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January
Newsletter
Producer
workshop on outreach strategies in February!
Want
to find out how to use outreach to make your doc effective—or
even how to make outreach part of your funding strategy? The Center
is offering a workshop designed to help producers with strategic
design for their docs. Learn in this one-day workshop from some
of the most respected professionals in outreach and community engagement,
and find out how their strategies helped great documentaries get
made, and make a difference in the world.
What:
Making Your Documentary Matter: Outreach Strategies that
Work
When:
February 7, 2005 from 1-8:00 p.m.
Where:
American University, Washington DC
Panelists
include: Joy Moore of the Annie E. Casey Foundation,
Judith Ravitz of Outreach Extensions, Cheryl Head
of Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Cara Mertes
of P.O.V and many more! $50 registration fee includes all panels,
networking reception and premiere screening of a new Tod
Lending film, Omar and Pete. Space is filling
up, register now!
Find
out more on the web: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/outreachworkshop.htm
Workshop
funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
New
Free DVD on Clearance and Copyright
Accompanying
the November launch of the report, “Untold Stories,”
is a short video by Brigid Maher, “Stories
Untold.” This crisp introduction to the issues combines
clips of endangered or altered films, interviews with filmmakers,
and animation illustrating the kinds of problems filmmakers have
in clearing rights for documentaries. All quoted material in the
film was used by invoking fair use. The 8-minute video is designed
both for teaching and for discussions. “This is a terrific
tool,” said filmmaker Peter Wintonick. “I want every
doc filmmaker to see it. We need to be able to tell more people
why this matters to them, and this shows it to them.”
The
video can be viewed on the Center website at: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/rock/index.htm
Or
is available on DVD for free by emailing socialmedia@american.edu.
Limited copies, though!
Spring
Events Line-up!
The Center has another full semester of events! From visiting filmmakers
and photographers to panel discussions and screenings, the Center
highlights some of the best work in socially engaged media. Mark
your calendar now:
January
19
Children Will Listen by Charlene Gilbert
in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Q&A with Gilbert
following the screening!
February 2
Photographer Eli Reed discusses his career in
social documentary and commercial photography, including Black
in America in honor of Black History Month
February 7
Workshop: Making Your Documentary Matter (Pre-registration
required) includes a premiere screening of Tod Lending's new film
Omar and Pete. Q&A with Lending!
March 15-19
Environmental Film Festival with a special evening
with world-renowned wildlife filmmaker Christopher Palmer;
screenings including This Land is Your Land
by Lori Cheatle & Daisy Wright and a special program by United
Nations Association Film Festival presented by festival
founder and director Jasmina Bojic
March
30
Visiting Filmmaker: Tia Lessin on "Making
Controversial Documentaries"-Lessin shares clips from her
work on Behind the Labels, Bowling
for Columbine and Shadows of Hate
April 10
The World Is Watching and The
World Stopped Watching are presented as part of
the American University School of Communication's Reel Journalism
Festival. Discussion with filmmakers Peter Raymont,
Harold Crooks and photojournalist Bill
Gentile
See
the complete events schedule and program descriptions at:
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/events.html
Center Goes to Sundance!
Center director Pat Aufderheide will be hosting an Outreach Table
at the Sundance Film Festival this year between 2-6 pm
on Saturday, Jan. 22, at Filmmakers Lodge.
So if you’re going, drop into the Filmmakers’ Lodge,
stay to listen and chat, and take a look at a new report and film,
“Untold Stories: Consequences of Copyright Clearance for Documentary
Filmmakers.” As a Sundance veteran, Aufderheide can also share
tips on how to keep ankles from freezing while waiting for the shuttle
buses between Park City's various venues.
New
Resources on the Center website
During their visit to the Center
in October 2004 for a screening of Deadline, co-directors
Katy Chevigny and Kirsten Johnson sat
down with Center interviewer Marcy Pollan to discuss the outreach
strategies used with Deadline, the newest Big Mouth Productions
project. After the nationwide Dateline broadcast in July 2004, there
is much more ongoing work being done with this film. The interview
is available on the Center website and as part of the resource material
for the Feb. outreach planning workshop:
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/conf05resources.htm
“We
live in a world where documentary film, independent documentary
film has truly become the last bastion of free speech. It really
has” said Morgan Spurlock at panel discussion
moderated by Pat Aufdreheide at the 2004 Aspen Film Festival on
political documentaries, "Fahrenheit, Fries, Fox, & Fairness:
The New Political Documentary." Spurlock (Super Size Me)
was joined by Robert Greenwald (Outfoxed),
Julia Bacha (Control Room) and Jeff
Gibbs (Fahrenheit 9/11). If you weren't there,
check out the transcription:
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/res_filmmakersspeak.html
Center
hosts INPUT 2005 Panel--Register Now!
INPUT
2005, the international public service TV conference to be held
in San Francisco in May, will gather stakeholders in public TV from
around the world, to showcase the best productions of the year and
to brainstorm the best strategies for a vibrant public media in
the 21st century. Co-productions will be the hot topic! Register
now for a rare opportunity to participate in an international conversation
about public media held within the U.S. here:
http://www.input2005.org/registration/index.html
While
you're at INPUT, please attend the Center's panel discussion on
audience engagement strategies for public service TV, including
representatives from U.S. and international TV.
Partner
Announcements
MediaRights
Releases the 4th Annual Media That Matters Film Festival on DVD
MediaRights
announces the release of its Fourth Annual Media That Matters Film
Festival DVD. On sale now to consumers through Amazon.com, to educators
through National Film Network™, and available for rental through
Netflix, the world’s largest online movie rental service,
the DVD includes all sixteen short films featured in the 2004 Festival.
The
fourth annual Media That Matters Festival premiered to a sold-out
audience on May 18, 2004, at BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn, followed
by an awards ceremony presented by HBO and hosted by rapper Chuck
D. It has since toured the country through screenings and streamed
for a limited time at www.mediathatmattersfest.org.
Created by MediaRights—a nonprofit organization dedicated
to building collaborations between filmmakers and social activists—the
Festival’s mission is to celebrate moving, engaging, and sometimes
humorous films that encourage social action and motivate change.
The films range from animation to experimental, documentary to comedy,
and offer a glimpse into the grassroots battles being fought by
activists on a variety of issues.
Several
shorts from the festival will screen at the Center, including The
Children of Birmingham in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. day.
Go to the Center Events page for full details: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/events.html
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