Re:Sources was launched with a great article by professor of film studies and blogger Chuck Tryon, Teaching Media Literacy in the Age of YouTube. I wanted to kick off this blog on that particular note because whatever we might say about creation, distribution, or even the policies that effect media production, all of us involved […]

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Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky shares some creative whimsy at a masterclass at this year’s IDFA. While there is the usual dose of festival updates and such, new this year is the Daily Online website sporting some nice clips such as this, articles and even a short blog by Canadian doc filmmaker Peter Wintonick (Cinema Verite, […]

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A big congratulations to Media Arts Fellow Guillermo Arriaga who received a Golden Globe nomination today for best screenplay for Babel.
Arriaga received a fellowship in 2001 for Una historia, tres visions (One Story, Three Visions). He went on to write such critically successful films as Amores Perros and 21 Grams.

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The saga of the Federal Communications Commission and its censorship of “indecency” on radio and broadcast television may be coming to a climax in the next few months. Through a combination of administrative maneuvering and broadcast industry reluctance to challenge the same agency that gives it valuable licenses, the FCC’s constitutionally dubious censorship scheme […]

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Just back from the Impact workshop “Where Content Meets Intent: Ensuring Impact in Film”, which Renew Media organized for 11 documentary fellows. The four day program was run by Robert West and Judith Helfand of Working Films and focused on creating outreach strategies to connect film projects with audiences.
Special guest Peter Broderick presented a […]

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