Documentary Media by Andrew R. Cline, PhD

06/06/2026

This young Portuguese is one of the first people I met in in the Portuguese scene. He's talented. He'll be filming a new story in July and could use a little help. It's an especially cool story if you love and ;-) Check it out:

A lonely man helps a stranger in distress look for her lost dog, hoping it will mark the beginning of an unlikely romance.

02/06/2026

I enjoy being stuck in the past :-) More in my series of my visual style in mentioning the influence of my (stills) experience on my

I began my career as a newspaper photojournalist working first as an intern during the summers while in college in the mid to late 1970s. My newspaper career wa

05/05/2026

Here is the official trailer for Os Marnotos (The Saltworkers). While the term "official" has the sound of hilarious pomposity, it's actually a film term that indicates something real. It means the trailer conforms to the film in terms of visuals, audio, graphics.

This is the official trailer for Os Marnotos.The film examines the working lives of a family -- three generations -- that works one of "marinhas" on the estu...

24/03/2026

Putting together a press kit for a screening of four short films by four filmmakers from . I live here, so I count :-) More information on the screening after we get things together. Until then, follow me on YouTube and Instagram (both: ).

14/12/2025

More lessons in documentary photography :-)

So what is a good documentary photograph? Take a look at this one. It's good. The evaluation of a photograph as good, or something less than good, must take its

12/12/2025

When you start doing things like visual tests in editing, you know you're really in post-production ;-)

I am now in post-production with Os Marnotos, my documentary short about salt work in Aveiro, Portugal. This video is part of my visual style testing. I've d...

11/12/2025

Apparently I'm trendy :-)

My Fujifilm X-E1 rangefinder is beat to s**t. I've dropped it numerous time. I even broke a fall with it during a hike while using the monopod it was on as a wa

08/12/2025

Another in my series about visual style. More re: Terrence Malick.

In the previous installment of this series I asked what happens when you run the well-worn narrative framework of sequence filming through the decisive moment a

06/12/2025

Slowly, I continue my Documentary 101 series on Frame by Frame.

Is news photography also documentary photography? Yes. News photography documents the immediate news situation. Shortly thereafter it is history. That's a rathe

13/11/2025

I finally settled on a bumper for eyewitness:

I have settled on a bumper for eyewitness for 2026 and maybe beyond. You can see it already in action on the Gigantes Verdes concept video. This one, unlike ...