The Next Big Thing – Street Fighting Man!
March 13, 2013
The sound stylists at the Boolean Studio house band (aka Twin Goat) tagged yours truly as part of The Next Big Thing.
Neither/Nor at True/False
March 7, 2013
With all the reports filtering back Eastward from the 2013 True/False Film Festival in Columbia, MO as a non-eyewitness I can’t really pin down what happened out there, between the game shows, parades, parties and secret screenings and the festival’s commitment to questioning the genre line between fact and fiction.
Getting the Scoop on Multimedia News at MIT
March 2, 2013
I recently went to “Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News,” a discussion with Jason Spingarn-Koff, of the New York Times, and Alexandra Garcia, multimedia journalist at the Washington Post and current Neiman Fellow for journalism at Harvard University.
The Future of the Art House Cinema
February 26, 2013
In this time of scarce resources and DIY/DIWO attitudes, it’s rare that a week (or a day) will go by without an alert from a friend about their new Kickstarter campaign raising dollars to start/finish/distribute their film project.
The Cinema Eye Forum and the Inspiration of Indies
January 16, 2013
For the past two years, the LEF Foundation has supported a forum created by the team at the Cinema Eye Honors. The Forum takes place each year the morning of the event, gathering Cinema Eye nominees and industry leaders for a round table discussion. The intent is to engage filmmakers in a discussion of their experiences and challenges, find areas of mutual benefit and concern, and strive to work collectively toward learning and change.
Blue Potato and a Salute to Transparency
January 16, 2013
Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly are the poster children for the new generation of entrepreneurial independent filmmakers.
Moments of Innovation
November 19, 2012
As many of you know, any study of the history of technology reveals that it is often at the moment of invention when a technology is used in the most transgressive, creative, and inspirational ways.
The People Formerly Known As The Subject – Katrina Cizek & Gerry Flahive at The MIT Open Doc Lab
October 24, 2012
We are so fortunate, here in Boston, to have the resources of the MIT Open Doc Lab in our backyard. Last night I attended “The People Formerly Known As the Subject,” a presentation by the amazing Katrina Cizek and Gerry Flahive – the minds and motivation behind HIGHRISE.
2012 Camden International Film Festival
October 5, 2012
This past weekend was the Camden International Film Festival in Camden, ME, and the staff of LEF New England turned out in its entirety.
Scott MacDonald at the MIT DocLab
October 4, 2012
On September 19, I went to a salon-style event organized by the MIT Open Doc Lab where author and film scholar Scott Macdonald talked about his new book The Cambridge Turn.
Independent Film Week – A New View
September 26, 2012
I juggle a lot of hats in this inspiring, and often bewildering, game we call documentary. Program Director at the LEF Foundation is one of them. Programmer at The DocYard is another. And a third, of which I am very proud, is Producer of the non-fiction feature film (currently in post-production) Street Fighting Man. It was with this last hat on that I set off to New York for Independent Film Week, last week.
A Conversation with Eric Gulliver, Assistant Editor at FRONTLINE
September 18, 2012
There are many people locally who are working feverishly ( how else) and somewhat below the radar ( no surprise) in all aspects of the media industry.
