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Kim Longinotto's Master Class,
Outreach as a Central Element in Documentary Production,
Fahrenheit, Fries, Fox, & Fairness: The New Political Documentary,
Anand Patwardhan and "The Messengers of Bad News",
Anne Lewis and "Creative Vision",
Gordon Quinn and "The New Americans" - An Interview,
Judith Helfand and "Making Change, Making Movies",
Melissa Young and 'Not For Sale',
John de Graaf and "Affluenza",
Kirsten Johnson and "Innocent Until Proven Guilty",
Patricio Guzmán and "El Caso Pinochet",
Kristi Jacobson and "American Standoff",
Jeremy Spear and "Fastpitch",
Vincent and Shelley Dunn Fremont and "Pie in the Sky",
Katherine Dieckmann and "A Good Baby",
Tod Lending and "Legacy",
Sharon Greytak and "Losing It",
Michael Dominic and "Sunshine Hotel",
Debra Zimmerman and Women Make Movies,
Screening and Panel: Banking on Disaster,
Adrian Cowell,
Finding the Story: From the Amazon to Burma and Back,
Lillian Jiménez on Antonia Pantoja,
Fair Use, Free Speech and Contract Clearance,
Fair Use, Licensing, and Intellectual Property Rights,
Fair Use at Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference,
WIFV Wednesday One: Getting the Right Rights,
Taking the Law Into Your Own Hands,
Buyer, Be Fair: The Promise Of Product Certification,
How to Film Sharks and Bears and Live to Tell About It,
Democracy on Deadline with filmmaker Cal Skaggs,
Clearance, Copyright and Fair Use for Filmmakers with Michael C. Donaldson,
Making Your Documentary Matter,
Film Screening: Race is the Place,
Footage from the 'Fair Use and Free Speech' Launch,
To Live is Better than to Die,
Ronit Avni, Founder and Director of Just Vision,
Examples of Successful Fair Use in Documentary Film,
Category 1: Commenting Critically on Media,
Outfoxed,
Paul Fusco,
George Stoney,
Panel: Copyright, the Constitution, and the Crisis in Historical Documentary Film,
Visiting Filmmaker: Orlando Bagwell,
WAR TAKES with Patricia Castaño,
Katy Chevigny,
Patricio Guzmán,
Digital Futures: A Need-to-Know Policy Guide for Independent Filmmakers,
"Docu makers rallying for fair use of fair use",
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF),
Center for Arts and Culture: Cultural Commons,
Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers: Resources for Indies,
ITVS: Producer Resources,
Cultural Policy & the Arts,
New York Foundation for the Arts,
Women Make Movies: Production Assistance Program,
National Endowment for the Humanities,
Creative Capital,
Film Arts Foundation Grants,
IDFA Forum,
Sundance Documentary Fund,
Morrie Warchawski's Fundraising Bibliography,
New Day Films,
Without A Box,
Independent Feature Project,
Freespeech.org,
Docurama,
Working Films,
National Video Resources,
Outreach Extensions,
Using Video to Create Social Change,
DigitalDocumentary.org,
What Keeps Social Documentaries from Audiences--and How to Fix It,
In the Battle for Reality: Social Documentaries in the U.S.,
DocuSeek,
Sundance Documentary Fund,
Category 2: Sampling popular culture to portray societal conditions,
Killing Us Softly,
Behind the Screens,
Category 3: Incorporating incidental sounds and images in documentary footage,
Category 4: Employing archival material in historical or biographical sequences,
Why America Hates the Press,
Refrigerator Mothers,
Women's Voices: The Gender Gap,
The Persuaders,
Merchants of Cool,
Game Over,
Cracking the Code of Life,
Money for Nothing,
Who Owns the Past?,
The New Americans,
5 Girls,
Karl Rove - The Architect,
Giuliani Time,
Citizen King,
Jack Walsh,
Michael Donaldson,
Sandra Ruch,
Tamara Gould,
Fair Use at Upcoming Conferences,
Fair Use at Nashville Film Festival,
Making Your Documentary Matter 2006,
Fair Use Featured at CINE Awards,
Public Media and the Smithsonian Controversy,
Docurama,
Maximizing Distribution,
