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Cara Mertes recently assumed her new role as director of the Los Angeles-based Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program. Mertes transitioned to Sundance from her post as executive director of American Documentary, Inc., and executive producer of the New York-based PBS documentary showcase P.O.V. In her new position, Mertes will oversee all the initiatives of Sundance's Documentary Film Program, including the Sundance Documentary Fund, the various documentary film labs held in Utah, House of Docs programming at the Filmmaker Lodge at the Sundance Film Festival and on-going, year-round
People couldn't stop talking about the changes around Silverdocs since its inception in 2003. The Fourth Annual SilverDocs AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival, based in Silver Spring, Maryland, featured a conference, parties, panels, talks and plenty of movies for filmmakers and industry reps from around the world. The fest kicked off with Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters, Bill Couturié's look behind the making of movie hits. The film explores the nation's recent obsession with box office performance and how it affects moviegoers and how it can make-or-break industry careers
On Steven Cantor's 'What Remains,' and Gerald Fox's 'Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank.
Richard "Ricky" Leacock, who, with Robert Drew, Albert Maysles and DA Pennebaker, helped revolutionize documentary filmmaking with a dynamic, transformational style known as cinema vérité, passed away on March 23. He was 89, and lived in Paris. Throughout his remarkable career--one that began at age 14 with his first documentary, Canary Bananas, about growing up on his father's banana plantation in the Canary Islands--he strove, as he puts it on his prodigious website ( www.richardleacock.com) "to give my viewers a sense of ‘being there.'" He graduated from Harvard University, with a degree in
The Los Angeles Film Festival returned to its downtown digs last month, with its parent company, Film Independent, in a bit of a flux with the departure of its longtime executive director, Dawn Hudson, for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science. But with Rebecca Yeldham and David Ansen helming the festival once again, Angelinos had much cinematic food for thought amid a very crowded month of festivals. To the east there was SilverDocs, Human Rights Watch Festival and Shefield Doc/Fest, and to the north, Frameline and Banff World Media Festival. In addition, there were high-profile
Wrapping up the Games for Change symposium.
What happens to the narrative DNA of a movie once it's in your mind? Does it get decoded? Does it get cloned in the stories you tell? Or in the narrative structure of your own life story? If you were engineering the marketing for Errol Morris' new documentary--or "anti-documentary," as he calls it-- Tabloid, you might, not unlike the film's star, Joyce McKinney, once did, think that you were living a fairy tale in light of the media climate these days: The scandal-fueled death of 168-year-old British tabloid giant News of the World is making international headlines, while a recent Newsweek
'Life in a Day' opens July 24 in the US.