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May 26, 2005
Doc filmmakers have a lot more freedom: Barbara Kopple
Barbara Kopple talks about her newest, the co-directed Bearing Witness, about five female war correspondents, in a Q&A with Rob Nelson in City Pages: "Most people in this country have never experienced war firsthand. And the mainstream media rarely if ever attempts to show them what it might be like. So sometimes it's up to documentary filmmakers to try to answer or at least expose the important questions—because we have a lot more freedom. The trade-off is that it's harder to get the work seen: You have to find someone to distribute it, you have to do grassroots organizing to get the word out. It's never easy. But if you have a film that really says something, you figure out other strategies. Look at Outfoxed, for example: That film sold something like 100,000 copies on DVD with the help of moveon.org. You just have to make the film and then get it out any way you can... I just try to tell the best story I can. I make each film as if it could be my last--so I'd better do it well."
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