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The opening night gala for this year's Human Rights Watch International Film Festival looked more like a Hollywood premiere than any prior festival

When I first saw Ellen Bruno's film, Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy, at the National Educational Media Network's 1994 screenings (it was called the

Each year since 1978, an international group of independent filmmakers, public television producers and commissioning editors have gathered together

In the past few years, reality-based programs such as Cops, Unsolved Mysteries, America's Most Wanted and others have garnered precious airtime and

The co-founders of Northeast Historic Film (NHF) became video distributors by accident. In 1986, David Weiss and Karan Sheldon had completed a 30-min

The aftermath of the American Civil War was the backdrop for a mythic American movie character, Scarlett O'Hara, who found herself adrift amidst

Women Make Movies (WMM) is a nonprofit media arts organization that facilitates the production, dissemination and exhibition of independent films by

Direct Cinema Limited, founded in 1974 as an educational media distributor, has been selling home videos since the mid-1980s. In the past five years

California Newsreel, a media arts center and nonprofit distributor of films on African-American themes, created the Library of African Cinema in 1991

Fanlight Productions has produced and distributed independent film and video since 1980, specializing in health, mental health, disability and family