Center For
Independent
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Industry News & Opportunities
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LEF MOVING IMAGE FUND NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS
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LEF New England's
Moving Image Fund
is now accepting submissions! The next LEF Moving Image Fund deadline will be
Friday, January 25, 2019 at 11:59pm (midnight)
for Production and Post-Production letters of inquiry.
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Since 1991, BAVC's
MediaMaker Fellowship
has provided in-kind training and support for independent artists at work on social-issue nonfiction film and multimedia projects, with a particular focus on supporting emerging artists and underserved communities. The Fellowship builds an engaged national community of creative media artists from diverse fields, increases their capacity for project completion and lasting impact.
Deadline: January 11th, 2019
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WBCN AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
AT CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL
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Exciting news from Bill Lichtenstein and LCMedia Productions!
WBCN AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
has been invited by the
Cinequest Film Festival
to be screened in March as part of the festival's Documentary Feature Competition. This is the first major film festival acceptance for the film, as producers wait to hear from others.
The Cinequest Film Festival, now in its 29th year, annually hosts 130 films from over 50 countries with over 100,000 attendees in San Jose. It was recently voted "Best Film Festival" by USA Today readers.
In Cinequest's invitation letter, the festival thanked Bill for the film and for "introducing [them] to such an incredible story."
Meanwhile, WBCN-FM announcers from the station's early days, including (see photo from left to right) Joe Rogers, Charles Laquidara, Ron Della Chiesa, Tommy Hadges, Bob Slavin, Maxanne Sartori, Sam Kopper, and Al Perry, with NPR's Robin Young, gathered for a Boston preview screening of
WBCN and The American Revolution
for those in the documentary feature and crew at the Regent Theatre, as the film is being finished (sound mix and color correction) and producers are waiting for news from festivals. (Present but not included in photo, Jim Parry, Dinah Vaprin, and Charles "Master Blaster" Daniels.)
Stay tuned for updates about premiere and where you can see the documentary, coming soon to a screen near you.
And there is still time to make a tax-deductible donation, to support the remaining work on the film (studio color correction and sound mix), and to have your name included in the closing credits. Click
here
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DAWNLAND
NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE
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MAINE PUBLIC TELEVISION BROADCAST
Dawnland
will air statewide on Maine Public Television on
Thursday January 10th at 10pm and Saturday January 12th at 11am
. Thanks to Maine Public for sharing
Dawnland
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PATERNAL RITES
IN CHICAGO
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Jules Rosskam's essay film
PATERNAL RITES
kicks-off 2019 with two screenings at Chicago's
Gene Siskel Film Center
annual documentary showcase "Stranger Than Fiction: Documentary Premieres." The filmmaker will be in person on
Saturday, January 19 at 5:30 pm & Monday, January 21 at 8:00 pm
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FROM BAGHDAD TO THE BAY
IS READY FOR DISTRIBUTION
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Winner of four awards including Best Documentary Feature at Cinequest,
FROM BAGHDAD TO THE BAY
is ready for distribution! While completing the necessary steps to prepare the film for release on platforms such as iTunes and Amazon, the team is creating a strategic community screenings campaign that will bring this film to audiences across the country. Some screenings will engage communities that rarely intersect like veteran and immigrant communities. Read more about it on their
Go Fund Me campaign page
and help them make this possible by making a tax-deductible contribution today!
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A LONG WAY FROM HOME
TO BE RELEASED SOON
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A Long Way From Home
tells the story of baseball's desegregation. Read more
here
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A REVOLUTIONARY TRIO: THE STORIES BEHIND THEIR FACES
IS AVAILABLE FOR FREE STREAMING
A REVOLUTIONARY TRIO: THE STORIES BEHIND THEIR FACES
is available for free streaming online now. The films
feature Daguerreotypes of 3 men and women who lived during the Revolutionary War and were still alive during the early days of photography. All three are linked below:
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TROUBLED WATER
RAISING FUNDS FOR POST-PRODUCTION
Work on
TROUBLED WATER
began eight years ago
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The film tells the story of Salvadoran farmer Francisco Piñeda, who exposed a Canadian / U.S. multinational corporation’s destructive gold mining operations in his country.
