April 2004

Diversity Initiatives

marla — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0600

The Sundance Film Festival hosted a record number of attendees this year. Up double from last year, 40,000 people came to watch or show films, participate in panel discussions, and network.

National Center for Outreach

marla — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0600

Public television stations have always been dedicated to airing programs that help their communities. But after the programs have aired, how can inspired community members actually take up the cause?

PBS’s Double Bind

marla — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0600

There’s a phenomenon afoot that is increasingly evident this year—at Sundance, Real Screen, and beyond. Let’s call it producer fatigue; what was formerly indignation with PBS has morphed into simple dismissal. It seems so complicated, the thought goes, why work with public television at all?

Orlando Bagwell

marla — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0600

After twenty years behind the lens, Orlando Bagwell is putting down his camera. But his recently Sundance-screened Citizen King is not his swan song.

Scenarios USA

marla — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0600

Scenarios USA, a nonprofit organization devoted to helping kids make smarter decisions about sex, announced the two winners for their “What’s The Real Deal” contests on February 6, 2004. The contests, which took place in south Texas and in Miami, encouraged kids ages twelve to twenty-two to submit stories or scripts about the problems they face at school and at home.

Double Vision

marla — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0600

The so-called “Film Brat” generation of the middle to late 1970s has been blamed for, or credited with, many things regarding independent filmmaking—from sparking off a studio-sanctioned Golden Age (Scorsese, Coppola) to ushering in a studio-sanctioned Dark Age (Lucas, Spielberg).

Funder FAQ: National Center for Outreach

vanessa — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0600

Public television stations have always been dedicated to airing programs that help their communities. But after the programs have aired, how can inspired community members actually take up the cause?

Don’t Shoot

marla — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0600

Many might say the past few years have been good ones for independent filmmakers, largely because digital filmmaking has made movie production so much more accessible to budding directors everywhere.

Black Maria

marla — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0600

When you make a film you hope it’s going to be seen by a diverse group of people, and not just by the converted,” says Black Maria Film and Video Festival director John Columbus. “We reach all kinds of people, even rural, ‘off-the-beaten-path’ audiences.”