October 2018 Newsletter
Center For
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Documentary
Industry News & Opportunities
UPCOMING WEBINAR: ‘PRODUCTION INSURANCE 101’
We are excited to announce our upcoming free webinar, ‘Production Insurance 101' with Winnie Wong, Senior Vice President at Momentous Insurance Brokerage Inc. Winnie has been an entertainment insurance broker since 1985 and specializes in independent features, television, reality, documentary and commercial films.

Winnie will provide an overview of production insurance for documentarians including why you might need production insurance, what the different types of production insurance are, what is needed to obtain a quotation, types of insurance claims and a production example.

The webinar will take place on Thursday, November 15th at 1pm ET. Register here .
NEW FILM FUND FROM DOC SOCIETY
Doc Society has announced their brand new film fund - The New Perspectives Seed Fund. Feature length documentaries, with a focus on social justice, from all over the world are encouraged to apply. Grantees will benefit not just from a grant award, but the chance to be mentored by the Doc Society film team.

For all the information and application form, visit the site here.
THE MILLER/PACKAN FILM FUND 2019 WINTER OPEN CALL
The Miller/Packan Film Fund 2019 Winter Open Call is now open. Financed through the Rogovy Foundation, the fund supports documentaries in advanced development (up to $15K), production and post-production (up to $25K) in subjects of environment, education and civics. Applications are due by November 15th.

Learn more here.
NEW REPORT FROM CENTER FOR MEDIA & SOCIAL IMPACT: "THE STATE OF THE DOCUMENTARY FIELD"
Center For Media & Social Impact (CMSI) State of The Documentary Field Study is the first research to reveal trends and experiences of contemporary documentary professionals based primarily in the US. Crafted by CMSI with feedback from the International Documentary Association (IDA), the study was informed by insights and questions derived from documentary professionals.

Read the full study here.
CID Film News & Updates
ERNIE & JOE AWARDED AN IDA ENTERPRISE PRODUCTION FUND GRANT
Directed by Jenifer McShane, ERNIE & JOE, has been awarded an International Documentary Association Enterprise Production Fund grant! A huge congratulations to Jenifer and all of the awardees. You can read the full list here.

Learn more about Ernie & Joe here.
HOW I LIVE AT THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY
A clip of the soon to be released film by Persistent Productions, HOW I LIVE, will play at the United Nations General Assembly this week as part of the United Nations General Assembly Official Side Event "Ensuring A Right To Cure: Childhood Cancer Care and Global Survival Disparities". One of the patients filmed, Gabo who is 14 years old from San Salvador El Salvador, will be in attendance. He is now in remission for leukemia.

Learn more about the film here.

(Photograph by Scott A. Woodward)
FROM BAGHDAD TO THE BAY IN CALIFORNIA
Awarded 'Best Documentary' at Cinequest, 'Best Film: Programmer's Award for Excellence' at OUTshine, and 'Best First Time Feature Filmmaker Award' at the GI Film Festival San Diego, FROM BAGHDAD TO THE BAY screens seven times in California over the next month! Don't miss this incredible true story about an accused double agent and his epic journey to be true to himself against all odds.

UPCOMING SCREENINGS:
10/14, 2:15pm: Mill Valley Film Festival
10/17, 6:15pm: Arab Film Festival, SF
11/2, 4pm: Ojai Film Festival
11/10, 10am: Ojai Film Festival
DAWNLAND OCTOBER SCREENINGS AND BROADCAST PREMIERE
A message from filmmakers Adam Mazo and Ben Pender-Cudlip:

We are announcing new October screening dates for DAWNLAND across the country. We are so grateful for these opportunities to engage with communities. For screening details and updates, please see our website. Please save the date for the broadcast premiere of Dawnland on November 10th at 10pm (EST) on Independent Lens on PBS.
THE PEACEMAKER OCTOBER SCREENINGS IN NEW ENGLAND
THE PEACEMAKER will be screening all over New England this month, with Q&As at every show! Don't miss the chance to see this award-winning film.

