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If you've missed an issue, here you can find past Center news, reports and events. Click on the date to see the newsletter, or click on the items linked to website archives.

May 2006

April 2006

- "Many to Many: Public Media and the Blogosphere" by Marty Lucas
- “Free Culture, Phase 2”
- Fair Use Panel at CINE Golden Eagle Awards
- Fair Use at Nashville Film Festival
- Fair Use at Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conference
- “Beyond Broadcast” Conference
- SILVERDOCS and “The Future of Real” Conference
- Fair Use, Free Speech on the Road
- Fair Use, Free Speech UFVA Film Contest
- WIFV Wednesday One: Getting the Right Rights
- Lillian Jiménez: "Antonia Pantoja: Forging a Path for Puerto Rican Civil Rights in the U.S."
- Partner News

March 2006

- Mark Your Calendar! Upcoming Events
- Future of Public Media
- Free Speech? Fair Use!
- Making Your Doc Matter 2006
- Jessica Duda joins CSM as its new Associate Director
- From Our Partners

February 2006

- Leading Lawyer on Clearance, Copyright and Fair Use
- Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice
- What Fair Use Really Means
- The Republic of Blogs
- The Environmental Film Festival at the Center’s Wechsler Theatre
- News from the Future of Public Media
- News from the Fair Use Project
- CSM On the Road
- Partner Announcements

January 2006

- Register for Making Your Documentary Matter producers workshop
- David Liroff launches the Public Media Roundtable Speaker Series
- MLK Day Film Screening: Race is the Place
- Michael C. Donaldson at AU to speak on copyright and fair use for filmmakers
- Future of Public Media Wiki Space
- CSM at Sundance in January 2006
- Media That Matters Film Festival: Fair Use Award
- CSM Report From the Road: IDFA 2005
- Partner Announcements

December 2005

- News from the Future of Public Media Project
- The 2nd Annual Making Your Documentary Matter Workshop
- News from the Fair Use and Free Speech Project
- WORLD AIDS DAY – December 1, 2005 Screening

November 2005

- The Center's November Events
- Visiting Filmmakers Paco de Onís and Peter Kinoy
- Untold Stories on the Road
- Making Your Documentary Matter Workshop
- The Future of Public Media News

October 2005

- The Center's October Events
- Visiting Filmmakers Paco de Onís and Peter Kinoy
- CSM's Untold Stories News
- Copyright Events November 18

September 2005

- September Center Events
- Visiting Filmmaker Jos de Putter
- CSM's Untold Stories News
- Welcoming new Center staff
- From Our Partners: DC Labor Film Fest

August 2005

- Fall Events Schedule
- Fall Visiting Filmmakers
- CSM's Untold Stories News
- Center Announces Human Rights Film Series
- Welcoming new Center staff
- From Our Partners: Media That Matters Fest and DC Labor Film Fest

June/July 2005

- Center hosts panel at SILVERDOCS
- CSM's Untold Stories on the Road
- Bill Moyers quote Aufderheide at FreePress conference
- Reports from INPUT 2005
- Interview with Tia Lessin
- Announcement: Media That Matters Fest now online

May 2005

- The World Stopped Watching: Visiting Filmmaker Peter Raymont
- Center Panel at INPUT 2005
- CSM's Untold Stories on the Road!
- Center hosts panel at SILVERDOCS Conference
- Announcing new Center staff
- CSM Visiting Magnum Photographers in the News
-News From Just Vision

April 2005

- Untold Stories on the Road: Society for Cinema & Media Studies and Copyright Society of the USA and Greater Philadelphia Film Society
- Announcing new grant to develop Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use
- CSM Panel at INPUT 2005
- Grad Student Scholarship Winners Announced
- New Staff, New Office Location

March 2005

- Untold Stories II Launches
- Center Panel Discussion at INPUT 2005
- Graduate Student Scholarships to INPUT Announced
- DC Environmental Film Festival Line-up
- Visiting Filmmaker Tia Lessin: Making Controversial Documentaries

