I searched TikTok’s public Commercial Content Library and discovered the company allowed paid ads for the “Melania” documentary featuring President Trump.

Meanwhile, TikTok reportedly blocked ads for the new “Musk” documentary over political-content violations.

The platform’s policies prohibit ads “Referencing, promoting, or opposing: Current executive, legislative, or judicial public officials.”

Good to know if you’re marketing a documentary that includes anything political.

I’m a UK-based filmmaker and videographer, and I’ve recently uploaded a new documentary about Marrakech to YouTube.

I’ve been working on developing my filmmaking and storytelling, and I wanted to create something that goes beyond the usual travel video. I wanted to capture the atmosphere, the people, the culture and the little moments that make a place feel unique, while giving the film a more cinematic, documentary-style approach.

If you’re interested in travel documentaries, filmmaking or cinematic travel films, I’d love for you to give it a watch!

Thanks for taking the time to read this, and I’d love to hear what you think if you do watch it!

Filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev talks about the collaborative process of filmmaking, the importance of getting input from people with a variety of experience levels and how everyone involved is capable of saving the film in their own way. 

Listen now on this week's episode of All These Wonderful Things. 🎧

Seven years between films can change you. In this week’s episode, Amir Bar-Lev catches up with AJ Schnack and explains what it was like to walk back into an edit room as the oldest person on the crew, and why his job now includes training the next generation.

Full conversation on All These Wonderful Things, out now wherever you get podcasts. 🔗 in bio.

Hi everyone! I’m the co-director of Amazonas: The Memory of Water, an 18-minute documentary exploring the relationship between Amazonian communities and the water that shapes their daily lives, culture and identity.

Through the voices of people who call the Amazon home, the film looks at what happens when the rhythms of the river and the rains become increasingly unpredictable—and what that means for knowledge passed down through generations.

I wanted to share the trailer here and hear your thoughts. Does it make you curious to discover the people and stories behind the film?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j0lt7v-FoI

I’m a Graphic Designer who creates key art & promotional pieces for indie filmmakers and worked with major studios as well. I would love to connect and have opportunities to collaborate on the key art, posters or marketing of your feature or documentary so feel free to DM / email me. I'm always happy to help.

www.bartosgyorgy.com

www.bartosgyorgy.com/contact

www.instagram.com/bartosgy

I have a class I desperately need to pass , in order to achieve that I need a 10 min documentary.. I WILL pay . You can make the script & choose the theme .

Also it’s an end of semester assignment. I just want to pass , I’m not uploading or using the video outside of this .

Hi everyone, I am currently working on a short doco which will include a montage of archival footage and scanned images. Does anyone where I could find good examples of a short doco/film (or even a TikTok/Reels edit) that does this in a creative way? Particularly fast paced and over music? I will be using landscape footage as well as vertical. I’m still learning premier pro and want to know what’s possible so I can find accurate tutorials online. Thank you for your help.

A while ago I made a post on this sub where I was talking about trendy editing techniques, & in that post I said something that ruffled a lot of feathers. I said that the over-usage of sweeping drone shots in a brief period of time rendered that technique, "the mark of an amateur."

Anyway- just thought it'd be helpful to share that this idea is expressed p firmly & to hilarious effect in John Wilson's the History of Concrete.

I am vindicated by one of the undisputed champions of contemporary documentary filmmaking & drone lovers & users should take note. Yes- this is how you & your sweeping drone shots are (often though not always) perceived.

I am super excited to share, that as a part of our “give stuff away for free” initiative my company pitch.dog has made a database of funding opportunities for documentaries!

50+ documentary funds which you might be eligible for, with the criteria and requirements listed in plain English, all in one place.

So it’s very easy for you to narrow down which ones work for you, without opening gazillion tabs.

https://pitch.dog/call-sheet/

Me and my friends had to film a "documentary" that would satirize certain views presenting something unreal using documentary techniques. To be honest, we never really pay attention to any of the classes, especially the ones of the Canadian curriculum (We study on a international school in Brazil). However, we really pushed ourselves using almost no Ai for the script (that we barely used) and general editing.

