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The Daily Record has named Baltimore-born filmmaker Steven Fischer in its 2010 list of Influential Marylanders. A ceremony celebrating all 60 honorees will be held April 21 at the Grand Lodge in Cockeysville, Maryland. Fischer is a Baltimore native and a two-time Emmy Award-nominated writer-producer-director of films such as Silence of Falling Leaves (2000), Draw the Line (2006), and Freedom Dance (2007). His diverse subject matter includes the American Civil War, AmeriCorps, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Fischer is currently in production on an educational documentary about creativity, featuring the six-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer William A. Fraker.

R.J. Johnson's The Joke's On Thee re-ran on Friday, April 9 on KOCE in Los Angeles.

Steven Barber's documentary Unbeaten will be shown on the campus of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and he has been issued a standing invitation to visit Walter Reed and tour the facilities. According to Barber, there will be here will be more than 1000 disabled vets at this event. www.unbeatenthemovie.com

Alexis Krasilovsky's award-winning global documentary Shooting Women, about the challenges and visions of camerawomen shooting in war zones and on feature sets in Hollywood, Bollywood, and beyond, screened at the Birds Eye View Film Festival at BFI Southgate on March 7. www.womenbehindthecamera.com

Robert Drew's latest film is A President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kennedy, an 80-minute work in which he edited together his four JFK films with other footage of that time to present an intimate history in candid photography of one American President. Alec Baldwin handles the narration. Says Drew, "The film has played well in festivals in the US and overseas. HBO will broadcast the film this November to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's winning the Presidency. 2010 is also the 50th anniversary of the making of Primary, the formation of Drew Associates and the beginning of cinema verite in the United States. We have embarked on a long term project of putting onto DVD a large number of the very early Drew Associates' films which are otherwise unavailable to scholars, students and the general public. Concurrently we are also working to release more current films from our archive." www.drewassociates.net