Calendar – Past Event

WILL YOUR FILMS BE THERE
FOR TOMORROW'S AUDIENCES?


Today's documentaries are the contemporary Rosetta Stone which will show and tell tomorrow's audiences who we were and what we did. The big question is how do you preserve yesterday's and today's non-fiction films for posterity?
Milt Shefter will address that question during a seminar at the Cine Gear Conference. The seminar will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. on Friday, June 4 in the Sherry Lansing Theater on the Paramount Studios lot. Shefter and Academy Technology and Science Director Andy Maltz co-authored The Digital Dilemma Report published by the Academy of Motion Arts & Sciences Technology and Science Council in late 2007. That report focused on fiction films owned by the Hollywood studios.
The Academy and the Library of Congress have conducted a follow-up study focusing on documentaries and independent films. Shefter says there were hundreds of responses to surveys sent to members of the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the International Documentary Association and the non-fiction branch on the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Interviews were conducted with dozens of the respondents. The follow-up report is scheduled for release later this summer. Visit www.cinegearexpo.com for a summary of all Cinegear seminars, exhibits, screenings, etc. Registration is free through May 28th. After that the cost is $20.

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