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Visit our recently updated YouTube Channel now featuring Q&As with notable documentary filmmakers, curated playlists as well as video of past Doc Us and workshops. This month we feature Doc U: Focus on Funding, a rare opportunity to actually hear from those elusive funders! A panel of experts, including Morrie Warshawski and Tamir Muhammad from Tribeca give you the inside scoop on best practices when applying for grants and pitching your film to potential funders.
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In the fall of 1971, my friends and I gathered in our college dorm to listen to the radio as our draft lottery numbers were drawn. Since the Vietnam War was still raging and student deferments had been eliminated, these random numbers would determine who would be drafted, who would become a conscientious objector and who would emigrate to Canada. We all knew we were against the war in Vietnam, but in retrospect, we couldn't easily separate our moral convictions from our own selfish reasons for opposing the war. A few years after I drew a safe lottery number, I saw Hearts and Minds by Peter
THANK YOU CENTRAL SAN PEDRO NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL! The Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council has provided the IDA with a generous $3,000 grant to help support the Docs Rock program in the 2011-2012 school year. Docs Rock is a two-semester program taught at San Pedro High School that introduces high school students to the world of documentary filmmaking. The Council announced that they are "pleased to support the Docs Rock program..." They were "impressed, not only with the unique quality of the program but also the improved graduation rate as an outcome." Docs Rock engages students in their
If you happen to wander into the Park Hyatt Hotel in Century City, California from October 29-November 1, 2005, you may notice an abundance of smart ladies from around the globe dashing about, talking about everything from international sales to creative choices to camera equipment. That's because Los Angeles is the 2005 host for the annual Women In Film & Television International (WIFTI) Summit. The yearly gathering, which has been held in such exotic locales as New Zealand and Jamaica, comes to the movie capital of America for four days of panels, lunches, screenings, parties and special
I recently completed the score for a wonderful film of which I was proud to be part. The filmmakers and I collaborated for months, working each cue until it perfectly achieved our intentions. I painstakingly recorded over 80 minutes of music with other musicians, bringing out every detail until it was exactly what the filmmakers and I had envisioned. After I delivered the score, the filmmakers spent the next week at the sound stage, mixing effects, music and dialogue. We finished just in time for our first screening. We provided a Blu-ray DVD with a 5.1 surround mix that had been quality