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Wow, Earth Week was an amazing week for transformational media! There were over 1000 community/home screenings of Do The Math, 350.orgs hot new film showing the...
Earth Week Roundup and Free Films
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If you go to foreign films, if you go to documentaries, if you go to independent films, if you go to good films, you will become a better person because you will unde...
Celebrating Roger Ebert
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With spring around the corner, we are turning over to a new season of important film festivals to attend. Scattered across the nation, are a plethora of festivals to ...
Spring Film Festivals
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Spring Film Festivals
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Spring Film Festivals
With spring around the corner, we are turning over to a new season of important film festivals to attend. Scattered across the nation, are a plethora of festivals to be happening this March and April. Embrace the opportunity in viewing the works of filmmakers worldwide, and get involved in the power of the film community and culture. It is a crucial time to start directing our focus to up-coming premiers of influential documentaries geared to advance our present awareness. It is incredible to see the amount of energy that gets put into these festivals, and the impact they have in…
Who Was Green on the Red Carpet?
Sustainability and eco-consciousness were not lost amidst the glitz and glamor of the 84th Academy Awards. Thanks to her Green Carpet Challenge (of which EMA is the U.S. partner), Livia Firth recruited several Oscar nominees to wear sustainable attire.
Academy Awards 2012 Shortlist
Its that time of year again when the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Documentaries Screening Committee select a shortlist of 15 feature length documentaries and that are eligible for consideration for nomination for an Oscar for Best Documentary. From this list of fifteen films, five will be selected as finalists by voting members of the Academy's Documentaries Branch for the Best Documentary Oscar.
Chris Paine on the Premiere of Revenge of the Electric Car
Chris Paine, Director of Who Killed the Electric Car on the Dylan Ratigan show talking about the premiere of Revenge of the Electric Car on Earth Day at the Tribeca Film Festival.
For more about the film see: www.revengeoftheelectriccar.com/
Green on the Red Carpet
Colin Firth, Oscar winner for Best Actor in the film "The Kings Speech" went eco-friendly on the red carpet at the Academy Awards Sunday night. Firth and his wife Livia wore environmentally friendly clothing in an effort to raise awareness that you can look red carpet fabulous and be eco-conscious. Livia is the founder of a Fair Trade boutique called Eco Age in London. She wore a gown made from old dresses and told Britain’s The Sun,
Ford Foundation Announces $50 Million Film Program
One day before the start of the Sundance Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute, and its gathering of independent filmmakers from around the world, the Ford Foundation today announced a five-year, $50 million initiative to help find and support a new generation of filmmakers whose works address urgent social issues.
Revenge of the Electric Car Launches Trailer
Chris Paine's novel approach to gather traction for Revenge of the Electric Car, the follow-up to his 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car has reached their goal of 10,000 fans on their Facebook page so the trailer is now released and available on their Facebook page. The film is scheduled for launch in Spring 2011.
Economist and PBS NewsHour Launch Documentary Partnership
The Economist Film Project is an initiative by The Economist, in partnership with PBS NewsHour, to showcase independent documentary films from around the world. From Abu Dhabi to Albuquerque, from astronomy to agriculture, the project will showcase films that offer new ideas, perspectives, and insights that not only help make sense of the world, but also take a stand and provoke debate.
Sundance Starts
The annual Sundance Film Festival starts this week. The lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for 2011 have been announced Sundance Institute. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
Intl Documentary Awards Winners
The International Documentary Association Awards were presented Dec 3rd at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles. The ceremony was hosted by Morgan Spurlock."Waste Land", a film about the world’s largest trash dump in Rio de Janeiro, as seen through the eyes of an artist, took top honors. Lucy Walker's film also received the IDA's Pare Lorentz Award. ("Waste Land" is also being considered for an Academy Award in the Feature Documentary category.)
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