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 [...]
Documentary photographers Morrigan McCarthy and Alan Winslow are cycling around the United States, aiming to raise awareness about what everyday Americans are doing to help the environment. Entitled “Project Tandem”, their journey will culminate in late 2009 with a multimedia piece for the web, as well as a traveling exhibition of photographs and audio interviews.
I don’t have the stats to prove it, but I’d guess that a surprisingly high percentage (maybe even a majority) of the films produced in the US in a given year are independent documentaries. Certainly that’s true of the 1100+ independent filmmakers in the Fractured Atlas membership, many of whom participate in our fiscal sponsorship [...]
“I see technology as a tool that can be integrated seamlessly with the human mind,” says Fractured Atlas member Treva Wurmfeld, a filmmaker, sculptor, and performance artist who was featured at the 2006 benefit. Her work explores the relationship between biology and technology and how human beings are adapting to a world in the [...]
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