2010 Maysles Award Winner on PBS
Summer Pasture will make its broadcast premiere on the Emmy winning series Independent Lens on PBS beginning Thursday, May 10, 2012
***Exact air date and time varies by location***
In some markets, multiple showings of the film will be programmed!
Please click here to check your local listings for Summer Pasture:
Starting May 11, 2012 Summer Pasture will also be streaming free at http://video.pbs.org/ for 1 week!
MEDAL QUEST
Message from PBS Production Workshop,
I’m developing an 8 month online project, now going strong, called “MEDAL QUEST: American Athletes and the Paralympic Games,” at pbs.org/medalquest, facebook.com/medalquest, and @medalquest. We’re looking to engage our audiences with “the Olympics that nobody knows,” and every week we add new videos, new athlete blogs, and other new content as we follow the stories of these remarkable athletes that are competing to represent America at the 2012 London Games. We’ll continue through the Paralympics, 29 Aug-9 Sept, and a month or so beyond to see how “our” athletes do and to show the competition at the highest level in sports as varied as wheelchair basketball, swimming, judo, wheelchair rugby (aka “murderball’) and goalball. This is the first time PBS has supported a digital-only project for general audiences (we’ve done digital-only for kids, not adults) and it’s a tremendous challenge to present a story across time and in the online/social media space. Please check us out, watch the videos, “like” us, spread the word (really important!), and let me know what you think. We have another 6 months of production, so new ideas are coming — and we’d welcome yours, too.
Call for Entries: HBO/NYILFF Short Film Competition
Dallas Filmmaker at Tribeca
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The Playroom got to the Tribeca Film Festival. THE PLAYROOM has received glowing reviews from The New York Times, Film.com, FilmCritic, Huffington Post, and more. Reviewers are calling the film an “unnerving look back at the 1970s” with “great performances all around … and a compelling, slow-burning tension throughout.” To read all of the reviews, visit www.theplayroommovie.com/press If you would like to encourage their success. Head over to Indiegogo to show your love and support the film »
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Happy Anniversary to the Classic Pro Camera!
Happy Anniversary to the Classic Pro Camera!
Happy Anniversary Classic Pro! It was 20 years ago this spring that Pro8mm started re-building the amazing Beaulieu 4008 camera. With amazing optics from the interchangeable lens, continuing framing speeds of 2-70fps, the Classic Pro continues to be one of the world’s favorite Super 8 cameras for cinematographers.
Workshop in Dallas
VAD will be a Workshop at noon on Saturday, the 12th of May at KERA for the Austin Filmmakers Production Fund Gran. Since 1996, the Austin Film Society’s Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund has supported Texas filmmakers by giving over $1 million in cash, goods and services to 293 film and video projects. The deadline for the 2012 cycle is June 1st and if you are a filmmaker who has resided in Texas for at least one year, you are eligible to apply for up to $5,000 in funding for your project.
Filmmakers & Interns WANTED for FEATURE film
Be part of the teen filmmaking crews creating "The Stream" a coming-of-age feature film (set in 1982 when feathered do's & light sabers ruled.) Production starts this Summer!
Apply Now!
get more info - OR - go to the application
"The Stream" is a partnership between Fresh Films and Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Every aspect of the feature film will produced by youth including directing some Celebrity talent (talent to be announced soon!)And when the film debuts nationwide in 2013, it will be with a twist -- as every rental, every download and every ticket sold is actually a donation to Boys & Girls Clubs of America— helping kids and teens who need it most.
- Production Dates: You'll be assigned a 1-week production stint sometime in July or August
- Filming Location: Philly/Baltimore (but you can be from anywhere U.S.A., we'll provide the transportation!)
- No experience? No problem!
- Open to teens 13-19 at all experience levels
- Boys & Girls Clubs Members can apply through your club
- Production is thanks to grants from Comed and ITW
P.s. Interns Wanted too -- past Dreaming Tree filmmakers with at least 1-year of college are eligible. Intern Applications due April 30th.
The Revisionaries
In 2009 and 2010, the Texas State Board of Education found itself in the middle of a national controversy when it began to develop its Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for the next ten years. Scott Thurman’s enlightening new documentary, The Revisionaries, gives its audience an inside look at the events that transpired during this process. The film finds itself focused on the story of Don McLeroy, the chair of the board during the debates over how evolution was going to be taught in Texas schools. Thurman is wise not to use his camera as a critical eye on Mr. McLeroy; instead, the film frames him as an earnest man who just wanted to do what he thought was right. The film presents the situation in a series of vignettes that splits up the process of debate to further examine the heavy out-state-influences that apply pressure to the board from all sides; showing how the controversy favors politics over children – which is truly the most frightening aspect of this issue.
