Twenty years ago, SXSW was born as a music festival in the self-proclaimed capitol of live music, Austin, Texas. The film component of the festival was launched seven years later, soon followed by an interactive section. Needless to say, there's a lot going on in Austin these days. In addition to being one of the top music festivals in the world, SXSW is considered one of the top places to premiere your documentary film. The venues at SXSW are spread out all over Austin, from the classic Paramount movie house to Landmark's Dobie Theater in the Dobie Mall, to what Entertainment Weekly named one
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If you're looking for a little spice in your fall public television line-up, check out Voces , a new 13-part series showcasing Latino culture that premieres September 2. Curated by Luca Bentivoglio, executive director of Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB), and distributed by American Public Television (APT), the series covers everything from music to portraits of Latino and Chicano icons to suburban ethnicity. Says Bentivoglio, "One of the reasons I came up with Voces is because I think that even though PBS and public television in general do a very good job at broadcasting Latino films across
Over the next month, we at IDA will be introducing our community to the filmmakers whose work is represented in the DocuWeeks TM Theatrical Documentary Showcase, which runs from August 12 through September 1 in New York City and August 19 through September 8 in Los Angeles. We asked the filmmakers to share the stories behind their films--the inspirations, the challenges and obstacles, the goals and objectives, the reactions to their films so far. So, to continue this series of conversations, here is Nick Brandestini, director/producer of Darwin. Synopsis: Darwin is a documentary film about an
Over the next month, we at IDA will be introducing our community to the filmmakers whose work is represented in the DocuWeeks TM Theatrical Documentary Showcase, which runs from August 12 through September 1 in New York City and August 19 through September 8 in Los Angeles. We asked the filmmakers to share the stories behind their films--the inspirations, the challenges and obstacles, the goals and objectives, the reactions to their films so far. So, to kick off this series of conversations, here is Phil Grabsky, director/executive producer/writer of The Boy Mir--Ten Years in Afghanistan
On Edward Landler and Brad Byer's 'I Build the Tower: The Life and Work of Sam Rodia' and donnie l. betts' 'Music Is My Life, Politics My Mistress: The Story of Oscar Brown Jr.'
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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