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Secure and protect the rights of documentary filmmakers by joining the IDA.
'The Warriors of Qiuygang,' is nominated in the Best Short category at the 2011 IDA Documentary Awards.
Rethinking the Festival Circuit.
From Nadja Drost's Between Midnight and the Rooster's Crow The Amnesty International Film Festival is an annual touring program, having played thus far in Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Washington, DC and Salt Lake City, and concluding gigs in Asheville, North Carolina and Seattle in January and February 2006. This year's festival slogan is "Expose," and viewers have indeed been exposed to a veritable panoply of human rights abuses and urgent issues, ranging from child labor to environmental disasters, genocide and ethnic cleansing to globalization, child conscription to the war on terror and
Net neutrality and the documentary community.
'The Most Dangerous Man in America' is nominated for an ABCNews VideoSource Award.
Submit your stories to help preserve your fair use rights.
'Poster Girl,' an IDA Awards nominee for Short Documentary, premieres November 9 on HBO.
'Woody Allen: A Documentary' airs November 20 and 21 on 'American Masters.'
Film Independent's annual Forum, held at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles last month, provides a weekend's worth of practical and pragmatic food for thought for the working indie filmmaker. Whether the intricacies and complexities of the law, or the thrill and agony of doing it yourself, or the exciting possibilities of transmedia production, the Forum aims to provide the filmmaker with useful tools and tips. Arthur Dong has been distributing his own work since the analogue days-pre-social media, pre-Web, pre-e-mail, perhaps even pre-touch-tone, when life was so much slower, and