I just discovered this blog but have known Agnes for several years as one of the people responsible for getting the Center for Social Media up and running. She’s still around but seems to be pretty busy with other projects so we haven’t seen much of her lately. Anyway she’s been blogging since March 2006 […]
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Silver Docs line-up of festival films announced
Tickets are not only on sale now but some are reportedly close to selling out. Silver Docs as noted in an earlier entry runs June 13-18 at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, MD. Easily reachable from the AU campus via Metro’s Red Line. It’s just up Colesville Rd. from the […]
Continue readingPBS’s documentary series POV commences its 19th season June 27th with No More Tears Sister
This year’s series of films runs every week on Tuesday nights from June 27 to October 3. In Washington, DC it airs on WETA at 10pm. There are sixteen titles in all that will be aired this summer. Note to educators: P.O.V. documentaries can be taped off-the-air and used for educational purposes for up to […]
Continue readingCongress schedules hearing on Smithsonian – Showtime deal
press release –Media Advisory: Ehlers schedules hearing on Smithsonian Institution Business VenturesWASHINGTON – Chairman Vernon J. Ehlers, R-Mich., announced today that the Committee on House Administration will conduct a hearing on the operations and investments of Smithsonian Business Ventures, including Smithsonian on Demand, at 12 noon, Thursday, May 25, 2006, in room 1310 of the […]
Continue readingFilm Festival News: 4th Annual Silver Docs at AFI in Silver Spring
June 13-18. The keynote address at this year’s festival will be given by Al Gore. The festival includes awards, screenings, workshops, and networking opportunities for documentary filmmakers. Among this year’s gala events is an evening with Martin Scorsese (Thursday, June 15, 7pm) who will be joined by Robbie Robertson, the leader of The Band, the […]
Continue readingObit: Elma Gardner Farnsworth, 98, wife of Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television
We all owe a great debt to Philo T. Farnsworth. He’s known to many, but not most, as the true inventor of what became television. Married in 1926, Elma was at the side of Philo when he first tested the invention he had conceived seven years earlier while going back and forth plowing a field […]
Continue readingFrom the screen to the streets – life imitates art: A day without a Mexican (DVD 1008)
From the ALADIN record –“California awakens one day to discover that one third of its population has vanished. A peculiar pink fog surrounds the state and communication outside its boundaries has completely shut down. As the day progresses, it becomes apparent the sole characteristic linking the missing 14 million is their Hispanic heritage. Based on […]
Continue readingMust-see video: In the Realms of the Unreal
This documentary provides probably as much of the story of outsider artist Henry Darger as you are ever likely to learn. Darger was a recluse who avoided all but a few people during his relatively long life. Upon being admitted to a hospital late in life, his life’s work, an enormous and truly unique trove […]
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