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 [...]
Through the efforts of various senators, representatives, friends and activists, filmmaker Andrew Berends is on his way back to New York. A big sigh of relief. His translator who was also detained is not out of the woods yet. Here is the latest from the website:
From what we understand, Samuel George, Andrew’s translator, and another [...]
09 Sep
Posted by Agnes Varnum as Big Picture, Creative Process, Education
I almost forgot to post about this, but thanks to The Documentary Channel newsletter, I was reminded. “The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television & Radio) has announced a call for entries for its celebrated Art of the Documentary Pitch Workshop. In this workshop/competition–now in its fourth year–a panel of television executives [...]
17 Jul
Posted by Agnes Varnum as Big Picture, Policy
I was in the fray of this topic around this time last year (wow!). I’m surprised it has taken this long, but good news for independent filmmakers looking to film in New York City:
Commissioner Katherine Oliver of the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting (MOFTB) today announced the adoption of rules governing the issuance [...]
21 May
Posted by Agnes Varnum as Big Picture, Creative Process, Education
Do you want to live in New York and immerse yourself in documentary? Our friends over at UnionDocs have an opening for a new resident in their Brooklyn collective.
About the program
The UnionDocs Residency (UDR) combines an excellent and cooperative living situation with an opportunity for immersion in independent cultural production. It’s a structure for working [...]
WHEN: Wednesday, May 21, at 7 PM
WHERE: Screening room of Goldcrest Post (799 Washington Street, between Horatio and Gansevoort)
COST: Admission is free for current DocuClub members and $5 for non-members. To join DocuClub, go to: http://www.artsengine.net/store/#tools_consul
RSVP to: docuclub@artsengine.net
“Join us as we watch Personality by Vinay Chowdry and Sarita Khurana. In the film, a Bollywood background [...]
Cinereach is a non-profit based in NYC dedicated to promoting socially conscious filmmaking. To that end, they have a grant program and a small fellowship program, The Reach Film Fellowship. Four young filmmakers received $5,000 and mentoring from top documentarians Albert Maysles (Salesman), Sandi Dubowski (Trembling Before G-d), Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp) and Afia Nathaniel, an acclaimed independent [...]
I wrote a 1200+ word article for indieWIRE last month, Doc Filmmakers Guide to the IFP Market, geared toward filmmakers who are taking a project to this year’s incarnation. Naturally, I got more responses from generous past participants than I had room to include so I generalized and used pertinent quotes, etc., but one message [...]
Sometimes coined “mumblecore,” a new group of young filmmakers has emerged on the film festival circuit in the past few years. Embracing intimate stories, low budget shooting techniques, improvised dialogue, and untrained actors, these films fall far outside the studio system and instead rely on a core group of collaborators to tell achingly real stories [...]
With stenciled Bolex camera protest signs and no permit to assemble, some 400 people demonstrated at a downtown Manhattan rally on Friday to protest New York’s moves to alter rules that govern filming and photography on the city’s streets. On that same day, members of NYC’s independent film community met with the Mayors Office of [...]
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