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Ted Leonsis, an Internet pioneer, sports team owner and philanthropist, is the producer of the documentary Nanking By Ted Leonsis In the many years I have been an Internet and new media executive, I have come across some incredibly smart, talented, creative minds who have literally changed the world. But few of them could hold a candle to the people I've encountered since I began working with co-directors Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman on Nanking. Simply put, I'm bowled over by the caliber of people in this field. And more are moving into it every day, drawn by several trends--lower production
Film opens March 18 at Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles.
Twenty-five long-format documentary films in under a month. That was the deal. No pay. Imagine that. All you get for the effort is the prestige that comes along with participation. After screening, notes, scoring and submissions, it was almost two weeks of intense, focused, academic-style work. I was one of the volunteer screeners for this year's IDA Documentary Awards. Documentary filmmaking affords a great deal of liberty in life, which more than likely will not include a mortgage in Southern California. In this case, since I was unemployed at the time and had no immediate gig on the horizon
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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 kick off this series of conversations, here is Joan Brooker-Marks, director/producer of Larry Flynt: The Right to be Left Alone. Synopsis: Both hero and villain, tireless civil rights advocate and purveyor of pornography, the
In 1954, the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision declaring school segregation unconstitutional was handed down by the US Supreme Court. Integration, however, was not a spontaneous event in the South, and it took nearly three years after that decision for the NAACP to help register nine black students at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The response by the Little Rock community was immediate, as local segregationists threatened to block the admission of these students, who would come to be known as "The Little Rock Nine." In response to this crisis, Governor Orville
In the Shadow of the Moon, which opens September 7 through THINKFilm, is a visually stunning theatrical documentary that uses the big screen to take an intimate look into the hearts and minds of the astronauts who journeyed to the moon as part of the Apollo missions from 1968 to 1972. The film uses a combination of archival materials, audio recordings from Mission Control, first-hand testimony from the astronauts and exclusive, never-before-seen NASA film footage to capture a snapshot of a moment in history that still feels incredibly current. One of the main reasons for this is the intimate
The International Meeting of Documentary Co-production, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on September 26 and 27, 2007, was more about than just individual producers and filmmakers trying to find a way to fund their next documentary; it was about taking the first steps towards building a Latin American network of documentary professionals. Guillermo Rossi, head of planoLATINO, the documentary distribution company that organized the meeting, is unabashedly frank about why he organized the meeting. "What needs to be set up in Latin America are the wheels of business to establish a real documentary