Both sides have claimed early victories in the case of documentarian Joe Berlinger vs. Chevron over access to the raw footage he shot for his expose “Crude” on Amazonian oil exploitation. I’ve blogged about the case and the filmmaking community reaction here.
On Thursday, the appeals judge ruled that Berlinger must turn over Crude [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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