I just got back from Sheffield Doc/Fest and boy o boy, do I feel bad for UK filmmakers! The “clearance culture” as the folks at the Center for Social Media call it, is totally out of control. It is so bad that I at one point an Irish filmmaker told me that the UK has […]

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Documentary magazine editor Tom White pointed me to a great article by filmmaker Paul Devlin over at The Independent. Devlin has a new film, BLAST!, that he launched at this year’s HotDocs. He shares his experiences navigating the festival experience with valuable insight:
Festival programmers want virgins. So choose wisely where your film is going to […]

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I’m getting this out to you a bit late to submit, but another great initiative using film to engage the delegates at the Democractic National Convention. From the website (where you can watch submissions thus far…):
Cinemocracy is a platform for commentary and inspiration for citizen reporters, activists and filmmakers. Free to enter, free to view […]

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There are some really exciting film events being planned around the national political conventions! Yesterday the Impact Film Festival announced their line-up of films. About the festival (from the website):
Impact Film Festival is a four-day event held during the 2008 Democratic and Republican Conventions in Denver and Minneapolis. IFF will showcase two to three socially-themed […]

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It still surprises me that there are filmmakers unfamiliar with Withoutabox.com, the film festival submission site. You enter all of the information about your project and it allows you to select the festival you wish to submit to, you pay your entry fee and the festival gets access to all of that information you entered. […]

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