There's always something great going on at the Maine Media Workshops,
a fantastic educational center to hone your craft in filmmaking,
photography, multi-media and design located in lovely Rockport, Maine. Next week, they are tapping the local talent by hosting a workshop on documentary financing and distribution with filmmaker and rep extraordinaire Louise Rosen!
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Hats off to Channel 4 BRITDOC for taking on the huge challenge of tracking what kind of difference a documentary can make!
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When I was at film school, they called it killing your children.
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From July 28 through July 30, Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport, Maine is hosting its 12 thAnnual Summer Symposium: “Das Wunderkino: A Cinematic Cabinet of Curiosities.” With presentations on peepshow phenomenology, magician/taylor/filmmakers, laryngoscopes, amateur-made trick films, 1980s Australian youth culture, and much more, this is a conference that sounds like it will mentally transport participants even farther than the 227 miles it takes to get there from Boston.
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Most people have a summer reading list. I have a summer screening list. Which, thanks to Mike Stoltz, has just gotten longer. LEF Flaherty Fellow Mike Stoltz gives us his "must see" list from the seminar.
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Please share in the Flaherty glow. Jesse Epstein shines it brightly!
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It’s our first big chunk of downtime at the Flaherty Seminar. We’ve seen some great work so far and started some interesting discussions.
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I've arrived at the 57th annual Flaherty Seminar and just finished our first round of orientations for Fellows - about 28 interesting people coming from all over the U.S. (though Brooklyn is a little over-represented!) and Latin America. As I write, the other 100+ filmmakers, critics, and programmers are arriving - and our first happy hour begins soon. I'm looking forward to watching dozens of documentary films this week... and to the legendary discussions to follow.
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I had the privilege of attending a tribute to Ricky Leacock over the
weekend at MIT's Media Lab. The program was filled with honest, funny,
and moving stories from those who knew him best - his collaborators, his
students, and, of course, his beloved family.
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Last weekend I headed out to the Chicago Underground Film Festival, which was was a great experience. One refreshing thing was seeing shorts of different genres programmed together, instead of separated bycategory dividers between documentary, narrative and experimental films.
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