Impact of Uprising of '34: A Coalition Model of Production and Distribution,
The Current State of the International Marketplace for Documentary Films,
Collaborative strategies for social action filmmakers,
Why Fund Media,
Making Your Documentary Matter 2005,
Media and Metanoia: Documentary "Impact" Through the Lens of Conversion,
“Documentaries: Making an Impact,” at the 25th IFP Market in New York City,
The Television Race Initiative: Sparking Dialogue That Can Lead to Action,
Is Social Change Media a Delusion? California Newsreel at 30 and 2000,
The Drum Beat,
From the Broadcaster's Corner: A Success Story in Coalition Outreach,
Visiting Filmmakers: Patrice O'Neill and Pamela Calvert,
Paco de Onis and Peter Kinoy,
Gordon Quinn,
Jos de Putter: The Damned and the Sacred,
Case Study: Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo,
Breaking New Ground: A Framework for Measuring the Social Impact of Canadian Documentaries,
The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's,
Blue Vinyl and the My House is Your House Consumer Organizing Campaign, 2002-2003,
Impact of Uprising of '34: A Coalition Model of Production and Distribution,
Using Grassroots Documentary Films for Political Change,
Report from the Road: Two Towns of Jasper,
Enhancing Education: A Producer's Guide,
Outreach Extensions: National Legacy Outreach Campaign Evaluation,
Well-Founded Fear: A Case Study,
The Television Race Initiative: Sparking Dialogue That Can Lead to Action,
Positive: Life with HIV: When a Film Doesn't Receive a National PBS Broadcast,
Case Study: Changing the World, One Documentary at a Time,
Center Director Submits Testimony on Smithsonian/Showtime Controversy,
Testimony on the Smithsonian Controversy to the House Committee on House Administration 5.25.06,
Fair Use and Free Speech,
Producing Films With Nonprofit Organisations,
Fear, Truth, and the Documentary,
Tia Lessin,
AIDS in Focus: Telling the Stories Behind the Headlines,
Checkpoint & Best of INPUT 2004,
Untold Stories: Creative Consequences of the Rights Clearance Culture,
With God On Our Side: George Bush and the Religious Right,
Photographer Chien-Chi Chang,
In the Light of Reverence,
Visiting Filmmakers: Patrice O'Neill and Pamela Calvert,
Valentina's Nightmare and Rwanda: The Weapon,
Visiting Filmmaker: Ronit Avni,
Social Action Media Showcase,
Camera as Catalyst: Leonard Freed,
Human Rights Film Series,
Special event: Magnum Photographer Bruce Davidson,
Women Make Movies Turns 30,
Labor Filmmakers’ Roundtable: Making Movies About Real Life,
Independent Views of September 11,
Power of Media as a Social Tool,
Filmmakers Forum on Satyajit Ray,
Powerful Social Action Films and Strategies,
Real Screen Roundtable,
“Trembling before G-d”,
Sundance hosts open house for the Center,
SILVERDOCS 2006,
Film Screening: Muxes: Autenticas, Intrepidas y Buscadoras del Peligro,
Visiting Photographer: Lou Dematteis,
Dallas Video Festival: Copyright & Fair Use Workshop,
9th United Nations Association Film Festival,
2006 DC Labor Film Fest Screening: The Take,
Watch our latest videos on the latest in web-based and community outreach media,
Film Screening: The Best of The Santa Barbara Ocean Film Festival 2006,
Let us know what you thought about Making Your Documentary Matter 2007!,
Mimi Pickering Participatory Media Speech,
Refrigerator Mothers,
Freeing the Data in London,
Public Media Strategies in Entertainment Education- Doe Mayer Podcast,
Public Media Strategies in Entertainment Education- Doe Mayer Podcast,
AU’s Center for Social Media to Screen Film During DC Labor Film Fest,
Listen to the Made in LA discussion podcast,
The View from the Top: P.O.V. Leaders on the Struggle to Create Truly Public Media,
George Stoney Visits American Univeristy,
George Stoney Visits American University,
"Plight Entertainment": Engaging Audiences With Difficult Stories,
