"you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on an education you coulda' picked up for a dollar fifty in late charges at the Public Library."
When you don’t have access to a TV, you miss out on a few things: 10 o’clock news, funny infomercials, QVC… (all sorely missed), but access to movies isn’t one of them. Sara wrote at the Public Humanist earlier this year about online media viewing – I’ve been thinking about a more low-fi model of TV replacement: DVDs from the library.
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LEF's next deadline is coming up - New England filmmakers put your best feet forward.
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Documentary work comes in all forms. At LEF, we focus on the long-format documentary film; however we appreciate the genre for all the ways artists help us to understand, capture, and question the real. One of the leading organizations in the country focusing on the craft of audio storytelling is the Third Coast International Audio Festival.
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It's already time to start thinking about the fall film festivals and your hit list of "must attends," ESPECIALLY for New England filmmakers, should include the Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) taking place Sept. 30th through Oct. 3rd!
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Update: 2010 Flaherty Film Seminar
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If it’s too late for you to start bilingual-immersion kindergarten like the kids in Speaking in Tongues, second-language films are one way to get exposure
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Among the many satisfying elements of working in the world of documentary funding is seeing a project that your foundation supports gain further recognition, grant support, and accolades from the industry broadly. At LEF, one name that we frequently see stand out in the crowd of funders is CINEREACH.
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Watching Fred Wiseman’s Hospital at the last Docyard screening, as patients at New York’s Metropolitan Hospital bled and vomited their way into our hearts, I kept wondering “How is he filming this?”
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Every time I get an email from Union Docs about what their programming is for the coming week, I want to jump in my car and drive immediately to Brooklyn to make sure I'm first in line.
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