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More Rights Issues: Rock Legends

In case you haven’t discovered it yet, Warren Cohen started up a nice blog about music docs, Docs That Rock. Since his day job is over at VH1’s Rock Docs, he is a great person to keep us informed on the music doc scene. He has hit the nail on the head as to why […]

What an awesome job in exhibition! Application deadline is August 15. Get on it:
Northwest Film Forum in Seattle seeks an Executive Director to pilot the thriving, growing non-profit film arts organization. The Executive Director takes the lead in shaping the vision of the organization, oversees all of Northwest Film Forum’s operations, spearheads development and fundraising […]

Fair Use for Online Video

I’m a bit late in posting about a new, very important resource. I wanted to review the document before posting. Based on the Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use, The Center for Social Media at American University has continued to help content creators identify and express what fair use means in creating […]

Tools of the Trade

A couple of interesting emails came to my inbox recently. First, Celtx, a free pre-production software bundle. I haven’t used it so I’d be curious to hear any reactions, but the website boats screenplay formatting, storyboarding, scheduling, call sheets and various reporting. I might have posted about this before while the product was in beta. […]

The SPIN Academy

I’m bringing this to you trey late, but you still have two days! I attended a mini-SPIN workshop right before the NAMAC conference in October and found it to be valuable in context of my work as communications manager for the Austin Film Society. If you are struggling with messaging, or just want to hone […]

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