Welcome to IDA's 13th Annual DocuWeeks™ Theatrical Documentary Showcase

Since its debut in 1997, Docuweeks™ has presented over 133 short and feature length documentaries to appreciative audiences in theatrical runs designed to qualify the films for consideration for the Academy Award.®

This year we have expanded our DocuWeeks™ showcase from one to three weeks. From July 31 through August 20 in both Los Angeles and New York, DocuWeeks™ will present 18 feature films and 10 short films from the United States, Russia, Australia, Nepal, Zambia, the United Kingdom, France and Norway. We invite you to sit back and be informed, enlightened and moved by these and all of the other great films in this year’s line up, as we proudly present our selection of some of the most accomplished and groundbreaking documentary films being made today.

Download Program Guide PDFs: DocuWeeks™ Los Angeles Program, DocuWeeks™ New York Program

PRESENTING SPONSOR:

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Free NET World would like to invite filmmakers from around the world to submit films:

Fiction: drama and comedy, documentary, shorts, music video, animations and experimental

Awards:
Free NET World Open Movie Award (the best film award)
Special audience award
most technically innovative film award
the best script award

To be eligible the films must be:
produced after the 1st of January 2006;
less than 30 minutes in length;
subtitled in the English language, unless the dialog is in English;

Theme: open theme

Entry Procedure: The entry forms with all required information with copy of film have to be sent to us until 5th of August.2009. There are no limits for number of films that people will submit!

Video preview formats: HDV, DV, mini DV, DVD. The screening copy of the film that must be made available to the festival can be in the following formats, in PAL: HDV, DVCAM, miniDV, DVD.

Download entry form here.

Selection and Notification: As we expect to receive several hundred submissions we regret that we can only write to the selected filmmakers. If you have not heard from us by 15st of August 2009 please assume that you have not been successful this time.

Costs: The applicant is responsible for the costs of sending copy!

Mail:
“FREE NET WORLD”– for festival purpose only.
Address: 8 Heroj Pop Mica– 18000 Nis – Serbia

Annotation on the package: "NO COMMERCIAL VALUE; CULTURAL PURPOSES ONLY"

Or send us download link for your video.

Location Name:  Nish, Serbia

The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) seeks provocative and engaging project proposals from independent media producers. We provide funding for Asian American film and media projects through our Media Fund initiatives which are made possible with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Projects should be intended for public television broadcast.

OPEN DOOR COMPLETION FUND Deadline: 8/6/09 by 5pm Pacific*

For projects at post-production phase. To be eligible, a full length rough cut must be submitted with the proposal. Awards average $20,000 to $30,000 and CAAM funds should be the last monies needed to finish the project.

To apply visit the Media Fund website at: http://mediafund.asianamericanmedia.org

* PLEASE NOTE: Deadlines are not postmark deadlines.

Location Name:  Center for Asian American Media

Address: 145 Ninth Street, Suite 350, San Francisco, CA 94103-2641

Contact:  Joanna Chin

The acclaimed new documentary film BEING JEWISH IN FRANCE will have its Los Angeles-area premiere in a limited theatrical run at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), from August 7 through August 9, 2009.

Screening times are:
Friday, August 7 at 7:30 pm;
Saturday, August 8 at 3:30 pm & 7:30 pm
Sunday, August 9 at 1:00pm

Yves Jeuland's sweeping new documentary explores the rich and complex history of Jews in France, the first country to grant them citizenship. Beginning with Revolutionary cries of "Vive la France" in Yiddish, the film explores the explosive Dreyfus Affair, the Vichy government's collaboration with the Nazis, and the absorption of Sephardic Jews from Arab countries in the decades after WWII. With interviews with more than a dozen leading French politicians, intellectuals, and artists-amid a treasure trove of archival material-Being Jewish in France masterfully interweaves human testimony and historical evidence. Narrated by Mathieu Almaric, a regular in Arnaud Desplechin's films and the star of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the film won the Jewish Experience Award at the Jerusalem International Film Festival.

 

 

Location Name:  LACMA

Address: 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

AsoloArtFilmFestival Student Hub
New!!

August 28 - September 6, 2009
Message addressed to all students from all over the world

Are you a student between 18 and 26 year old?
Would you like to share with other students your passion for cinema and art?
We are looking forward to create an intercultural platform to exchange ideas,
projects in a totally new creative setting inspired from the local tradition.

