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Ask the Filmmaker: How Do You Write a Documentary?
22 Jan 2010

Ask the Filmmaker: How Do You Write a Documentary?

by David Licata | posted in: The Film | 0

A friend asked this question: “You credit yourself as the writer and director of A Life’s Work.” Are you going to have a voice over narrator reading text you wrote? Good question. You won’t hear Liev Schreiber or Morgan Freeman … Continued

A Life's Work, Questions?, writing
My Other Hat
19 Jan 2010

My Other Hat

by David Licata | posted in: Other Work | 0

Update: You can read the story here, on the blog. Last week I received the proofs from The Literary Review for a short story they’ll be publishing in Spring, 2010, in their Machismo(!) issue. Look for it on the newsstands … Continued

other obsessions, The Literary Review, There Is Joy Before the Angels of God, writing
“Will You Finish It in Your Lifetime?”
28 Dec 2009

“Will You Finish It in Your Lifetime?”

by David Licata | posted in: The Film | 12

Sometime during the fourth year of production of A Life’s Work I recognized how long this film was going to take to complete and a joke was born: I’m making a film about people who may not complete their work … Continued

A Life's Work, other obsessions, writing
"Congratulations from The Literary Review!"
1 Aug 2009

"Congratulations from The Literary Review!"

by David Licata | posted in: Other Work | 0

Below is an excerpt from an e-mail I sent to a good friend not too long. I guess I’m used to the stop and go nature of this film. A couple of months of intense preparation and shooting, then a … Continued

short stories, writing

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Filmed over 15 years in locations throughout the US, A LIFE'S WORK is a documentary about long-term thinking, a meditation on Deep Time, a film essay about legacy.

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