Sunrise, the film is an international social media experiment about Child Trafficking in India.
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Read More »Films in Progress, the twice-yearly rendezvous at the San Sebastian Festival and the Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine in Toulouse, opens registration period for its coming edition.
Read More »Gideon Bachmann and Bernardo Berolucci on the set of 1900Ex pat, Heidelberg based film critic Gideon Bachmann created an archive of interviews with over 500 film directors, including Fellini and Pasolini, called Vox Humana - The Voice Bank. he recently succeeded in digitalizing the tapes which have...
Read More »The Economist Film Project which was introduced to the film community with a series of panels during Sundance has announced the PBS NEWSHOUR slate of documentary films that reflect the types of issues The Economist is known for covering. The Edge of Joy, Wagah, Last Train Home (to be released by Zeitgeist in U.S.) and Good Fortune have all been selected as part of the Project’s initial slate of films. The featured films cover a wide variety of issues ranging from Nigeria’s battle against maternal mortality and the annual mass migration of China’s urban workers back to their villages, to a nightly ritual celebrating the closing of India and P...
Read More »There is actually still government grant money being awarded to worthy projects!
Read More »The cinema's main lobbyist for culture in Washington is The Creative Coalition. As the premiere nonprofit, nonpartisan social and public advocacy organization of the arts and entertainment community since 1989, it is dedicated to educating and mobilizing its members on issues of public importance. Actors Dana Delany and Tim Daly serve as the organization's co-presidents.Today it expressed concern regarding spending cuts proposed by the Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Appropriations. In an outline of proposed funding cuts for the current fiscal year, Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) would cut back funding for t...
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