Participate at the XXVIII edition of AsoloArtFilmFestival!

Contact us, places are limited!
For interested students we will offer free accommodation by filling out and forwarding the attached form to:
ospitalita@asolofilmfestival.it.

For more information please contact us at: +39 0423 1995235-36

By the 10 August 2009

AsoloArtFilmFestival launches a new initiative addressed to Italian and foreign students interested in the XXVIII edition of the festival as well as the lands of Giorgione, Andrea Palladio, Paolo Veronese, Lorenzo Lotto, Antonio Canova, Robert Browning, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Eleonora Duse, Carlo Scarpa, Freya Starkand and many others.
www.asolo.it

Directed and Produced by Dori Berinstein, Gotta Dance is an award-winning film capturing the exhilarating adventures of the first-ever senior citizen hip-hop dance team for the New Jersey Nets Basketball Team!

Cast Performance & Reception to follow

TO RSVP or for questions: 323.988.5613 or contact@bigtimetoday.com

For more information about Gotta Dance: http://www.gottadancethemovie.com

Location Name:  The Academy’s Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study

Address: 1313 Vine St., Hollywood, CA

Contact:  323.988.5613 or contact@bigtimetoday.com

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute (SFI) has been in contact with a number of documentary filmmakers over the past years, all of whom have been involved in the creation of documentaries or film projects dealing with the topic of genocide. These filmmakers have interviewed survivors and/or witnesses of these genocides, footage of which has often been substantially included into their respective films. While clips are taken from these interviews to weave into a film’s narrative, the interviews as a whole often remain intact in a filmmaker’s collection of footage. The value of these interviews or testimonies potentially goes above and beyond the documentary for which they have been created. For example, they may be of value to secondary and/or post-secondary education whether it is scholarly research of particular genocides or tolerance teaching.

This panel discussion with a strong audience participatory Q & A session will revolve around issues related to interviewing genocide survivors, the circumstances in which such interviews take place, the logistical as well as political issues filmmakers encounter when conducting them. Questions pertaining to copyright issues, ethical and moral concerns about the use of these testimonies and concerns for the individuals that give the testimony, as well as long-term preservation of and access to these materials would also be surfaced in the conversation. The discussion will culminate around the role these testimonies can play that may go beyond the documentary or film project for which they may have been produced.

Panel participants not only come from different creative backgrounds and played different roles in the creation of the various works, but their films and work also represent a range of different genocides such as the Holocaust, the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979, the Rwandan genocide of 1994, the genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-1995), and the genocide in Darfur (2003-).

The participants are (alphabetical order): Anne Aghion (NYC), Ted Braun (LA), Andi Gitow (Panel Moderator) (NYC), James Moll (LA), Socheata Poeuv (New Haven).

Location Name:  University of Southern California

Address: 835 W 37th St., Los Angeles, CA

Tel: 213.740.2950

Contact:  RSVP to Amber Mirafuentes at mirafuen@usc.edu or 213.740.2950

The Way We Get By will be opening theatrically Aug. 14-20 at the Laemmle's Music Hall in Beverly Hills.

The Way We Get By is offering a free ticket to any opening weekend screening of the film (August 14th - 16th) to active service members, military veterans, and senior citizens 65 and older. Free tickets are while supplies last.

Click here for more info about the free tickets. 

The SXSW Special Jury Award winning The Way We Get By is a deeply moving film about life and how to live it. Beginning as a seemingly idiosyncratic story about troop greeters--a group of senior citizens who gather daily at a small airport to thank American soldiers departing and returning from Iraq, the film quickly turns into a moving, unsettling and compassionate story about aging, loneliness, war and mortality.

When its three subjects aren't at the airport, they wrestle with their own problems: failing health, depression, mounting debt. Joan, a grandmother of eight, has a deep connection to the soldiers she meets. The sanguine Jerry keeps his spirits up even as his personal problems mount. And the veteran Bill, who clearly has trouble taking care of himself, finds himself contemplating his own death. Seeking out the telling detail rather than offering sweeping generalizations, the film carefully builds stories of heartbreak and redemption, reminding us how our culture casts our elders, and too often our soldiers, aside. More important, regardless of your politics, The Way We Get By celebrates three unsung heroes who share their love with strangers who need and deserve it.

