A report from Hot Docs 2007.
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A report on the 2007 Silver Spring-based docfest.
Sage Counsel on How to Shake the Money Tree
From Steven Okazaki's White Light/Black Rain Screened at this year's Sundance Film Festival were Wonders Are Many, Jon Else's film about the making of Dr. Atomic, the John Adams-Peter Sellars opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation and detonation of the first atomic bombs, and White Light/Black Rain, Steven Okazaki's heartbreaking and sobering series of interviews with survivors of those atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Seen in succession, these films could be engaged as a diptych on a horrific subject, with White Light/Black Rain a response to Wonders Are
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US Supreme Court rules against statute on First Amendment grounds.
IDA Exec Director heads to DC, encourages doc filmmakers to do their part.
Over the next couple of weeks, we at IDA will be introducing our community to the filmmakers whose work will be represented in the DocuWeek TM Theatrical Documentary Showcase, August 17-23. 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 Irene Taylor Brodsky, director/producer of Hear and Now. Synopsis: Filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky tells the story of her deaf parents, Paul and Sally Taylor, and their decision at
Latino indie producers gather for annual confab.
IDA members, producers, friends talk docs and more at latest IDA event.