Sundance Awards to Fellow Rivera

29 Jan

Posted by Agnes Varnum as Creative Process, Miscellaneous

Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer walked away from Sundance 08 a big winner, taking home two prizes, the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for outstanding achievement in writing, presented to Alex Rivera and David Riker for their screenplay, and the Alfred P. Sloan Prize. The Prize, which carries a $20,000 cash award to the filmmaker provided […]

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Documentary Collective Looking for Residents

21 Jan

Posted by Pamela Cohn as Creative Process, Education, Outreach

UnionDocs, a documentary arts collaborative based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has two open slots for new residents. The collective was just awarded an NYSCA exhibition grant to support their Documentary Bodega series where they show works-in-progress by local filmmakers.
The residencies start March 1 and they’re taking applications now. It’s a communal living/workspace situation with […]

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Making Media Matter

12 Jan

Posted by Pamela Cohn as Big Picture, Creative Process, Distribution, Education, Policy

The Making Your Media Matter ‘08 conference is slated for February 7 and 8 at the Katzen Arts Center at American University in Washington, DC. Keynote speakers, Byron Hurt and Sonya Childress will open the two day symposium. This will be my first time attending, so stay tuned for more on this in […]

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Human Community, Global Mind: A Talk with Breakthrough Distribution

25 Dec

Posted by Pamela Cohn as Big Picture, Creative Process, Distribution, Education

In Virginia Heffernan’s article entitled, “Artists Only,” in the December 23 issue of the New York Times Magazine, she says, “For young people, joining a virtual community–one far vaster than can be cultivated in the finite social world–is the first step in fashioning an identity, and later an artistic persona. The trade-off for steadfastly […]