spot.com.mentaryFlashback--A Perspective
May 17, 2013 -- Our ongoing, long-running Flashback feature looking back at SHOOT headlines five and 10 years ago provides perspective, a stroll down memory lane, and occasionally a chuckle or two as we see how things have changed or not changed, progressed or regressed.

spot.com.mentaryFestival Firsts
By Robert Goldrich
April 19, 2013 -- In our coverage of the film festival circuit, perhaps the most exciting developments involve artists who have broken new career ground, diversifying into new areas.

spot.com.mentaryShort and Sweet
By Robert Goldrich
March 22, 2013 -- Included in our series of Directors Profiles in this issue are three filmmakers who have won Oscars for their short film work--the husband and wife helming team of Sean and Andrea Fine who won this year's Best Short Subject Documentary Academy Award for INOCENTE; and Cynthia Wade, who won the Short Subject Documentary Oscar five years ago for Freeheld and was nominated again this year for Mondays at Racine.

spot.com.mentaryMeet The Nominees
By Robert Goldrich
February 22, 2013 -- In this issue of SHOOT, the fifth installment of our Road To Oscar series includes coverage of the DGA panel discussion "Meet The Feature Nominees."

spot.com.mentaryTo Your Health
By Robert Goldrich
January 25, 2013 -- An AICP road show was recently wrapped but it's not the one the industry has come to know. That well established event, of course, is the AICP Show and Next Awards which plays throughout the country and internationally to bring the very best work--and insights into that work on the Next side--to folks from all walks of the industry each year.

spot.com.mentaryTrending
By Robert Goldrich
December 14, 2012 -- Assuming that not even our sorry lot of politicians is inept enough to plummet us over the so-called fiscal cliff, the industry's attention--with 2012 drawing to a close--turns to what's in store for 2013.

spot.com.mentaryGobble Gobble Give
By Robert Goldrich
November 16, 2012 -- Even in these challenging and seemingly all too cynical and jaded times, there's much for those of us in the advertising and entertainment community to be thankful for.

spot.com.mentarySearching For Emerging
By Robert Goldrich
October 26, 2012 -- There's both inspiration and exasperation to be found in the search for emerging talent. Consider last month's International Cinematographers Guild's (ICG) Emerging Cinematographer Awards (ECA) which represent in many respects the sheer joy of discovery and providing opportunity, giving a boost to promising, aspiring cinematographers.

spot.com.mentaryThe Road To Emmy
By Robert Goldrich
September 21, 2012 -- In our multi-part The Road To Emmy series of feature stories these past few months, it became clear that in some very notable cases gratification over a project went well beyond gaining peer recognition via a nomination or even nominations.

spot.com.mentaryA Remembrance
By Robert Goldrich
August 17, 2012 -- Though I hadn't talked to him in some 10 years, I was saddened to learn of Ted Goetz's passing last month at the age of 84. Ted was one of the first people in the business I got to know when I joined this paper in the late 1970s.