It had been two days since the last day of the IFP Distribution Lab – ending the yearlong 2012 IFP Fellowship for 10 documentaries and 10 narrative films from first-time directors.  With two days left in New York, I found myself sitting in a small theater in Brooklyn looking nervously at the backs of heads.  A small handful of people had cruised over on this rainy Sunday for a test screening of my first feature documentary, Brave New Wild.   Every time a punchline went unheeded, I swigged a Dixie cup full of cheap red wine.  It’s very scary to show […]