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March
2005 Newsletter
Untold
Stories II Launches
The Center’s project to improve filmmakers’ access to
copyrighted materials is moving into the action phase! With help
from the Rockefeller and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, the Center is launching a nation-wide effort for filmmakers
to shape a collective Statement of Best Industry Practices in Fair
Use. For the first time, filmmakers will have a tool to determine
what is considered reasonable in fair use. Insurers, programmers
and distributors will have a shield against frivolous lawsuits.
The
Center’s efforts began with a highly successful set of meetings
with filmmakers in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and will continue
with meetings in Washington, D.C., New York and Chicago.
Learn more at: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/rock/index.htm
Center
at INPUT in San Francisco in May
At the INPUT conference in May (learn more via the URL below!),
you’ll be able to meet producers and commissioning editors
creating some of the most innovative public TV programming internationally.
The
Center is hosting a panel that brings several experts in the same
place to tell their stories. For instance, Jurrien Rood
of VideoLetters co-designed a TV series that reunites friends
long separated by the bitter and brutal wars of the Balkans. (This
is the reality TV you’ve been waiting for!) Pat Van
Heerden from South African public broadcasting tells how
a project to celebrate ten post-apartheid years drew in young and
new producers. And Mette Meyer from Denmark’s
TV2 talks about a project to create a new world-wide series on democracy
today.
U.S.
public television producers can find
out more about INPUT’s own travel scholarships to attend INPUT
at http://www.myetv.org/about_etv/input.
General INPUT information and online registration:
http://www.input2005.org
Graduate
Student Scholarships to INPUT from CSM
The Center is proud to offer 2 scholarships to outstanding graduate
students in the amount of $500 to defray costs of attending INPUT
in May. Currently enrolled graduate students may apply by sending
the Center a one-page letter describing
why you expect INPUT will be valuable to your own work and career,
and proof of current enrollment.
Apply to socialmedia@american.edu
by Friday April 1, 2005
Environmental
Film Festival is HERE!
March
is DC Environmental Film Festival time, and the CEnter will once
again be hosting several events.
March
15
An Evening with wildlife filmmaker
Chris Palmer
Palmer discusses the goal of his filmmaking: not merely to entertain,
but to encourage action on behalf of threatened species like grizzlies,
dolphins and whales.
March
17
This Land is Your Land
Filmmakers Lori Cheatle and Daisy Wright crisscross the nation
interviewing experts and individuals about corporate influence
on American life. Preceded by selections from the Media That Matters
Film Festival.
March
19
United Nations Association Film
Festival Selections: Crapshoot, Farming the Seas and Sin Embargo
Presented once again by UNAFF founder and director Jasmina Bojic,
these selection explore waste and resource management. AU School
of International Service Professor Judith Shapiro
co-hosts discussion.
Read
event details at: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/envirofilmfest.html
CSM
Visiting Filmmaker Tia Lessin on Making Controversial Documentaries
Lecture
and Clip Screening, March 30, 5:30 p.m. Wechsler Theater
Tia Lessin, the Center's visiting filmmaker for
spring 2005, will present a discussion of the challenges in making
highly controversial films. Lessin, a New York-based documentary
filmmaker, received the 2002 Sidney Hillman Award for her work as
producer and director of Behind the Labels, a film about
sweatshops in Saipan that was shown on the Oxygen cable channel,
before Congress and in theaters nationwide. Lessin was the supervising
producer of the Academy Award-winning documentary film Bowling
for Columbine and associate producer of the Academy Award-nominated
Shadows of Hate. She has twice been nominated for Emmy
Awards for her work in television. She co-produced Michael Moore's
latest film Fahrenheit 9/11.
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