"Telling Stories that change the world," emphatically defines the mission of GreenTreks Network, Inc. In partnership with KRCB Television 22 in Rohnert Park, California. GreenTreks sponsored the 2004 PBS series Natural Heroes. The series won a platinum Telly Award in the Film/Video category of Nature/Wildlife. A second Natural Heroes series is being developed for 2006. The series consists of 13 episodes, each 30 minutes in length, telling stories about people doing something to help the environment and thereby change the world. KRCB and GreenTreks are fielding entries for next season, and will
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New to documentaries? After this summer's slate of high profile doc releases like Rize, Mad Hot Ballroom and Murderball, many cineastes are finding a new passion for nonfiction filmmaking. If you want to delve deeper into the genre, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has your fix with two film series beginning this autumn. The weekly film series "Oscar's Docs: The First 20 Years of Oscar-winning Documentaries" will showcase the projects which received Academy Awards in the documentary short and feature categories from 1941-1960. Two years of short and feature winners will be
Editor's Note: What follows is the edited version of a chapter from Selling Your Film without Selling Your Soul, by The Film Collaborative, Jon Reiss and Sheri Candler. The book is a compendium of case studies in hybrid, DIY and P2P independent distribution. Thanks to Sheri Candler and Jon Reiss for granting us permission to use this chapter. Note by Note: The Making of Steinway LI037 (hereafter Note by Note) is a feature-length independent documentary that follows the creation of a Steinway concert grand, #L1037. The film spans 12 months, from forest floor to concert hall, and features 12,000
From Emmys.com: North Hollywood, CA - The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Board of Governors voted this evening to approve the creation of the first-ever Reality Peer Group and rename the current Nonfiction Peer Group as the Documentary Peer Group. Prior to tonight's vote, both reality and documentary television professionals comprised the membership of the Nonfiction Peer Group. The new Reality Peer Group will be made up of Academy members engaged in reality programming for national exhibition. The renamed Documentary Peer Group will continue to include members involved in documentary
The Eighth Full Frame Documentary Festival broke its previous attendance records this year, and has become more than a fixture in the cultural life of Durham, North Carolina. It has become a positive sign in a city demoralized by crime. Nancy Buirski, the festival's executive director, says, "The new venue at American Tobacco [Campus]--Duke University's decision to become part of our family of sponsors--shows how we truly have found our home in the Durham and Triangle community." The theme this year was "Why War?" but ironically war took a back seat to other more personal themes in American
Documentaries were front and center at the 48th San Francisco International Film Festival, which ran from April 21 to May 5, and included 35 documentary features, an award to BBC documentarian Adam Curtis, two films from French filmmaker and photojournalist Raymond Depardon and the latest from Rivers and Tides (2002) director Thomas Riedelsheimer. Curtis received the festival's Persistence of Vision Award, which honors lifetime achievement in documentaries and short films. The premise of his latest three-part BBC series, The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (2004), is
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In a letter to the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Debra Chasnoff and over 150 filmmakers ask for clarification on why an innocent filmmaker is repeatedly being detained and interrogated at the US border.
We are pulling this article from the archive to promote our upcoming Doc U: Shooting Overseas: Making Your Doc on Foreign Soil at the AFCI Locations Show at the L.A. Convention Center. On Friday, June 15, we are hosting a panel of doc filmmakers who have traveled the globe and film commissioners whose job it is to make filming in their countries as straightforward as possible. Register for the AFCI Locations Show and RSVP for this free Doc U today! I've spent a third of my professional life in the developing world. The toughest experiences have been filming a documentary in Cameroon, West