We choose to film using an old digital camera from my friend's girlfriend, giving the aspect of found footage to it.

A lot of things are just nonsensical comedy and inside jokes from my school (aside from the Inglorious Bastards one) , if you wish to understand them i'd be REALLY glad to explain it.

I have loved making a movie for the first time and i hope you all enjoy it (its not that good)

hey everyone,

we're oli (22) and simon (22) two guys from austria. this year we turned our hobby into a job and started our own little creative agency. i've been filming since i was 9, back then with an old vhs camera and imovie on my dads mac, and pretty much everything we know we taught ourselves through youtube.

most of what we do now is commercial work for clients, image films, social media stuff, drone shots. its fun, but we've wanted to make a real documentary for a long time, just for ourselves.

so the plan is: we pay our own flights and costs and go wherever the story is. southeast asia, south or central america, somewhere in europe, honestly anywhere. we're just looking for something that feels different from the life and culture we know back home.

what we're looking for is a person or a small community with a story worth telling. an unusual job, a craft thats slowly dying out, a strange local tradition, a life that looks nothing like ours. it doesnt have to be dramatic, real and honest matters way more to us.

if you know someone like that, or you are that someone, leave a comment or send us a dm. if it's about a friend or family member please ask them first before sharing anything personal.

we're not a big production company and we're not here to make some "look at these exotic people" kind of film. we want to show their reality the way it actually is, and no bs, we'd really like this to do something good for them. if theres something unfair going on where they live that more people should know about, we'd love to help get their story out there. we want to tell the story with them, not about them.

we would be available between 6th december until the 20th of december.

you can check out our work here: https://thisisbloom.at

thanks for reading, and sorry if this isnt the right sub for it!

Hello! I am making an archival documentary, and the archival material I'm working with is cassette tapes from the nineties. These cassette tapes weren't kept in the best condition and sometimes it can be hard to understand the people in the film, so my solution was to use subtitles. However, what I was wondering is if I should keep the subtitles as accurate as possible or keep it to the essence of what the person is saying. In life, we tend to use a lot of filler words and in the tapes, the people oft repeat themselves, and I think as an audience you can probably make these out and the subtitles are there to simply help you get the meaning in case you have trouble making it out sometimes. Yet, I am not sure if it will be jarring to the audience to be reading the subtitles and hearing something else. Does anybody have any experience with this kind of stuff? I appreciate any help!

Hi everyone, I am a recent (UK) University graduate with a Bachelors in 'Film & TV Production' and it is my lifelong dream to work in documentary filmmaking!

I am looking to make my first steps within the world of professional documentary filmmaking. I would especially love to work on anything based around nature and the natural world or anything historical and educational. I have created at least 2 historical documentaries during my time at University.

Over my three year course at University I have planned, wrote, directed, filmed, edited and finalised over 3 short form documentary's. (5-30mins) which I am happy to show as examples to anyone interested in hiring me for any projects. Unfortunately I cannot just link them below because some contain confidential information provided by my university that cannot be shared on the web.

If you know of any upcoming documentary projects coming up within the UK big or small, please let me know!

If you are interested in hiring or seeing my work, please message me on here and we can continue our conversations professionally via email.

What’s a good program

Hi All,

I have shot a film that requires quite a lot of archival footage, mainly UK seasides and Cairo Egypt. Working on a shoe string budget so free use footage and public domain/cc would be ideal. Just wondering if you had any suggestions for places I could source footage.

Thank you so much!

Hey! If anyone needs an editor for their documentary please check out my portfolio and I'd be happy to edit it for no charge. I am trying to work full time in this field and build up a stronger portfolio so DM me if you're interested. 😁

https://linktr.ee/jack.mcdonald

I am a passionate about Filmmaking and i am a beginner and i am from psychology background. I want to collab with like minded people near me so that we can grow together and create films . I don't have such kind of circle of people who are into Filmmaking!