Stunned and frightened, Alessandro Ibiapina accompanied his mother into a bleak São Paulo, Brazil police station on the evening of January 27, 2008. Only four hours before, Jose Ibiapina--Alessandro's father--had been abducted by a small group of thugs while at work. There inside the station, headquarters to DAS (Divisão Anti-Sequestro), or Anti-Kidnapping Division, sat Dario Dezem patiently waiting. Wearing a DAS t-shirt, he may have appeared to be a policeman, but in fact he was the primary cameraman working on Jorge Atalla's documentary Sequestro (Kidnapping). Living across the street from
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provides funding for PSA about Docs Rock.
The 2007 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Courtesy of San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau The San Francisco Bay Area has long been known as the mecca for documentary filmmaking. Ever since the early '60s, when smaller and lighter 16mm film cameras enabled portability and the turbulent political climate provided a tableau, documentarians found themselves recording history. "It was, ‘Grab a camera and film the revolution," Gail Silva remembers. "A lot of the burgeoning documentary stuff had to do with the political times." Silva is San Francisco's doyenne of independent film. Formerly the head of San Francisco's Film Arts
IDA receives grant from the City of Los Angeles' Department of Cultural Affairs in support of Docs Rock.
Generous grants provided by the L.A. County Arts Commission and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
An interview with Robinson Devore, maker of 'Zoo.'
From Gary Leva's Fog CIty Mavericks The San Francisco International Film Festival is celebrating its 50th birthday this year. And the oldest film festival in the Americas is marking the anniversary by looking back, looking forward and celebrating Bay Area filmmakers. The backward look, which has actually been going on for several years, went into high gear over the past year, as a treasure trove of nuggets from the festival's history have been posted on its website: a database of listings of films shown, awards and guests; historical photos and articles based on the vast archive of festival