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At least 20 staffers and top level execs resign from Fest and Film Society.
New models for reaching big screen audiences.
Dear IDA Community: I can vividly recall my first political moment, when, amid a snowstorm, we were sent home early from school. My Papa gathered us around our brand new massive black-and-white TV to watch a historic speech, and he explained to us the significance of the man who, in his view, "was about to change the world." On January 20, 1961, I was barely a first grader. I heard the newly inaugurated US President John F. Kennedy declare, "My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." As I spent most of this summer
National Association of Latino Independent Producers celebrates its tenth anniversary.
See video from latest IDA event, An Evening with Robert Greenwald.
Fernando Birri, the founder of modern Argentine--as well as Latin American-- documentary cinema, defined the enemy as "subcinema." His 1962 Manifesto of Santa Fe concludes that the social documentary's revolutionary function in Latin America demands that filmmakers "put [themselves] before reality with a camera and document it, document the underdevelopment. The cinema that makes itself an accomplice to this underdevelopment is a subcinema." Birri based his conclusion on research he conducted with his students at the Documentary School of Santa Fe from 1956 through 1958, which also resulted in
Filmmaker says goodbye to General Motors, offers advice for reorganization.