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The ITVS Indies Roundup
April 13, 2012A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. Happy poetry month! Read about the “greatest poetry documentary of all time,” according to the Poetry Foundation: Ron Mann’s 1982 Poetry in Motion. A new interactive documentary called Barcode is a carnival funhouse of films. Thirty filmmakers produced 100 docs about the…
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2011 Slate of Diversity Development Fund Films
April 9, 2012ITVS has announced the eleven documentary projects selected as part of the 2011 Diversity Development Fund. This year’s selections provide extraordinary access and insight into the daily lives and struggles of people around the world, from military veterans threatened with deportation in the U.S. to women's human rights struggles in Nigeria. The…
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The ITVS Indies Roundup
April 6, 2012A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. Look, up in the sky! Here comes trouble. When a movie character gawks into the ether, you know something bad is on its way. If you want to avoid this cliche, or simply have a Friday laugh, watch this montage from Devour. (via Open Culture) If you’re at a loss of what to watch this weekend,…
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A Filmmaker’s Embrace of Nonlinear Storytelling
March 30, 2012Musa Syeed is one of the hottest up and coming filmmaking talents in the U.S. His work includes documentaries such as A Son's Sacrifice, Bronx Princess, and a narrative feature, Valley of Saints — which is currently on the festival circuit. He has also been experimenting with new, interactive forms of storytelling, and we asked him to write about his…
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The ITVS Indies Roundup
March 30, 2012A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. The director of the classic Some Like It Hot, Billy Wilder, gave Cameron Crowe some thoughtful filmmaking advice in the 1990s. Though Wilder was talking about screenwriting, his list applies to documentary filmmaking as well, including such gems as “Grab 'em by the throat and…