UPCOMING SCREENINGS:
10/2, 7pm: Scituate, MA
10/9, 7pm: Springfield, MA
10/28, 2pm: Hartford, CT
10/28, 7pm: Newburyport, MA
BLINDSIDED AT QFLIX FESTIVAL

Lisa Olivieri's, BLINDSIDED, will be playing at qFLIX (New England's LGBT Festival) on Saturday, October 13th at 1:15pm at the Historic Hanover Theater. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the perfect time for the film to screen.

In March, Blindsided received the Jury Award for Best Documentary from qFLIX/Philadelphia. Commenting on the jury selection, the jurors stated, "Impressive on various levels, this important and effective yet humbly crafted film inspires deeply and has the ability to motivate a wide audience to create change."

You can follow the film on Facebook here.
MINISTER OF LONELINESS PRODUCTION UPDATES

Joe Applebaum and Stu Maddux have begun shooting their film, MINISTER OF LONELINESS. They had a fantastic interview with Colin McEnroe of Connecticut Public Radio, who has done an amazing amount of research on the subject and has dedicated entire programs to loneliness. Next week, Joe and Stu will be going to the Out & Equal Conference in Seattle with filmmaker John Scagliotti. They will be holding meetings for Minister Of Loneliness and also screening their previous films, Reel In The Closet and Gen Silent.

Then, in early November, they are off to the UK! With interviews and looking at programs in place to combat loneliness and isolation, a great portion of the film will be shot in England and Scotland.

Learn more about Minister Of Loneliness here.
PATERNAL RITES UPCOMING SCREENINGS

October is a busy month for Jules Rosskam's essay film, PATERNAL RITES. It screens several times at the Kansai Queer Festival in Japan, it's the closing film at Gender Reel in St. Paul, MN, and it will have its Florida premiere as documentary centerpiece at Tampa Bay's International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (TGILFF), with Jules scheduled to attend. In November, Jules will be giving the keynote address at PLURALITIES, a national gathering in San Francisco presented by the DOC FILM INSTITUTE at SF State that brings together thought leaders and innovators who are pushing the field forward for nonfiction forms in the 21st century. Paternal Rites will have its San Francisco premiere as part of that week's program.

The Paternal Rites team is actively seeking bookings. Screenings for professionals and students in the fields of psychology, gender, media and cultural studies strongly encouraged. Please visit the Paternal Rites booking page for more details.
CID Sponsored Film Of The Month
MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER
Directed By Marisa Fox

MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER is a documentary feature that traces a daughter's epic search for her late mother's hidden Holocaust past. Growing up in New York, journalist Marisa Fox never knew her mother as Tamar Fromer, a fiery redhead who often boasted of her years in the Israeli underground and army. But whenever Fox pressed her about her childhood, Tamar avoided the topic, claiming she fled her native Poland after the Nazi's invaded, unlike her mother and most of her family who were murdered in Auschwitz. Some twenty years after Tamar's death, Fox discovers her mother's writing under a different name in a diary at Yad Vashem, also penned by sixty Jewish girls, trafficked as Nazi slaves to a women's camp. Fox sets out on a global search to uncover her mother's secret identity and past, unearthing a buried chapter of Holocaust history, giving voice to women largely omitted from Shoah narratives, and breaking a two-generation silence.

Shot on location throughout the United States, Australia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Israel and Canada, My Underground Mother is a gripping, first-person documentary about post-Holocaust identity lost and found, of a daughter hungering for connection with a mother, a case of "not me" meets #MeToo seventy-four years after liberation, an empowering women's story of trauma, survival and reinvention.

Learn more and contribute to the film here.
Featured Resource Of The Month
"A Massive List of Fall 2018 Grants All Filmmakers Should Know About"
Looking for funding this fall? Check out this lengthy list of grant opportunities put together by No Film School.

Find the list here .
We are grateful for the generous support of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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