Dispatch from Toronto | Hot Docs ’10: Pitch Perfect at the Toronto Documentary Forum by Basil Tsiokos (May 7, 2010) The scene at the Toronto Documentary Forum. Photo courtesy of Hot Docs/Joseph Michael. Hundreds of broadcasters, funders, filmmakers, and other observers convened this Wednesday and Thursday morning for the Toronto Documentary Forum, North America’s largest [...]
The Japanese I-400 Class Submarine was an underwater aircraft carrier — a top-secret weapon so potent that it very nearly changed the course of the war. JAPANESE SUPER SUB answers many questions that still surround this unusual weapon: How did the Japanese create this technological marvel? How dangerous was it? Could it really have changed [...]
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Tribeca looks to expand notion of film festival By JAKE COYLE (AP) – 6 days ago NEW YORK — When British director Mat Whitecross was growing up in Oxford, only so many movies screened in his local cinema — and not the intriguing movies he read about playing at film festivals or elsewhere. Whitecross estimates [...]
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via video.mountainlake.org For anyone who missed the broadcast premiere of Food, Inc. last night on Mountain Lake PBS… here’s a less known short film from POV that aired immediately afterward. A lyrical 20 minute piece with a little known story that affects us all.
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The Workbook Project, Lance Weiler’s “open source” media collaboration platform pulled off its third outstanding DIY days event in NYC over the weekend. I’ll be posting some great links, thoughts and feedback this week on what I’ve learned, but here’s one for today: a spinoff of the WB project has developed this award-winning 3 minute [...]
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This nice article described a little about our production of Forgotten War. The photographer was an intern how worked with us for several months.
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Mountain Lake used green screen technology to great effect in our recent documentary “Forgotten War” (all the interviews) and continue to use it in studio on a pretty frequent basis. What many of us don’t realize is just how many “Hollywood” projects rely on virtual sets & green screen to complete their shots. Check out [...]
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OK… some of this stuff in this one page pdf is pretty basic… but it never hurts to review. 39-Steps A Guide to Approaching Funders and Donors for Independent Film and Documentary CounterCulture Independent Filmmakers’ Resource, Mar 2010
clipped from mashable.com “Earth Days” PBS Documentary to Premiere on Facebook Feature-length documentary film Earth Days will premiere on Facebook with a live video stream and a chat at 8 p.m. EST on April 11, more than a week before the over-the-air PBS television premiere at 9 p.m. EST on April 19. The film chronicles the [...]
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