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The Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting announced the release of a new draft of the New York City's permit rules. Under the proposed rules, which are designed to codify procedures that have existed in practice since the office was established in 1966, a permit would be required for a shoot if production equipment or vehicles create an obstruction, but not for productions that only use hand-held cameras or tripods that don’t cause an obstruction. What do New York filmmakers think of the new guidelines?

Legendary filmmaker Errol Morris brought us such groundbreaking films as The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War, and Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control. Now Morris's body of work will be the subject of Nonfiction, a forthcoming book of photographs compiled by Nubar Alexanian, which chronicles the past 15 years of the director's career. The book's release will coincide with Morris's next movie, Standard Operating Procedure, a look at the Abu Ghraib scandal.

We've been thrilled with all the e-mail we've received since the site went live. And we're happy that hundreds of former AIVF members have activated their personal accounts (if you haven't yet done so, please head on over to the Interact page). Meanwhile, we've received a lot of questions, such as "Who are you?" and "Do you want to write about my film?" Publisher Michele Meek responds to these inquiries and more on her blog.