At SXSW panels, you can get the headlines of business trends that overlap techie and filmmaker interests, if you can sift through the hype, the self-promotion, the glib reductionism and relentless branding. This year, the standard "convergence" panels featured issues of overlapping interest, particularly around changing television business models. The big growth area of interest was the "digital domain," or interactive documentary strand, where for the second year, crowds demonstrated that SXSW has to relocate the strand from the tiny room it's given. New this year was a Participant Media
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'Anita' opens in theaters March 21 through Samuel Goldwyn Films.
At the annual high-tech attentional food fight that is SXSW, you could see Google Glass-wearers, a Wookie, a flock of foldup bikes, food trucks, an entire portable showroom dedicated to (yes) toilet paper, and...what am I forgetting? Oh, the movies! The standout documentary film of the festival and winner of the Grand Jury Prize, The Great Invisible, was one of several films focusing on ecological issues. Margaret Brown's cinema vérité look at the consequences of the 2010 BP oil spill on the people most directly affected brought audiences in Austin—at the heart of the oil industry—to their
The American Film Showcase in Israel and Palestinian Territories.
When filmmaker Frank Pavich took the stage to introduce his film Jodorowsky's Dune on the opening night of the True/False Festival, he looked out at the crowd in the 1,200-seat Missouri Theater and beamed. "I'm completely blown away," said Pavich. "I've been to Cannes, Toronto and Telluride, but within a few hours of being here, I feel so welcomed by this amazing community." Director Frank Pavich (right) and editor Alex Ricciardi following the screening of their film Jodorowsky's Dune. Photo: Sarah Hoffman A few days later, Tracy Droz Tragos, co-director with her cousin, Andrew Droz Palermo
The new dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition comes out March 18.
What happens after you’ve finally finished that amazing film you worked on for years? You want to sell it, of course. You want to find a way to get it out there and earn what you know it’s worth. But where do you start? Who do you take it to? With Preferred Content's Managing Partner Kevin Iwashina at the helm, we brought together an expert panel including top sales agents Josh Braun of Submarine (US sales) and Annie Roney of ro*co (international sales), as well as David Magdael (publicist), to give you a few insider dos and don'ts for selling your documentary. DO find the right match
Here comes the sun—and, with it, the Spring 2014 issue of Documentary magazine!
20 Feet from Stardom, Morgan Neville's celebration of the dynamic singers behind some of the the greatest hits in rock ‘n' roll, took the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, while The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved my Life secured the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject. In praising Alice Herz Sommer, the late subject of The Lady in Number 6, director Malcolm Clarke noted, "She had an extraordinary capacity for joy and an amazing capacity for forgiveness... She was 110, she died quietly, and so this is for her. She was a woman who taught every one of my crew to be a little but more
'The Square' screens at 5:00 p.m. at IDA's DocuDay.