We spoke with Eddie Schmidt as he handed the IDA Board President torch over to Marjan Safinia.
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Academy Film Archive The International Documentary Association is recognizing the extraordinary contribution that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Academy Film Archive has made to preserving historic documentaries for posterity. About 70,000 historic motion pictures are archived at the academy's Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study in Hollywood, California. Michael Pogorzelski, Academy Film Archive director, estimates that about 5,000 of those titles are documentaries, including the IDA collection. "It's hard to pin down the
Amidst the announcement of the line-up of the 58th Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Frémaux, the event's artistic director, used ambiguous language to address the fact that no documentary films had been selected to compete for its coveted awards. "This year, we are under the sign of cinema d'auteur," Frémaux explained, "Whereas in 2004, we were under the sign of eclecticism." This was perhaps a polite way of stating that this year's competition roster was almost entirely comprised of films from such established narrative filmmakers as Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier and David Cronenberg. It goes
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Chris Hegedus and DA Pennebaker, 2005 IDA Career Achievement Award honorees Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall... There are some partnerships where it's difficult to consider one without the other, so indelible are their entwined identities. The same is true of filmmakers DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, whose 30-year collaboration has yielded many award-winning documentaries and advanced the cinéma vérité filmmaking style to capture historical moments and movements in music, entertainment and politics. "I sort of feel like making films is like trying to have children in that you desperately
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Courtesy of Judith Dancoff What are the keys to successfully selling your film to the academic market? The mistake too many documentary filmmakers make is to think of the process as simply a matter of buying e-mail lists; they are then disappointed when they don't make the sales they want. The fact is, marketing, like filmmaking, requires solid pre-production, with one's campaign at the back end, not the beginning. We would never turn our cameras on without a lot of preparation, so why do we think we can go directly into sales without the same degree of work? As in filmmaking, pre-production
From The Boys of Baraka Feature Documentaries The Boys of BarakaHeidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Cara Mertes, Sally Jo FiferLoki Films, ITVS, PBS, P.O.V. /American Documentary Cowboy del AmorMichèle Ohayon, Theo Van de SandeHomeland Film Productions Inc., Netflix Inc., Showtime Networks Enron: The Smartest Guys in the RoomAlex Gibney, Jason Kliot, Susan Motamed, Joana VicenteHDNet Films, Magnolia Pictures Favela Rising *WinnerJeff Zimbalist, Matt MocharyStealth Films, Sidetrack Films, Voy Pictures, THINKFilm, HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films The Last CampaignWayne EwingWayne Ewing Films, Inc The Last