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MUCH THANKS! The Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council provided a grant to the IDA to purchase cameras for the Docs Rock program. All of us at the IDA and the high school students who are part of the Docs Rock program are thrilled for their support. Developed in conjunction with the Los Angeles Unified School District and the City of Los Angeles, Docs Rock is a two-semester program that introduces high school students to the world of documentary filmmaking. This unique program engages students in their educational studies, exposes them to the art form of documentary filmmaking, and prepares
And the winner is...'Woman Rebel.'
DocuWeeks™ 2011 Call for Entries REGULAR DEADLINE TOMORROW!
Next week! Join Richard Pearce, Joan Churchill, James Longley, Haskell Wexler to discuss doc cinematography
'Cave of Forgotten Dreams' opens April 29 through IFC Films.
South by Southwest's March film festival in Austin, Texas (town motto: "Keep Austin Weird") provides, for documentary lovers, an exciting mix of the provocative, the innovative and the downright quirky. And it does so in venues you can actually get to and get into. For documentarians, it also provides a sidebar conference with panels on cutting-edge issues. The festival, curated by Janet Pierson and her team, covers a wide range of styles and subjects, steering clear of the obligatory and earnest. Of course, as one of the more earnest attendees, I was drawn to the social documentaries
Morgan Spurlock's latest documentary, PomWonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, opens April 22 through Sony Pictures Classics. Like his Oscar-nominated Super Size Me, The Greatest Movie stars Spurlock as a gleeful, on-camera sociologist, but this time he's courting, rather than critiquing, Corporate America as he travels fromManhattan to Hollywood trying to land corporate sponsors...for a film about landing corporate sponsors. No one minds seeing Tony Stark blatantly eating a Whopper or driving an Audi, but no self-respecting documentary director would sink to having a famous social