Attending any film festival is necessarily an immersive experience. Arriving in an unfamiliar city, you check into your hotel, pick up your press credentials and a program, and then are left to your own devices. En route to the 30th International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal, this process of immersion begins on the train as it winds its way through the city's outskirts, crossing wide stretches of the converging Ottawa and Saint Lawrence Rivers that form the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The modest skyscrapers reminiscent of its financial-center past and the prominent topographical feature
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"Help, I need Errors & Omissions for my film. Why do I need it? How do I get it done?" To answer these questions, I, the Good Witch...well, the Insurance Broker of the West, must guide a filmmaker down the Yellow Brick Road and into the Land of Oz to get the ultimate coverage. As a documentary filmmaker, you might not enter a world of celebrity and glamour, but even if you only achieve a modicum of fame, there still is a public perception that a filmmaker has deep pockets. This perception is, of course, a disadvantage for documentarians as this means they are open to the probable lawsuits
No other city rivals New York's love affair with the movies. No city looks quite so beautiful on film. From the dawn of film history, New York was there, front row center, making movies and watching them unfold, first at nickelodeons, where movies were called "actualities"--short documentaries on daily life--and patrons witnessed the miracle of photography in motion. For them, nothing appeared quite as perfect on film as scenes of city life; indeed, much of early American cinema was devoted to documenting the hustle and bustle and heartbreaks and joys of life in New York City. Since then, New
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Feature Documentary Award Favela Rising Directors/Writers: Jeff Zimbalist, Matt Mochary Producers: Matt Mochary, Jeff Zimbalist Cinematographers: Jeff Zimbalist, Kelly Mark Green, Matt Mochary Editor: Jeff Zimbalist Composer: Force Theory Stealth Films, Sidetrack Films, Voy Pictures, THINKFilm, HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films Favela Rising documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sa is a former drug trafficker who turns revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro's most feared
IDA Board Member Beth Bird joins PBS Needs Indies steering committee.
"Ahoy, hornswaggling pirates! Get me film booty out of yer bung hole or you'll sleep in Davy Jones' Locker." That's about the best threat most independent filmmakers think they can make against illegal film pirates. I have just finished my monthly task of Googling myself, and have found over 11 million hits. Okay, 13,000 hits for me, 11 million for my documentary See What I'm Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary. This is not ego-surfing or a vanity search, but rather a seek-and-destroy missive for my distributor to send cease-and-desist letters to the dozens of illegal torrent files
Decoding Deepak is set to play IFFLA on Thursday, April 12th at 8:30pm