Nearly a hundred years ago, William Allen White, the iconic writer and spokesperson for small-town America, wrote, "If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own... how much kinder, how much gentler he would be." Audiences emotionally connect with films when they discover they share with the "characters" the common thread of humanity. This goes for both nonfiction and narrative films. One doesn't have to be a Latina in America to relate to the pressures of family and society
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Festival tickets are available until June 8, 2012.
A review of 'D.A. Pennebaker,' by Keith Beattie.
This festival runs June 6-10 at the Egyptian Theater in LA.
'The Invisible War,' from Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, opens in theaters June 22 through Cinedigm Entertainment Group and New Video.
AMPAS has provided the IDA with a $10,000 grant to take Doc U on the Road.
"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