Mountain Lake PBS Productions

This follows from my earlier post about the Ben Franklin Project… use these to save money! Tools There are tons of free and good tools online to help public broadcasters (and others) accomplish essential online media tasks such as creating and posting image, audio and video files, having audience share content with one another, and [...]

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This is a year-old post from Rick Prelinger, film archivist extraordinaire and the founder of the internet archive He’s going where few dare to tread these days, as the documentary form seems to get more rigid and codified with every passing year. The original post also features some interesting responses. Taking history back from the [...]

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For many state agencies, the first rounds of budget cuts over the past two years could be managed without greatly affecting key programs and services for the public. But as funding cuts go deeper and last longer, often a tipping point is reached where agencies are no longer able to simply tighten their belts but [...]

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I worry about not having a nice inky newspaper to read over Sunday (or any) breakfast, but Gillmor takes aim at the big, greedy side of the media conglomerates. He sees web-based journalism replacing (and maybe doing a better job than) the old model. I wonder, though, if there’s no editor to screen and vet [...]

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Skatopia hits PBS… Brewce & Laurie Video Interview without comments Laurie House and Brewce Martin of Skatopia are interveiwed by Thom Hallock of Mountain Lake Journal about Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy. The movie will be playing June 11 at 11PM at the Lake Placid Film Forum. ShareThis Written by colin Edit June 8th, 2010 [...]

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Lance Weiler, visionary filmmaker and DIY distribution expert, gives an overview of his highly inventive and cutting-edge distribution strategy for second feature Head Trauma. Lance reveals how he used no cost online tools to create huge buzz around the movie and how he expanded the audience for his film through multimedia remix cinema events and [...]

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It’s fair to say that this’ll be the only time Skatopia shares the bill with Hal Holbrook and Parker Posey! Come check us out in Lake Placid – June 11th at 11 PM! skatopia: 88 acres of anarchy. june 11 at 11. May 25, 2010 by tjbrearton There’s a lot of talk out there about anarchy, [...]

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The following farewell email went out last Friday to the staff of Channel 13, New York’s PBS station. It’s a scorcher. From Sam Topperoff: Farewell Address May 21, 2010 Farewells are inevitable. This is mine. I’ve been here, mostly at WLIW but a bit at WNET as a producer, writer, director for twenty-one years, even [...]

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I really didn’t mean for these to appear in alphabetical order, but here’s a teaser for fellow student Mark Barroso’s film A Puppet Intervention. When I read about it I thought I knew what I’d see (seen lots of activist puppet stuff living in Philly, Eugene, Berkeley). These have to be seen to be appreciated. [...]

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