This is the transcript of a VPR radio segment that you can listen to here. The film will be playing at the upcoming Lake Placid Film Forum, but this article discusses a Vermont premiere. VPR/Lynne McCrea (Charnoff) Today kicks off the sixth annual White River Indie Film Festival, in White River Junction. Among the films [...]
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Below is an invaluable tool for anyone seeking to write a pitch document for a grant, private investor, foundation or broadcaster. I’ve been referring to it for several years and re-read every six months or so. I’d add to the discussion several key points: 1) Describe (early in your treatment) what you want to accomplish [...]
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I’m thrilled to have been selected to attend the 25 person “CPB/PBS Producer’s Academy” at WGBH in Boston in late June. As students we have already been assigned quite a bit of homework and have learned who are classmates are. A very accomplished lot! Here is a short video about the most recent work of [...]
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Throughout the ongoing transition from analog to digital broadcasting, we’ve struggled with the multiple formats that our servers, sat receivers and master control equipment have to contend with. One of the worst developments is to find 4:3 (original TV ratio) programs showing up “postage stamped” with black bars at the sides AND the top and [...]
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This group is looking worldwide, but I wonder how PBS might respond to this group’s plea. Lobby group wants to make docs a priority for PSBs by Kelly Anderson At the recent Hot Docs festival, MercuryMedia CEO Tim Sparke took the opportunity to announce the launch of the Documentary Distributors’ Association, a group that aims [...]
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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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