MYMM Afternoon Panel: Crossing Cultural Boundaries
Outreach as a Central Element in Documentary Production,
Fahrenheit, Fries, Fox, & Fairness: The New Political Documentary,
Anand Patwardhan and "The Messengers of Bad News",
Anne Lewis and "Creative Vision",
Gordon Quinn and "The New Americans" - An Interview,
Judith Helfand and "Making Change, Making Movies",
Melissa Young and 'Not For Sale',
John de Graaf and "Affluenza",
Kirsten Johnson and "Innocent Until Proven Guilty",
Patricio Guzmán and "El Caso Pinochet",
Kristi Jacobson and "American Standoff",
Jeremy Spear and "Fastpitch",
Vincent and Shelley Dunn Fremont and "Pie in the Sky",
Katherine Dieckmann and "A Good Baby",
Tod Lending and "Legacy",
Sharon Greytak and "Losing It",
Michael Dominic and "Sunshine Hotel",
Debra Zimmerman and Women Make Movies,
Screening and Panel: Banking on Disaster,
Adrian Cowell,
Finding the Story: From the Amazon to Burma and Back,
Lillian Jiménez on Antonia Pantoja,
Fair Use, Free Speech and Contract Clearance,
Fair Use, Licensing, and Intellectual Property Rights,
Fair Use at Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference,
WIFV Wednesday One: Getting the Right Rights,
Taking the Law Into Your Own Hands,
Buyer, Be Fair: The Promise Of Product Certification,
How to Film Sharks and Bears and Live to Tell About It,
Democracy on Deadline with filmmaker Cal Skaggs,
Clearance, Copyright and Fair Use for Filmmakers with Michael C. Donaldson,
Making Your Documentary Matter,
Film Screening: Race is the Place,
Footage from the 'Fair Use and Free Speech' Launch,
To Live is Better than to Die,
Ronit Avni, Founder and Director of Just Vision,
Examples of Successful Fair Use in Documentary Film,
Category 1: Commenting Critically on Media,
Outfoxed,
Paul Fusco,
George Stoney,
Panel: Copyright, the Constitution, and the Crisis in Historical Documentary Film,
Visiting Filmmaker: Orlando Bagwell,
WAR TAKES with Patricia Castaño,
Katy Chevigny,
Patricio Guzmán,
Digital Futures: A Need-to-Know Policy Guide for Independent Filmmakers,
"Docu makers rallying for fair use of fair use",
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF),
Center for Arts and Culture: Cultural Commons,
Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers: Resources for Indies,
ITVS: Producer Resources,
Cultural Policy & the Arts,
New York Foundation for the Arts,
Women Make Movies: Production Assistance Program,
National Endowment for the Humanities,
Creative Capital,
Film Arts Foundation Grants,
IDFA Forum,
Sundance Documentary Fund,
Morrie Warchawski's Fundraising Bibliography,
New Day Films,
Without A Box,
Independent Feature Project,
Freespeech.org,
Docurama,
Working Films,
National Video Resources,
Outreach Extensions,
Using Video to Create Social Change,
DigitalDocumentary.org,
What Keeps Social Documentaries from Audiences--and How to Fix It,
In the Battle for Reality: Social Documentaries in the U.S.,
DocuSeek,
Sundance Documentary Fund,
Category 2: Sampling popular culture to portray societal conditions,
Killing Us Softly,
Behind the Screens,
Category 3: Incorporating incidental sounds and images in documentary footage,
Category 4: Employing archival material in historical or biographical sequences,
Why America Hates the Press,
Refrigerator Mothers,
Women's Voices: The Gender Gap,
The Persuaders,
Merchants of Cool,
Game Over,
Cracking the Code of Life,
Money for Nothing,
Who Owns the Past?,
The New Americans,
5 Girls,
Karl Rove - The Architect,
Giuliani Time,
Citizen King,
Jack Walsh,
Michael Donaldson,
Sandra Ruch,
Tamara Gould,
Fair Use at Upcoming Conferences,
Fair Use at Nashville Film Festival,
Making Your Documentary Matter 2006,
Fair Use Featured at CINE Awards,
Public Media and the Smithsonian Controversy,
Docurama,
Maximizing Distribution,
Impact of Uprising of '34: A Coalition Model of Production and Distribution,
