Working with an international production team, Cary McClelland gives us an inside glimpse of Pakistan. His film “Without Shepherds” reveals the tensions and promise within the country through interviews with six Pakistanis from different backgrounds. Cary draws on previous experience from theater, screenwriting, and peacebuilding to create a singular film about a country at a [...]
Writer and producer Cynthia Younker has been storytelling all of her life. An accomplished series producer and documentary filmmaker, Cynthia’s latest project looks at shifting the focus on cancer from cure to prevention. This summer, she’s following three health-inspired motorcycle riders and a naturopathic doctor across North America as they promote their vision and cause. [...]
The Bully Project, a recently sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, has been acquired by The Weinstein Company. The Bully Project is a feature length documentary film about the national bullying problem in schools across the U.S. The film recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The Bully Project ran a successful IndieGoGo campaign through Fractured [...]
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.
Sessions [...]
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.
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