With an African-American man as President of the United States, many Americans would say that the country has come a long way. But conversations about race should, and must, continue. So say Eric Paul Fournier and Anna Kauffman, who are putting the finishing touches on a documentary film that follows Barack Obama’s presidential campaign from its inception through Inauguration Day.
This Featured Member profile focuses on director Jason Glaser’s film series “The Affected”, an exploration of the historical and present-day nightmare that is global agribusiness. The first film of the series, Banana Land: Blood, Bullets and Poison, exposes some of the devastating practices that have become business-as-usual in the production of the most consumed fruit in the United States.
Scott Kirschenbaum has taught improv to and performed stand-up comedy for nursing home residents across the country. As writer, director and producer of the documentary film “Three Bagel Sunday”, he followed the life of an elderly woman with Alhzeimer’s living in a nursing care facility.
To Them That’s Gone documents a small group of civilians on their Run for the Fallen, a cross-country journey in remembrance of the American servicemen and women killed in Iraq. Commenting on the filming of the group’s run from Fort Irwin, California, to Virginia’s Arlington National Cemetery, producer/director Rolando Garcia says, “…how much more epic do you get than crossing the entire country on foot? Unbelievable. You can’t even script that.”
Cinereach is now accepting letters of inquiry for its Summer 2009 grant cycle. The deadline to submit a letter of inquiry is June 1st.
Who Cinereach funds:
Support will be provided to artful narrative and documentary films that depict underrepresented perspectives, cross international boundaries and start meaningful conversations. Film projects that are consistent with Cinereach’s ethos favor [...]
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts is offering an intensive new program about the legal and business issues that affect individual artists and individuals within arts cultural institutions who make and work in film, music and interactive media. Fractured Atlas members can receive a discount to this event by contacting our staff for a discount code.
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With more than 20 years of experience and two Emmy Awards, producer Andrea Melville has created myriad films and television programs: from shorter magazine-style segments, to public affairs programming, hour-long documentaries and a 30-part series. In 2008, she completed An Island Kingdom, a 90-minute documentary highlighting the 400-year history of the Isles of Shoals off the New Hampshire coast.
A documentary film about the people who pick through the trash for survival at the Tijuana garbage dump, The Tijuana Project focuses on the lives of six children who live next to this immense mountain of trash. In this week’s member profile, director, co-producer and independent filmmaker John Sheedy talks about the film, currently in post-production editing.
Both a filmmaker and an environmental activist, Josh Tickell is the director of FUEL, a 2008 Sundance Audience Award-winning documentary that articulates our imperative need for environmentally responsible energy sources as alternatives to petrochemical ones, and investigates how we can “repower America”.
This is from our good friends over at the Tribeca Film Institute, one of our Open Arts Network partners….
Submissions are now open for the 2009 Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund which will offer grants ranging from $10,000 - $25,000 totaling $100,000. Eligible films include feature-length documentaries that are in production or post-production. Films should examine or [...]
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