The leading online community of documentary professionals worldwide.
The D-Word began in 1996 as a series of online journal entries that I kept up for 3 years depicting the joy and angst of making and selling my feature documentary, Home Page. It was meant to inform, inspire, humor and depress the hell out of working or aspiring documentary filmmakers, or anyone else interested in the filmmaking process, for that matter.
After Home Page went into distribution in 1999, The D-Word evolved into a virtual community and its focus shifted to hosting free discussions on documentary film and production, as well as all other matters in life as seen from a "D-Worder's" perspective. Now everyone could inform, inspire, humor and depress the hell out of each other!
Since that time, entirely through word-of-mouth, The D-Word has grown to become the pre-eminent online community for documentary filmmakers, currently numbering more than 25,000 members from 164 countries. Registering for "Professional" membership is free and easy peasy. HERE’S HOW.
Ever since April of 2000, the start of the pandemic, The D-Word has hosted free virtual F2Fs on Zoom with its members every Friday from 12 noon to 1:30pm ET. Networking F2Fs alternate with ones featuring special guest experts which we record for our D-Word YouTube channel. CLICK HERE to access our library of over 100 recordings.