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Working with one's domestic partner can be tricky--especially when the couple has an infant. Five minutes after finishing our documentary Horns and Halos, my partner, Suki Hawley, who edited the film, went into labor. I got to go the premiere and she got to stay in the hospital. Needless to say, it was a bit of a struggle to get our subsequent projects off the ground. Now, in addition to arranging a shoot, we also have to arrange a sitter. When our daughter was a year old, I went out of town for a week to work on a film, leaving my partner (and child) behind. It put some serious strains on our
The story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives wins this year's award for demonstrating concern for the natural environment.
France's directorial debut 'How To Survive A Plague' one of the year's most-acclaimed films.
'Solar Mamas,' one of the films in 'Why Poverty?', airs November 5 on PBS' 'Independent Lens' series.
The 2005 Sundance Film Festival opened on Inauguration Day and, as an encore to the politically charged year that had just passed, featured an impressive slate of issues-driven docs, as well as a handful of nonfiction films bound to shiver the timbers of many a red-blooded Utahan. Inside Deep Throat, the latest from Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, examines the early 1970s zeitgeist surrounding the release of Deep Throat, the wildly successful porn film that triggered a national debate about the First Amendment, obscenity, sexual liberation and exploitation. Barbato and Bailey populate the
In a master class entitled "The Art of the Tease," held at the 2005 RealScreen Summit in Washington, DC, in February, two hooks were cited to entice viewers to watch a program: sex, greed and fear, and the Seven Deadly Sins (pride, envy, anger, sloth, avarice, gluttony, lust). Coupled with a metaphor from THINKFilm's Mark Urman--"Films are like cockroaches--there are lots of them; some survive and breed, and some get squashed and stepped on, languish and die."--RealScreen was off to a start. Filmmaker Errol Morris delivered the keynote address, describing himself as a rule-breaker who got to
Back in November 2011, the IDA and Kartemquin Films sent out a request for your help as we were preparing to submit comments to the Library of Congress regarding the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). We were requesting that an exemption be renewed to allow all filmmakers to obtain the clips they need to tell their stories under the protection of the law. With your help and support, we submitted these comments for consideration of appending the DMCA’s current restrictions for accessing footage on Thursday, December 1, 2011. Yesterday, on Thursday, October 25, the Librarian of Congress
For many documentary filmmakers, the online world is still a foreign landscape that raises anxiety-producing questions: How will my audience find my work? How will I recoup my costs? Will I be seen as a legitimate documentary filmmaker? Morgan Spurlock, who has developed Web series with Hulu and Yahoo, among others, has actually been in the Web game long before his hit feature debut Super Size Me (2004). "The very first Web series I ever did was in 2000," he explained via e-mail. "In 1999, I wrote a business plan and raised $250,000 in financing for a company that would use the Web as a place
Host of Matt's Movies talks about an upcoming radio special based on a recent Steve James film.