The ITVS Indie Roundup

Posted on February 15, 2013

A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval. 

Year after year, you’re frustrated with the Academy’s choices. Now is your chance to set the record straight. The New York Times is collecting your picks for the Oscars. 

Today is the deadline to submit to Rooftop Films! See your movie blazoned across an outdoor screen on a balmy, New York summer night (via @povdocs) Follow the flurry of Twitter activity around the hashtag #MTMDC, or Media that Matters, a Washington, D.C. conference that examines how to measure of media’s impact, among other topics.

Here’s the full slideshow of the keynote address: Measurement, Meaning, and Momentum: Storytelling in the Age of Data.

Familiar with the 180-degree rule? Free online filmmaking tutorials by Lights Film School teach this and other tidbits in short videos. 

English-speaking residents of the Middle East: Documentary training awaits you. Goethe-Institut Kairo is accepting applications for its documentary workshops, conducted in English, in Cairo this April, Tunis in July, and Leipzig in October. 

The 2013 Short of the Week Awards have been announced! Watch the nine wonderful winners here.

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