Tom Davenport has lived most of his life on a farm nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. In his younger days, he ran the farm and made films — documentaries were his first love. He ...

When I first discovered the works of Jean Rouch, Robert Gardner, and Timothy Asch—academic anthropologists who opted to make films rather than books about their research subjects—my appreciation of ...

How certain things on the internet escape us for so long is a mystery. Case in point this time: Folkstreams, an online archive of rare American roots music documentaries created by filmmaker Tom ...

Filmmaker and Folkstreams founder Tom Davenport on Hollin Farm with Sarah Toth, a collaborator on his From the Brothers Grimm fairytale films. Tom Davenport has lived most of his life on a farm ...

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