 

Location Name:  Laemmle's Music Hall

Address: 9036 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA

EARTH DAYS a new film by Robert Stone
Opens in NY August 14, 2009 @ The Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street
Opens in Los Angeles August 21, 2009 @ Laemmle Monica 4, Santa Monica & Laemmle Sunset 5, West Hollywood
Opens nationwide September 11, 2009

About the film:
"A rapturous and enlightening testament to what the environmental movement
has meant in America, and to why it now means more than ever."
-Owen Gleiberman,Entertainment Weekly

It is now all the rage in the Age of Al Gore and Obama, but can you remember when everyone in America was not "Going Green"? Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring,Earth Dayslooks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement-from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's incendiary bestsellerSilent Spring, to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action.

Earth Days' secret weapon is a one-two punch of personal testimony and rare archival media. The extraordinary stories of the era's pioneers-among them Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; biologist/Population Bombauthor Paul Ehrlich;Whole Earth Catalogfounder Stewart Brand; Apollo Nine astronaut Rusty Schweickart; and renewable energy pioneer Hunter Lovins-are beautifully illustrated with an incredible array of footage from candy-colored Eisenhower-era tableau to classic tear-jerking 1970s anti-litterbug PSAs. Directed by acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone (Oswald's Ghost, Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst)Earth Daysis both a poetic meditation on humanity's complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements-and missed opportunities-of groundbreaking eco-activism.

http://www.earthdaysmovie.com 

Call to Young Filmmakers: Palms for Life Fund Young Filmmakers' Competition to Document Hunger in the United States

A new national film contest, Faces of Hunger in America, will award prizes to young filmmakers, 25 years of age and under, who document in their own communities the increasingly widespread problem of hunger in America. The top three winners will receive cash prizes of $5,000, $3,500 and $1,500. Young filmmakers will be able to upload their entries online, where the public will partake in the first round of voting beginning October 16th, World Food Day.

To find out more about the competition, please visit the official website: http://www.facesofhunger.org and register for the mailing list if you are interested in participating in the contest.For general questions or to find out how you can help support this project, please contact us at: info@facesofhunger.org

For further information about Palms for Life Fund, please visit: palmsforlifefund.org

 

 

Video Symphony's Pizza & Post Presents: End To End RED Workflow for Avid With 4-Time Emmy Award-Winning Online Editor & Finishing Artist Michael Forrest.

Tuesday, August 25th 7-9pm
266 E. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA 91502

The presentation will go over the complete “end to end” Avid workflow. Michael will cover what’s found in a red folder (.R3D and associated proxies), transcoding to DnXHD with MetaFuze 2.0, cutting Red footage in MC then taking the resulting sequence into Avid DS for final Online. Cleaning up the cut, mattes, tracking/stabilizing, color correction including secondaries and final output to a variety of formats – HD, 4K or any custom size in-between.

Michael Forrest was one of the first instructors in the world certified to teach Avid|DS. As an early Beta Tester for the product he has in depth experience and knowledge of this high-end, post-production system. He has been employed as a Broadcast Designer/Senior Editor, using Avid|DS, Symphony, Media Composer, Photoshop and After Effects for the past 12 years. He has also worked for most of the major studios as Online Editor. He has traveled the world training employees from major film and television studios.

Michael has also worked with some of Los Angele’s top post houses as an online finishing artist for literally hundreds of studio films and TV shows including: Pirates of the Caribbean (spots/trailers), Resident Evil Extinction (TV spots), Nim’s Island (2K Optical EFX), Darfur Now (Titles), Nip/Tuck Seasons 1, 2 & 3 (Blu-Ray DVD release rebuilt each episode in HD), Spider-Man 3 (Theatrical/TV Spots for Blu-Ray release), CSI Miami, New York, Las Vegas EPK (1 hour each), There Will Be Blood (Finishing Artist/Trailers), and The Lord of The Rings Trilogy (Trailers).

"Pizza & Post" is a great opportunity to gain new insights, ask a few questions, network with your post-production peers and as always, eat a lot of pizza. This event is free and yes there is also free pizza. There's free parking in the adjacent parking garage (entrance at 239 E. Palm St., one block east of Magnolia).