The Current State of the International Marketplace for Documentary Films,
Collaborative strategies for social action filmmakers,
Why Fund Media,
Making Your Documentary Matter 2005,
Media and Metanoia: Documentary "Impact" Through the Lens of Conversion,
“Documentaries: Making an Impact,” at the 25th IFP Market in New York City,
The Television Race Initiative: Sparking Dialogue That Can Lead to Action,
Is Social Change Media a Delusion? California Newsreel at 30 and 2000,
The Drum Beat,
From the Broadcaster's Corner: A Success Story in Coalition Outreach,
Visiting Filmmakers: Patrice O'Neill and Pamela Calvert,
Paco de Onis and Peter Kinoy,
Gordon Quinn,
Jos de Putter: The Damned and the Sacred,
Case Study: Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo,
Breaking New Ground: A Framework for Measuring the Social Impact of Canadian Documentaries,
The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's,
Blue Vinyl and the My House is Your House Consumer Organizing Campaign, 2002-2003,
Impact of Uprising of '34: A Coalition Model of Production and Distribution,
Using Grassroots Documentary Films for Political Change,
Report from the Road: Two Towns of Jasper,
Enhancing Education: A Producer's Guide,
Outreach Extensions: National Legacy Outreach Campaign Evaluation,
Well-Founded Fear: A Case Study,
The Television Race Initiative: Sparking Dialogue That Can Lead to Action,
Positive: Life with HIV: When a Film Doesn't Receive a National PBS Broadcast,
Case Study: Changing the World, One Documentary at a Time,
Center Director Submits Testimony on Smithsonian/Showtime Controversy,
Testimony on the Smithsonian Controversy to the House Committee on House Administration 5.25.06,
Fair Use and Free Speech,
Producing Films With Nonprofit Organisations,
Fear, Truth, and the Documentary,
Tia Lessin,
AIDS in Focus: Telling the Stories Behind the Headlines,
Checkpoint & Best of INPUT 2004,
Untold Stories: Creative Consequences of the Rights Clearance Culture,
With God On Our Side: George Bush and the Religious Right,
Photographer Chien-Chi Chang,
In the Light of Reverence,
Visiting Filmmakers: Patrice O'Neill and Pamela Calvert,
Valentina's Nightmare and Rwanda: The Weapon,
Visiting Filmmaker: Ronit Avni,
Social Action Media Showcase,
Camera as Catalyst: Leonard Freed,
Human Rights Film Series,
Special event: Magnum Photographer Bruce Davidson,
Women Make Movies Turns 30,
Labor Filmmakers’ Roundtable: Making Movies About Real Life,
Independent Views of September 11,
Power of Media as a Social Tool,
Filmmakers Forum on Satyajit Ray,
Powerful Social Action Films and Strategies,
Real Screen Roundtable,
“Trembling before G-d”,
Sundance hosts open house for the Center,
SILVERDOCS 2006,
Film Screening: Muxes: Autenticas, Intrepidas y Buscadoras del Peligro,
Visiting Photographer: Lou Dematteis,
Dallas Video Festival: Copyright & Fair Use Workshop,
9th United Nations Association Film Festival,
2006 DC Labor Film Fest Screening: The Take,
Watch our latest videos on the latest in web-based and community outreach media,
Film Screening: The Best of The Santa Barbara Ocean Film Festival 2006,
Let us know what you thought about Making Your Documentary Matter 2007!,
Mimi Pickering Participatory Media Speech,
Refrigerator Mothers,
Freeing the Data in London,
Public Media Strategies in Entertainment Education- Doe Mayer Podcast,
Public Media Strategies in Entertainment Education- Doe Mayer Podcast,
AU’s Center for Social Media to Screen Film During DC Labor Film Fest,
Listen to the Made in LA discussion podcast,
The View from the Top: P.O.V. Leaders on the Struggle to Create Truly Public Media,
George Stoney Visits American Univeristy,
George Stoney Visits American University,
"Plight Entertainment": Engaging Audiences With Difficult Stories,
MYMM Afternoon Panel: Crossing Cultural Boundaries