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
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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
South by Southwest (you write it SXSW, you say it "South-by") makes a credible claim to showcase innovation in the overlap between geekery/gaming, filmmaking and music. It has become the most exciting festival for edgy, overlap creative experience in those fields in the country. And it reached, unbelievably, a new intensity this year. Crowds routinely overwhelmed services. On opening day, people stood in three-hour lines for badges; rush hour within the Austin Convention Center was every hour on the changeover between panels; there were more food options than before, but even longer lines for
From any other filmmaker, Bay of All Saints would have been a completely different film. Someone who had not spent time among the residents of the notorious water slums in Bahia, Brazil might have set their stories to somber music to match the extreme poverty captured on film. An outsider might have focused on the government's struggle of eradicating the palafitas—stilt houses built on the water—highlighting their hard work and exalting their attempts to stave off poverty and inadequate housing in the region. In the hands of anyone else, this story would not give weight to the have-nots. But