Seating is limited, so kindly RSVP to RSVP@VS.EDU. Let us know how many will attend--the event is open to the public so you can bring interested friends or associates. Your RSVP holds your seats unless you hear back from us that the event is full.

Location Name:  Video Symphony

Address: 266 E. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA 91502

Contact:  RSVP to RSVP@VS.EDU

This is a story about a wall - the separations it's meant to enforce, and the unintended ones it gives birth to. The security wall being constructed by Israel on the West Bank has divided Palestinian families and communities. It has also isolated the Catholic-run Our Lady of Sorrows nursing home outside of Jerusalem, leaving its feisty residents to face old age in the throes of one of the world's most bitter conflicts. With beautiful imagery, moments of laughter and use of a quietly eccentric older guide, This Way Up examines the social, economic and religious barriers that arise from physical ones.

Georgi Lazarevski

International Documentary Association (IDA) invites you & a guest to another great Mixer

Meet professional filmmakers and network. IDA staff & board members will help you get connected to the documentary community, share your projects, meet new friends and build your professional network.

CLICK HERE TO RSVP NOW!

When:
Wednesady, August 26, 2009
7:00pm - 9:30pm

Where:
e3rd Steakhouse & Lounge
734 E. 3rd. Street
Los Angeles, CA

No Host Bar

Photos from Past IDA Mixers:

IDA Mixer July, 15, 2009 Photos

IDA Mixers 2008 Photos

Sponsors and Affiliates:

Cinema Libre

Creative Handbook

Electric Picture Solutions

Ironweed Films

Media Professional Insurance

Video Symphony

Xenon Pictures

Location Name:  e3rd Steakhouse & Lounge

Address: 734 E. 3rd. Street, Los Angeles, CA

Cella Gallery and The NoHo Arts Network are pleased to welcome international documentary film makers:

Beatriz Barragan & Janine Stengel

Video projections, photographic prints, performance and interactive art exploring the throw away culture of contemporary society.

Opening Reception
Friday, August 28th, 6-10 pm
at the T.V. Store located at:
11016 Magnolia Blvd. North Hollywood CA 91601
Exhibition Dates: August 28th - September 4th

Please RSVP: beatrizbarragan@hotmail.com

For more information: www.cinematografa.com

Supplementary Programming Includes:

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Wednesday, September 2nd
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
TOPIC: Media-Propaganda-Manipulaton and Consumption

DOCUMENTARY SCREENING
Thursday, September 3rd
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
SHOWING: "Confronting Current Mentalities" the latest feature length documentary produced by Barragan and Stengel with a Q & A session afterwards

This event is part of The Emerging Art Project generously supported by:
The Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation

A new documentary called Mary Pickford, The Muse of The Movies will screen at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Theater in Beverly Hills on Friday, August 28th at 8 p.m.

Mary Pickford narrates most of the film, which is was produced by award-winning producer Nicholas Eliopoiulos.

Before the screening (starting at 7 pm) a silent auction featuring four photos of Mary (two of them signed) will be conducted at a VIP reception.

Cost is $75, tax deductible, and the evening benefits the World Research Foundation (www.wrf.or).

Guests may RSVP and contact laverne@wrf.org for tickets and questions, or call (310) 827-0070

For more information on the film, see www.marypickfordthemuse.com

Location Name:  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Theater

Address: 8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA

Contact:  Guests may RSVP and contact laverne@wrf.org for tickets and questions, or call (310) 827-0070

AsoloArtFilmFestival Student Hub
New!!

August 28 - September 6, 2009
Message addressed to all students from all over the world

Are you a student between 18 and 26 year old?
Would you like to share with other students your passion for cinema and art?
We are looking forward to create an intercultural platform to exchange ideas,
projects in a totally new creative setting inspired from the local tradition.

Participate at the XXVIII edition of AsoloArtFilmFestival!

Contact us, places are limited!
For interested students we will offer free accommodation by filling out and forwarding the attached form to:
ospitalita@asolofilmfestival.it.

For more information please contact us at: +39 0423 1995235-36

By the 10 August 2009

AsoloArtFilmFestival launches a new initiative addressed to Italian and foreign students interested in the XXVIII edition of the festival as well as the lands of Giorgione, Andrea Palladio, Paolo Veronese, Lorenzo Lotto, Antonio Canova, Robert Browning, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Eleonora Duse, Carlo Scarpa, Freya Starkand and many others.
www.asolo.it
Web: http://www.asolo.it
ospitalita@asolofilmfestival.it.

