The Creative Recognition Awards honor creative achievement in documentary filmmaking.
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This award recognizes films that demonstrate exemplary filmmaking while focusing on the appropriate use of the natural environment, justice for all and the illumination of pressing social problems. The Last MountainDirector: Bill HaneyProducers: Clara Bingham, Eric Grunebaum, Bill HaneyExecutive Producers: Tim Disney, Sarah Johnson Redlich, Tim RockwoodCinematographers: Jerry Risius, Stephen McCarthyWriters: Bill Haney, Peter RhodesEditor: Peter RhodesComposer: Claudio RagazziUncommon Productions, Dada Films, New Video The fight for the last great mountain in America's heartland pits a mining
September means back to school, and MTVN's Logo and the Sundance Channel are no exception. TransGeneration, which premieres September 20 on the Sundance Channel, follows the daily lives of four college students who are going through a gender transition. The series will air on Logo in the beginning of 2006. Filmed over the course of the 2004-05 school year, the eight-part series delves into four students' challenges with academic and campus life as they move forward with their commitment to gender reassignment. The diversity of the film's four subjects is notable. They include Gabbi, a very
As Los Angeles is synonymous in our minds with the film industry, New York, although with less fanfare, is the predominant center of cable--and, arguably the hub for documentary programming. With the exception of such major networks as Discovery Channel, National Geographic and CNN, most cable networks that produce or acquire documentaries are headquartered in or around New York City. Think about it: There's HBO, one of the first cable networks and the leader in documentary programming, Bravo, The History Channel, A&E Network, IFC, Sundance Channel, CourtTV, MTV Networks, Trio and the list
> Nancy Wilkman, who served as editor of Documentary magazine (then called International Documentary) for 16 issues through the early 1990s, passed away on April 3 at age 72.. She had struggled with cancer. In addition to her work with the magazine, Wilkman carved out a distinguished career in journalism, communications and, over the past 30 years, in collaboration with her husband, former IDA Board President Jon Wilkman, documentary filmmaking. She served as writer, producer and/or story editor on nearly all of Wilkman Productions' television programs, which aired on PBS, HBO, A&E and The
'Jesse Owens' airs May 1 on PBS' 'American Experience.'
Join us at the Cinefamily on Wednesday, April 18 for stylistic strategies in non-fiction storytelling.
The National Endowment for the Arts announced Monday its plans to cut over $1 million of funding to arts programming.
'First Position' opens in theaters May 4 through Sundance Selects.
Film festivals devoted to a full spectrum of environmental topics did not exist in the United States until 1993, the inaugural year of the DC Environmental Film Festival (EFF; official name: Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capitol). This once niche-interest festival has expanded from 1,200 attendees to over 30,000 this year on its 20th anniversary. "The festival is organically and incrementally growing, which is a testament to interest in documentary and in the environment," says Executive Director Peter O'Brien. Since its inception, the DC Environmental Film Festival has helped