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 footage [...]
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Look out – here come’s mobile film-making! No excuses – the editing application is in the phone! via vimeo.com
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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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Here is my response to the provocative site PBS revolution and the thoughtful post by John Proffitt posted yesterday. Colin Powers said… Like John, I’m interested to see how the dialogue develops on some of your provocative ideas. Anyone involved in the PBS system who doesn’t feel the pain of investing heavily in distribution technology [...]
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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