WITNESS, the nonprofit human rights organization conceived by musician and activist Peter Gabriel to empower human rights defenders to use video for human rights advocacy, recently launched the WITNESS Media Archive, dedicated to the acquisition, preservation and licensing of rare and politically sensitive media. The archive is comprised of over 2,000 hours of video in varying formats, with content ranging from original raw footage to documentary productions. The majority of the collection is from groups with which Witness has partnered, such as Human Rights Focus, which works with displaced
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Documentary filmmakers come in all stripes and from all walks of life, and often the only shared quality is a passion for their subjects and a desire to get the story told. Underlying these disparate characteristics however, are fundamental aspects of how all documentary business models must operate. What are the various options available to filmmakers, to be set up in the business of making documentaries? What business model works best for you and your filmmaking? How can you decide? And what are the implications come tax time? Bring your questions to The Cinefamliy on Wednesday, March 21
Flying into Berlin under gray, wintry skies for the Berlin International Film Festival, or Berlinale, is still a thrill, even after many years of attending it. Leaving real life behind for a week of sitting in the dark watching film from all over the world is possibly one of the great guilty pleasures for a programmer and critic, and, apparently, for many Berlin inhabitants. Founded in 1951 in what was then West Berlin, as a counterweight to the Communist era East Germany by which the city was surrounded for 50 years, the Berlinale has long been committed to showcasing work about social and
Cinematographer Guillermo Navarro, ASC, once deemed today's films, "the Rosetta Stone of our times. They are how future generations will know who we were and what we thought, felt and did." The question is, Will today's films be there for future generations? Andy Maltz and Milt Shefter were on a mission to find the answer to that question when their research culminated with them writing The Digital Dilemma: Strategic Issues in Archiving and Assessing Digital Motion Picture Materials in 2007. (For an article about the report, from the Summer 2008 Documentary, click here.) Maltz is the director
This Doctalk special airs at 8pm ET and re-airs at 11pm ET (5pm and 8pm Pacific).
'On the Bowery: The Films of Lionel Rogosin Volume I' is just out as a two-DVD set via Milestone Film and Video.
Is New York City really the center of independent documentary filmmaking, or does it just seem that way? Short answer: it is. Sorry, to those of you (myself included) who are Angelenos. If you're interested in co-producing, financing and distributing independent documentary films, most independent film distribution companies, big and small, studio-financed or actually independent, are based in New York City. And unlike the studios, where heads of distribution can change over a weekend, many of these companies, like New Yorker Films, Sony Pictures Classics and First Run Features, have had
DocuDay draws huge crowds to the WGA Theater one day before the Oscars.
Detailed recap of our recent event in Los Angeles about the little gold man and his future.