My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with. Filmmaking is hard and lonely and decidedly unglamorous. Find like-minded souls and share the joy and the misery.
I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit in the first row with no hea… - Pamela Yates
I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit in the first row with no hea…
- Pamela Yates
When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out. - Pamela Yates
When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.
I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change. - Pamela Yates
I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.
Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect. - Pamela Yates
Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.
If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder. - Pamela Yates
If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder.
My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with. Filmmaking is hard an… - Pamela Yates
My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with. Filmmaking is hard an…
The biggest misconception about me and my work is that I only make political films denouncing human-rights atrocities, even though all of my films ar… - Pamela Yates
The biggest misconception about me and my work is that I only make political films denouncing human-rights atrocities, even though all of my films ar…
I believe that those who believe in the power of human rights must find new ways to address economic injustice - and on a scale commensurate with the… - Pamela Yates
I believe that those who believe in the power of human rights must find new ways to address economic injustice - and on a scale commensurate with the…
I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema and documentaries. - Pamela Yates
I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema and documentaries.
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