Documentary Voices: Pulling Focus, the first ever United Arab Emirate-area initiative to focus strictly on documentary films, will premiere in Dubai, UAE, July 4 - 8, 2008. Screenings and workshops will be held at Knowledge Village, Dubai’s state-of-the-art destination for educational opportunities. Documentary Voices: Pulling Focus will highlight perspectives on culture, society and […]

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I’m not trying to be sassy about this at all (ok, the post title is a bit…), but I just read Jonathan Marlow’s excellent column at GreenCine, The Didn’t Build Their Sales Model For You. It reads to me as a good summary of where things have been for last couple of years in film […]

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I’m here to introduce a new blog that’s part of TFI’s new Reframe project. As a New York-based arts blogger and a film fan, I will be exploring the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival as well as discovering ties between new films and ones in the Reframe collection.
Think how many scenes you’ve seen in the movies […]

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I recently interviewed indie filmmaker, Paola Mendoza, for my own blog. In our conversation, we talked about all the aspects or “jobs” one needs to master as an independent entity creating art in this country right now and the places filmmakers can turn in order to learn how to do those all-important tasks, such […]

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Tomorrow, the 15th iteration of the Canadian International Documentary Festival, aka, Hot Docs, will begin. The week’s activities encompass the festival, Doc Soup and Youth Programmes, as well as the Toronto Documentary Forum, The Doc Shop, Conference and Market–lots going on. I will be up there the latter part of the week, but […]

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