Apologies for getting this to you a bit late, as the tribute screenings showing the work of the late St. Clair Bourne began yesterday. However, there is still plenty more to come so if you are in NYC, here are the details, straight from the press release:
Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee and Melvin Van Peebles honored [...]
This year we are proud to have 12 Fellows at Sundance. Congratulations to the following filmmakers and new media artists. Be sure to check out their work in Park City. Messages to them can be delivered by emailing mediaartists@renewmedia.org.
Dramatic Competition
Alex Rivera (1998) – with Fellowships Funded project Sleep Dealer
David Riker (1999) – as co-screenwriter [...]
For those in New York City wishing to pay their respects to St. Clair Bourne and his family, here are the details on an upcoming memorial service.
A Memorial Service will be held at 7:00 pm on the 25th of January 2008 at The Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive, Manhattan, with a reception following. A small [...]
I regret to inform those who haven’t heard that veteran documentary filmmaker St. Clair Bourne has passed on. Besides his blog and films that remain as his legacy, I’d venture to say that St. Clair hadn’t received quite as much recognition in his lifetime as he deserved. His passing is untimely and I predict more [...]
Welcome to the launch of Resources’ podcast! We love our guest bloggers and figured another way to make more voices heard in this forum would to do some interviews! Enter podcasting (you may remember my trip to PodCamp to pick up some tips and tricks…).
Our first episode is with Philip Mallory Jones, a 2004 Renew [...]
A big congratulations to Media Arts Fellow Guillermo Arriaga who received a Golden Globe nomination today for best screenplay for Babel.
Arriaga received a fellowship in 2001 for Una historia, tres visions (One Story, Three Visions). He went on to write such critically successful films as Amores Perros and 21 Grams.
Just back from the Impact workshop “Where Content Meets Intent: Ensuring Impact in Filmâ€, which Renew Media organized for 11 documentary fellows. The four day program was run by Robert West and Judith Helfand of Working Films and focused on creating outreach strategies to connect film projects with audiences.
Special guest Peter Broderick presented a [...]
As 2006 comes to a close, Renew Media launched its new name with a get together of Fellows, supporters and staff at the 20 Greene Street Gallery in NYC last week. Says Renew’s executive director Brian Newman, “We changed our name to Renew Media to reflect our commitment to pushing the field in innovative [...]