ITVS Interactive Projects Awarded NEA Funding
The National Endowment for the Arts has selected two ITVS interactive projects to receive funding through its Arts in Media Grants.
This week, the National Endowment for the Arts announced projects selected for funding through its Arts in Media Grants Program. We’re proud to announce that two interactive projects, funded through ITVS’s Project 360 Initiative, have garnered NEA support.
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The ITVS Indies Roundup
A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval.
Good news continues to pour in from the passage of the JOBS Act. For example, indie filmmakers could raise up to one million dollars. Cue the Dr. Evil face.
Can the art-form of cinéma vérité and Werner Herzog benefit from the input of technologists? MIT Open Documentary Lab thinks so. “There’s this perception that documentary is this staid medium,” Sarah Wolozin, director of the new Open Documentary Lab, told Nieman Journalism Lab. “It’s not. It is this place of innovation. And I think a lot of documentary filmmakers have lost their connection to that history.”
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A FUTURESTATES Double Header: Watch Charlie 13 and Gunny
The FUTURESTATES shorts will be streamed live through ITVS’s new social video player starting on Thursday, April 26 at 5PM PT / 8PM ET with a screening of Charlie 13 followed by Gunny. Filmmakers Michael McMillian (Charlie 13) and Patrick Stettner (Gunny) will be chatting live to discuss their film and take your questions.
About Charlie 13
On the eve of his 13th birthday, will Charlie Tuttle submit to a government-mandated tracking implant, or answer a more dangerous call to adventure?
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Muslim Stories Marinate Hawaiian Style
Filmmaker Justin Mashouf was one of six filmmakers invited to the Diverse Muslim Voices Exchange, hosted by the Doris Duke Foundation of Islamic Arts and ITVS. He offered BTB this roundup of the Exchange, held April 3-5, 2012 in Hawaii.
The Diverse Muslim Voices Exchange was held at the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art at Shangri-La.
Collaboration is the best teacher and earlier this month, my classroom was a recreated 17th century Mughal garden overlooking the crisp blue ocean in Honolulu. Life is tough. I was fortunate enough to be included among the six filmmakers working on Muslim themed documentaries invited to fly to out to Hawaii for a 3-day meeting of the minds at the Diverse Muslim Voices Exchange. The event was hosted by The Doris Duke Foundation of Islamic Art at Shangri-La, the residence of the late Ms. Duke, which houses one of the world’s most unique private collections of Islamic Art.
We were invited to workshop and pitch our stories to funders from Ford Foundation, Tribeca Film Institute, Black Public Media, and the Center for Asian American Media. I had come to pitch a film I have been researching for four years about men who convert to Islam in prison and their journey transitioning out of incarceration. › Continue reading
Live Streaming of Lives Worth Living
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Diversity Committee and ITVS invites members to attend a special screening and discussion of Lives Worth Living on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 7pm PT in North Hollywood, CA. The discussion will also be streamed via webcast on Emmys.com & Emmys.tv.
Civil rights are taken for granted in the United States. However, for a diverse population of more than 54 million Americans — those with disabilities — it is an ongoing struggle. Lives Worth Living is television’s most comprehensive history of the disability rights movement. It opens a window into the world of citizens with an unwavering determination to live their lives like everyone else. It is also a journey through the past when millions of people lived without access to schools, work, public transportation, and housing. Charismatic leaders of the movement narrate the story of this long, hard, and successful drive for civil rights that brought together a once fragmented population into a powerful coalition that created some of the most far reaching civil rights legislation in our nation’s history … and around the world. › Continue reading
Gunny: A FUTURESTATES Online Social Screening
ITVS presents a social screening of FUTURESTATES: Gunny. This event will take place online Thursday, April 26 at 5PM PT / 8PM ET.
Join us for a social screening of FUTURESTATES Episode 3: Gunny with filmmaker Patrick Stettner, who will be taking part in the screening to talk about the film and take your questions live.
Participants can join for free by signing in with Facebook or directly on the site, interacting with other viewers and panelists in real-time, while watching the film. Viewers can comment, ask questions, take polls, and even express their feelings about what they’re watching through a variety of tools on the site. This is an entirely new way of experiencing documentary films and it is inherently social. › Continue reading
How to Get Your Film on Public Television
POV Series Producer Yance Ford will be hosting a Twitter chat this Wednesday, April
25, 2012, at 7 PM ET/ 4 PM PT, answering questions about how to get your film on public television.
How does a filmmaker navigate the public television submission process? What do series’ look for in a film? Should I wait until I have a fine cut to submit? A public television broadcast can be a homerun for independent filmmakers hoping to expand their audience and raise awareness around certain social issues, but often filmmakers find themselves plagued with questions about the process.
POV Series Producer Yance Ford will be on the #docchat Twitter chat this Wednesday, April 25, 2012, at 7pm ET/ 4pm PT, answering questions about getting your film on public television. POV encourages documentary filmmakers to ask Ford, who will be tweeting from @povdocs, questions beforehand using the hashtag #docchat or in a comment on their website. In addition to general questions about public television submissions, Yance will also answer specific questions you might have about POV’s Call for Entries. To learn more about the event, http://itvs.images.s3.amazonaws.com/btb/btb_povtwitterchat.jpg
Charlie 13 Premieres on FUTURESTATES
Directed by Michael McMillain the film will be available to stream for free at futurestates.tv and simultaneously on pbs.org.
On the eve of his 13th birthday, will Charlie Tuttle submit to a government-mandated tracking implant, or answer a more dangerous call to adventure? Learn more about Charlie 13 from filmmaker Michael McMillain in a recently conducted Skype interview, after the jump.
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Bhutto Producer Mark Siegel Reflects on Benazir Bhutto
Mark Siegel, co-producer of the documentary Bhutto, discusses his relationship with the former Prime Minister of Pakistan. The film, which aired last season on Independent Lens, earned a Peabody award earlier this month. Siegel and filmmaker Duane Baughman will accept the prestigious award on May 21 in New York.
The ITVS Indies Roundup
A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval.
‘Tis the season for film festivals: Both the Tribeca Film Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival kicked off this week.
Read an enlightening interview of three Tribeca staffers to get a sense of how they winnowed down their film festival choices. “We don’t respect the idea of, ‘I like this, I don’t like this,’” Genna Terranova, director of programming, told The New York Times. “You have to explain why, almost as if you’re looking at it as an academic evaluation. But at the same time, you have to add that human observation: Were you moved? Were you scared?”
Frédéric Boyer, artistic director at Tribeca, was also interviewed by The Awl. The man watches movies like no other: “It was impossible to have children or any love affair because my priority was to watch films,” Boyer said about his early career. “It was a wonderful period because it was a crazy period. I was watching five, six, seven films each day and reading books about cinema. Fortunately, I escaped from this beautiful prison because of music, women, wine, food, life.”
Are you wondering how the JOBS Act might affect you as a filmmaker? This handy guide from Filmmaker Magazine explains how the act will transform indie film funding. › Continue reading
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