Roslyn Dauber's Tara's Daughters, about Tibetan women refugees, screened at the new Rubin Himalayan Art Museum in New York City on June 4. Dauber appeared at the screening to discuss the feminine in Tibetan Culture.

Mary Healey-Conlon's Holy Water-Gate began playing on Showtime this past May, and will continue to run on all Showtime Networks through the end of October. In this personally driven narrative, the filmmaker-herself raised Catholic-spends over four years gathering a collection of stories from individuals on all sides of the clergy sex abuse crisis. Healey-Conlon details a riveting unfolding of events spanning 19 years. Seeking to understand the fundamental causes and consequences of priestly sexual abuse of children, she seeks out victims across the US, and meets a perpetrator priest to discover how his crimes were concealed by church and civil authorities.

Philomath Films is very pleased to announce that Shakespeare Behind Bars was awarded
the Special Jury Prize for Documentary Feature at the 2005 Independent Film Festival of Boston. In director Hank Rogerson's revelatory trip into and around this prison production, we embark on a year-long journey with the Shakespeare Behind Bars theater troupe, a group of hardened Luther Luckett State Prison inmates. The prisoners cast themselves in roles reflecting their personal history and fate and just as in Shakespeare's day, the men play all the female roles. The inmates' individual stories, including information about their heinous crimes, are interwoven with the plot of The Tempest as these men delve deeply into the characters they portray while confronting their personal demons.

Black Sky: The Race for Space, produced and directed by IDA members Jill Shinefield and Gail Willumsen, has won a Peabody Award. A 90-minute documentary for the Discovery Channel, Black Sky chronicles the first great aeronautical feat of the 21st century: the launch of Burt Rutan's privately funded and privately built SpaceShipOne,  the first non-governmental craft to carry humans into space. The Peabody Awards recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by stations, networks, producing organizations and individuals. gwilly@pacbell.net or jshine@pacbell.net.

Susan Stern's (Barbie Nation) new documentary, The Self-Made Man, a poignant and funny exploration of the "right to die," won Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in April. The Self-Made Man debuted at the SXSW Film Festival in March.

Pam Walton's Liberty: 3 Stories about Life & Death and Call to Witness will be included in LOGO, MTV's historic new gay cable channel, which at press time was set to launch on June 30. Liberty chronicles the deaths of two of Walton's close friends and Call to Witness documents the struggle for gay and lesbian ordination in the Lutheran Church. Liberty was included in IDA's 2003 InFACT^TM Theatrical Documentary Showcase and was voted Best Short Documentary at Cineffable's Paris International Feminist and Lesbian Film Festival. The film is being distributed by New Day Films. www.pamwaltonproductions.com.