Women Make Movies (WMM) is losing its enviable, mile-long view of New York City's SoHo. Across the street from WMM's floor-to-ceiling windows, construction workers ignore the warm rain as they build the infrastructure to what will be a spanking new and obnoxiously high 16-story building. But Women Make Movies is still in an enviable position that Executive Director Debra Zimmerman would never have imagined over 30 years ago, when she first began working as an intern. "I made $50 a week and 25 of that was deferred," Zimmerman recalls . Women Make Movies is a multi-cultural, multi-racial
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You come to SXSW for the synergy. The sprawling, raucous festival in Austin, Texas overlaps three creative communities: filmmakers, interactive designers and musicians. SXSW could keep Austin weird all by itself. This year I heard rumors of Austin streets occupied by a tiny house on wheels (demo-ing for the winsome documentary Tiny), a rolling bed filled with people reading poetry (for the documentary Big Joy), and artist-activists reading a legal brief defending the copyright doctrine of fair use. I didn't see any of them, because I was caught in traffic jams created by other spectacles, but
As a light snow fell, the 10th annual True/False Film Fest officially kicked off on March 1 with its "March March" documentary film parade. Hundreds of watchers and participants took to Ninth Street in downtown Columbia, including the Marching Mizzou drumline, representing the University of Missouri, an anchor of the college town that's home to the festival. The March March, a staple of the True/False Film Fest. Photo: Taylor Glascock Only a few days prior to the festival's film screenings, which began on February 28, volunteers were out shoveling the snow from two winter storms that had
'Free Angela and All Political Prisoners' opens in theaters April 5 through Codeblack Films.
A review of 'Ferocious Reality: Documentary According to Werner Herzog'
'Kind Hearted Woman airs April 1 and 2 on PBS' 'Frontline' and 'Independent Lens.'
'Room 237' opens March 29 in New York through IFC Midnight.
The International Documentary Association is now accepting proposals for the The Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund, which provides production support for full-length documentary films. The Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund is made possible by a grant from The New York Community Trust. Named in honor of the landmark documentary filmmaker, the Fund provides annual grants totaling $95,000 to be used in the creation of original, independent documentary films that illuminate pressing issues in the United States. In 2013, grants will be made to up to 6 projects that tell a compelling story and focus on one
The presence of women commissioning editors and buyers of documentaries in the European television landscape is quite remarkable. Although heads of channels or units are most often men, if one takes a quick look at the number of commissioning editors and buyers on some of the major public broadcasting stations in Europe, women are in the majority. (Source: EDN TV-Guide, www.edn.dk) Since the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the '90s, women have become more visible in the media in general; more women work as journalists, filmmakers and producers, and occupy administrative posts in the
A review of Michael Rabiger's 'Directing the Documentary' (Fourth Edition).