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Our final funder joins us from the California Council for the Humanities.
Built two years ago to provide the Toronto International Film Festival organization with a perennial headquarters, and the Canadian city with a muscular independent showcase, the TIFF Bell Lightbox is redolent of the isolating quirks of festival-going. Office-like and rectangularly prismatic, with three stories of theaters, the building's amenities are strangely conducive to hyper-personalized experience. The escalators are narrow; the slim, cushioned leisure benches placed on each floor barely accommodate two adults. The walls and windows form an overwhelming, almost smarting whiteness to
The CIA's Predator drone missile strike that killed the American-born al Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen last month set off a heated discussion in policy circles about whether it was legal to attack a US citizen. A spate of editorials and articles demanding the release of the secret presidential finding justifying the use of lethal force has gained some traction among pundits, the ACLU and others, but has been met with a big yawn from the public. (The October 9th edition of The New York Times reported on the contents of the legal memorandum, by the Justice Department's Office of Legal
Special preview screening of Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Michael C. Donaldson, former IDA President, is an entertainment attorney based in Los Angeles and is the author of Clearances and Copyright You may recall that the IDA joined a number of other independent film organizations to work with the US Copyright bOffice on the knotty problem of "orphan works." Orphan works are works that you believe are protected by copyright; you may even believe that you have the name of the owner, but you can't find the owner of the work. So you are left with the uncomfortable choice of not using the material in your film or taking the risk of using the film and the
'Dragonslayer' opens November 4 in New York and Los Angeles.
The Director of Feature Programming at TFI joins Doc U: Focus on Funding.
Over the next couple of weeks, we at IDA will be introducing our community to the filmmakers whose work will be represented in the DocuWeek TM Theatrical Documentary Showcase, August 18-24. We asked the filmmakers to share the stories behind their films--the inspirations, the challenges and obstacles, the goals and objectives, the reactions to their films so far. So, to continue this series of conversations, here are Yoni Brook, director/producer, and Musa Syeed, producer, of A Son's Sacrifice. Synopsis: A Son's Sacrifice follows the journey of Imran, a young American Muslim who confronts his
'Herman's House' premieres in theaters April 19, 2013 through First Run Features.