Recently, the crew has been hard at work filming updates in Honduras and Peru, shooting for two weeks in each location. They are now in development mode, working to raise $40,000 to begin post-production on the film with the goal of completing a rough assembly and 20-minute sample within the next few months. The Silicon Valley Foundation has kicked off this new funding round with a $7,000 donation!.To make your own contribution, visit the film's page on the CID site
here
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Lastly, on November 29th, the team filmed the conclusion of Berta Caceres' murder trial in which 7 of the 8 men accused were convicted. The verdicts will be announced in January.
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CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR
THE FIFTH ANNUAL IRISH AMERICAN MOVIE HOOLEY
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The Fifth Annual Irish American Movie Hooley
will be returning Sept. 27, 28, and 29th at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago. If your film is chosen you will be flown to Chicago and put up for the weekend at the luxurious Chicago Hilton on Michigan Avenue.
Call for Entries begins on January 16th
. Read more
here
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A SPARK OF NERVE
BEING OFFERED FREE TO PUBLIC TELEVISION
A message from Linda and Tim Schaller:
A SPARK OF NERVE
documentary is now being offered free to all Public Television Stations starting Jan. 2019 through Executive Programming Services. So far there are 62 stations that have said “yes” to broadcasting the film. The population range covers 72% of TV households. Thank you to CID for acting as our fiscal sponsor and for helping to make this all possible!
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MY HALF OF THE ROAD
IN PRODUCTION
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In October of 2018, Boyd Productions released the documentary
3 Seconds Behind the Wheel
through American Public Television in the US and PBS International worldwide.
3 Seconds Behind the Wheel
follows the lives of eight drivers over 6 months using in-car cameras and tracking technology to monitor the often-hidden behavior of distracted drivers. While these drivers' habits will shock you, this is a very honest and intimate look at human nature. MIT, Google and the University of Connecticut were involved in the project. For more info go to
https://3seconds.org/
In the Spring of 2019, Boyd Productions continues the story in part 2, titled
MY HALF OF THE ROAD
(working title). This documentary focuses on how distracted driving impacts people outside of the car. Using customized tracking technology
My Half of the Road
takes a POV approach to documenting the moment by moment experiences of cyclists on our roads today (think NYC bike messenger, commuter cyclist and weekend road warrior).
Boyd Productions has also begun production of a new historical documentary focused on the early history of Las Vegas. This feature length film must be completed in 6 months! Due date is the end of May 2019.
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CID Sponsored Film Of The Month
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PHOENIX: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ALICE HERZ
Directed By Betsy Kalin
On March 16, 1965, Alice Herz, an 82-year-old German Jewish immigrant, writer, and lifelong peace activist set herself on fire on a street corner in Detroit to protest “the arms race all over the world.” Alice was the first U.S.
activist
to self-immolate in objection to the
Vietnam War
, yet is virtually unknown.
Phoenix
sheds light on her life and death while questioning why she has been erased from history as both an intellectual leader of the twentieth century and as a courageous woman affecting social change. Helga Herz, Alice’s daughter, continued her family’s legacy by also devoting her life to activism. Through exploring Alice’s and Helga’s lives,
Phoenix
shows their relevance to contemporary social justice and peacebuilding movements.
Read more and contribute to the film
here.
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Featured Resource Of The Month
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"5 Tips on Documentary Grant Writing From the Pros"
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Funding specialist Tracie Holder, Jenni Wolfson, Iyabo Boyd (of Brown Girls Doc Mafia), and moderator Michael Gibbons of Creative Capital at
DOC NYC 2018
give their insights on the topic of grant writing.
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We are grateful for the generous support of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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Center For Independent Documentary | 1-339-364-1278 | www.documentaries.org
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