, Red Gold, and Transistorized. I specialize in science, medicine and technology. Most of my work has appeared on either PBS, The Discovery Channel, or A&E.I'm currently finishing a 90 minute feature called Abandoned in

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