Celebrate Livelihood and Freedom at the Jeevika Festival.

Jeevika Festival includes film screenings, panel discussions and music. 

For more info go to http://www.jeevika.org/

Films will be screened and discussed at the India Habitat Center, New Delhi from 28-30 August 2009.
Selection for Jeevika 2009
01. Disposable Vimlendu Jha
02. Gold Rush-The Neharawalah Raja Dey
03. All the World's A Stage Nirmal Chander
04. The Female Nude Hem Jyotika & Devi Prasad Mishra
05. The Hunted-In Search of Home & Hope Shaji Pattanam
06. Children of the Pyre Rajesh S Jala
07. Goddesses Leena Manimekalai
08. Homebound Maria Victoria Avic IIagan
09. 1876-An Entertainment Anasuya Vaidya
10. When you are Sleeping Naveen Kumar Pun
11. Kalpurusher Kabyakatha (Ode to Orion) Abhra Aich & Debarati Chakraborty
12. Rural Postal Employees Deepika Bhardwaj

 

Winners will be awarded on 30 August 2009.
The below documentaries will also be screened during Jeevika 2009
01. Tales of the Night Fairies Shohini Ghosh (1st Prize 2004)
02. Aftershocks: A Rough Guide to Democracy Rakesh Sharma (1st Prize 2005)
03. One Show Less Nayantara C Kotian (1st Prize 2006)
04. Pretty Dyana Boris Mitic (Jury Mention 2006)
05. Ambi Jiji's Retirement Nandini Bedi (1st Prize 2007)
06. Maid in Lebanon Carol Mansour (Jury Mention 2007)
07. Bagher Bachcha Bishnu Halder (Jury Mention 2007)
08. Chilika Banks Akanksha Joshi (1st Prize 2008)
09. Hearts Suspended Meghna Damani ((Jury Mention 2008)
FESTIVAL: 28-30 August 2009, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

Address: , Delhi

YOUTH KNOWS NO PAIN

From elective cosmetic surgeries to toxic injections to expensive creams, America's anti-aging business is a $60 billion a year enterprise that caters to and fuels the fear of growing old. As the daughter of a plastic surgeon, Mitch McCabe has long been intrigued by the extreme measures people take to maintain the appearance of youth. Debuting MONDAY, AUG. 31 (9:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT), the exclusive HBO documentary YOUTH KNOWS NO PAIN is her funny and troubling portrait of a country desperate to stay forever young.

An official selection of the recent SILVERDOCS Film Festival, YOUTH KNOWS NO PAIN was written, directed, produced and edited by Mitch McCabe; executive produced by Dale Rosenbloom, Seth Willenson and W. Wilder Knight II; produced by Linda Chiu and Kathleen Rosenbloom; edited by Michael Taylor; written by Elena Parker; original music by David Majzlin. For HBO: supervising producer, Sarah Bernstein; executive producer, Sheila Nevins.

 

In YOUTH KNOWS NO PAIN, an age-obsessed daughter of a plastic surgeon (filmmaker Mitch McCabe) takes a journey through America's $60 billion a year anti-aging world. In this Alice-in-Wonderland tale, McCabe spends 2 years traveling across America visiting doctors, experts and lives with a cross-section of characters from Minnesota to Texas who've gone to varying lengths to "beat the clock", to paint a funny but troubling portrait of a country that desperately needs to stay forever young. Along the way, one wonders if the filmmaker herself hasn't been pulled in by the seduction of youth.

Produced, directed and filmed by Mitch McCabe.
Edited by Michael Taylor and Mitch McCabe
Producers: Linda Chiu and Kathleen Rosenbloom
HBO Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins, HBO Supervising Producer: Sara Bernstein.
Executive Producers: Dale Rosenbloom, Seth Willenson, W. Wilder Knight II
Co-Produced by Elena Parker, Carmen Cuba and Ellen Killoran

Original Music by David Majzlin. Music Consultant: Susan Jacobs
Featuring songs by The Explorers, Philip Glass, Vital, Jonathan Zalben