Introduction
Chapter 1: The Discovery Phase
Chapter 2: Building the Launch Pad
Chapter 3: Integrity as Guide
Chapter 4: On Set
Chapter 5: Sourced and Additional Materials
Chapter 6: Revisions: Responding to Obstacles and Embracing Change
Chapter 7: Putting it Together
Chapter 8: Now Playing
Chapter 9: Before You Go Big
Chapter 10: Talking the Talk: A Documentarian’s Guide to Terminology
Appendix
Biography
Julie Casper Roth is Associate Professor at CT State‑Norwalk and an Emmy‑nominated, award‑winning filmmaker whose work has been shown on PBS, at film festivals, and in venues around the world. She’s a two‑time Sundance Screenwriters Lab finalist and has won grant and fellowship awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and the College Art Association. She has taught documentary filmmaking at Skidmore College, the University at Albany, and in community workshops.






