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'Cutie and the Boxer' opens in theaters August 16 through RADiUS-TWC.
The fall granting cycle is right around the corner so we've listed a few opportunities that we think will be of interest to you. As with every funding application, be sure to read over the guidelines and requirements carefully to make sure your documentary is a good fit prior to applying. If you have questions along the way, contact a grant officer at the organization. They're there to help you determine if your film is right for the grant and to answer questions about the application process itself. Remember that
It might not be until after you’re done in the field and have wrapped your interviews that you realize you’ll need some extra footage you just can’t capture yourself. Want shots of a bustling street in downtown Detroit during the 1950s? Need some footage of women playing golf in college in the 1930s? With a little digging, odds are that you can find someone who has already shot those images. So off we go to the archives! But where to start? And how to find the right archive for your project? With resources available everywhere from university libraries to small town basements, finding those
Stephen Parr, founder of Oddball Film & Video. Courtesy of Stephen Parr Perhaps the most notable changes in film archives and stock footage libraries over the last quarter-century mirror the changes in other retail businesses. The mom-and-pop stores have mostly vanished or consolidated. But there are a host of small "boutique" archives out there that can offer a more personal user experience, with each collection reflecting the personality and personal interests of the archivist. Oddball Film & Video, as its name suggests, specializes in offbeat, rare and eclectic footage. The San Francisco
What draws acclaim to the prize-winning documentary In Good Conscience: Sister Jeannine Gramick's Journey of Faith is not so much its surface anti-Catholicism as the realization that the protagonist of the film is a proponent of mankind in the new millennium. Veteran broadcast journalist Barbara Rick, who has earned a Peabody and Emmy Award over the years, was initially motivated to make the film having read a news story about a nun who ministered to gays and lesbians and was being silenced by the Roman Catholic Church. As a Catholic woman, Rick had often felt like a second-class citizen in
A review of the book 'Cinemas of the World: Film and Society from 1985 to the Present'
From 99%—The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film. Photo: Alex Franklin. Courtesy ov Sundance Film Festival Toward the end of 2012, the documentary community heard a number of major announcements coming out of the television space that raised hopes that the independent documentary would have more homes, beyond the august stalwarts HBO and PBS. In short order, CNN announced the launch of CNN Films; Participant Media acquired The Documentary Channel and Halogen TV, with the intent of creating a TV presence; Al Jazeera acquired Current TV, thereby gaining a valuable foothold in the US market
All of us at the IDA are thrilled to have FirstCom Music and Brooks Institute as sponsors of our newest program, the IDA Documentary Screening Series, launching this Fall at the Landmark Theater in Los Angeles, CA. The IDA Documentary Screening Series is invitation-only screenings of fifteen documentary features that will take place annually between September and January. "At Brooks Institute, we provide a learning experience that attracts a diverse student body of aspiring professionals with one common goal: to pursue careers in the visual, new media, and communication arts," explains Gail
"Students who enter the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Documentary Program are students who understand that they have a love for nonfiction, no matter if they work in print, radio, television, documentary or new media," says Berkeley Professor and Director of the Documentary Program Jon Else. This is echoed by alumnus filmmaker Sam Green (Class of 1993), producer and director of the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Weather Underground: "I went to Berkeley to write for a national magazine and I fell in love with making documentaries." Other students join