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 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 readingStrictly Film School
A pretty amazing site given that its authored by a single person. This site is devoted to serious and usually esoteric cinema much of which is difficult if not imposssible to find on video. In a nutshell, it teaches the average joe, myself included, just how little he/she really knows about film. The author is […]
Continue readingUpcoming event from the Center for Social Media – May 3
The Center for Social Media at AU and Women in Film and Video will be holding a session “Getting the Rights Right” on Wednesday, May 3. Everything filmmakers should know about copyright, public domain, creative commons and fair use. Panelists include: Pat Aufderheide, Director of the Center for Social Media, School of Communications, AU; Lauren […]
Continue reading‘nother list: This time it’s Roger Ebert’s 101 Movies you must see before …
The criterion is different from his list of the greatest films in that he chose titles for their cultural significance. Included are lesser films that nevertheless attained iconic status including Carrie, The Crying Game, Easy Rider, The Exorcist, and Fight Club. Most major directors are represented by no more than a single film, intentionally. My […]
Continue reading“The 50 Greatest Independent Films”
A British film website called Empire Online has a list of what they deem “The 50 Greatest Independent Films” Here it is along with Media Services call numbers for the ones we own. In countdown order: 50. El Mariachi VHS 294749. Run Lola Run DVD 9248. Cube DVD 7847. Blood Feast 46. Texas Chainsaw Massacre […]
Continue readingCopyright and Documentary Filmmaking: the Comic Book
A tight dressed, spiky haired filmmaker turns into a tight dressed, spiky haired superhero to fight expanding copyright restrictions. The Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke University School of Law has a novel way of presenting the current difficulties documentary filmmakers are facing. The comic book, Bound by Law? by Keith […]
Continue readingHistorical Nuclear Test Film Archive
The Department of Energy’s website has streaming video of about 75 nuclear tests from the 1940s to the 1970s, many recently declassified – the site is much more exhaustive than anything I’ve seen on this subject previously. link
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