I just got back from St. Petersburg, Florida from the Poynter Institute’s seminar on “Becoming an Entrepreneurial Journalist.” It was an intense, week-long course on how-to-write a business plan, how to start a business, social media, and all the things you need to know to, well - to start a business. I met 18 of the most fascinating and talented journalists in the country - each with their own business dreams and plans. I can’t tell you what their business plans are, but I can tell you about the journalist…or in this case, the film maker.

Juanita Anderson is a veteran producer/director and executive producer of public television programming and independent media. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Studies at Wayne State University. Between 1982 and 1993 her work as managing producer of two of the longest running African American community based public television series - Detroit Black Journal and Say Brother (Boston), was awarded seven Emmys in public affairs, cultural affairs and documentary programming. Her work as a documentary executive producer also garnered a 1988 DuPont Columbia Silver Baton and a George Foster Peabody Award. A co-founder of the National Black Programming Consortium and board member of the Independent Television Service from 1998 to 2005, she has maintained a career-long commitment to the authentic representation of America’s diverse community voices in public media.

So, credentials aside we talked a lot all week - mostly about businesses, business plans and journalism. We’ve partnered to create a short ebook to answer the top 10 questions new film makers ask. But we need your questions. What do YOU most want to know about film making, documentaries etc.? Please just post your question in the comment’s section of this blog post. It can be a technical question, a script-writing question or anything related to documentaries. We’ll post the answers and the book here. So ask away!