February 2005

- Making Your Documentary Matter. workshop resources now available
- Report from the Road: Aufderheide at Sundance
- Filmmakers fixing copyright problems
- New Teaching Resources: Media and social change and video activism
- Environmental Film Festival is coming!
- Announcement: Just Vision's Online Network for Peace is up and running
- Announcement: INPUT 2005 Registration Ongoing

January 2005

- Producer workshop on outreach strategies in February
- Center's spring Events line-up announced
- Center goes to Sundance Film Festival
- New Resources available on the Center web site
- Center to host INPUT 2005 Panel on outreach strategies

December 2004

- "Making Your Documentary Matter: Outreach and Impact Strategies that Work" in February
- Panel discussion launched Untold Stories: Creative Consequences of the Rights Clearance Culture for Documentary Filmmakers
- Center launches new video on clearance and copyright titled Stories Untold by Brigid Maher
- Screening: Checkpoint – Best of INPUT 2004
- New Teaching Resources on the Center web site
- Announcement: 5th Annual Media that Matters Film Festival call for entries

November 2004

- Center to debut report on documentary filmmakers and “clearance culture”
- Screening: Checkpoint – Best of INPUT 2004
- Producer workshop on outreach strategies announced for February 2005
- AU SOC professor and Center adviser Charlene Gilbert’s film Children Will Listen to air on PBS
- Panel Discussion: AIDS in Focus: Telling the story behind the headlines
- Interview: Katie Chevigny and Kirsten Johnson
- Announcement: INPUT 2005 Call for Submissions

October 2004

- 2004 Human Rights Film Series: Discovering Dominga, Afghanistan Unveiled, Control Room and Deadline with Katy Chevigny and Kirsten Johnson
- Presentation: Magnum Photographer Chien-Chi Chang
- Lecture: Katy Chevigny on “What makes media independent”
- Center co-director Pat Aufderheide to moderate panel at Virginia Film Festival
- Center report on documentary filmmakers and “clearance culture” to debut November 8th
- Upcoming Screening: Checkpoint – Best of INPUT 2004
- Center director chairs panel at the Aspen Film Festival that showcases political documentaries
- Announcement: INPUT 2005 call for submissions
- Announcement: United Nations Association Film Festival, Oct. 20-24th

September 2004

- Aufderheide discusses Silver City with John Sayles and Maggie Renzi at AFI
- Screening: In Light of Reverence Screening on National Mall
- "Filmmakers Take on Hollywood Media Consolidation" Panel Discussion online
- Human Rights Film Series Updates
- Intellectual Property and documentary report launch
- Best of INPUT 2004 Screenings
- Announcement: 5th Annual Media That Matters Festival Call for Entries
- Announcement: INPUT 2005

August 2004

- Center cosponsors screening of In Light of Reverence on the National Mall
- Center receives grant from Annie E. Casey Foundation for workshop on outreach strategies
- 4th Annual Human Rights Film Series Announced
- Visiting Filmmaker: Katy Chevigny Announced
- Center to partner with Goethe Institute, WHUT and WETA to host screenings from INPUT 2004 in Washington, D.C.
- Center to cosponsor the 2005 INPUT in San Francisco, May 1-6, 2005

June/July 2004

- Christopher Palmer joins Center Advisory Committee
- Easier access to documentaries: Netflix and POV partnership
- Center co-director Pat Aufderheide moderates panel at burgeoning SILVERDOCS Film Festival
- Center co-director Pat Aufderheide hosts workshop session at pARTicipate
- Opening of the Center’s new virtual library and reorganized Resources
- Personal documentary site relaunched
- Judith Helfand discussion transcript available in Resources: Filmmakers Speak

May 2004

- Presentation: Patrice O'Neill: Stories of Hope and Fear
- Youth as E-Citizens Report update
- Center partners with MediaRights for 4th Annual Media That Matters Film
Festival

- Socially engaged films and filmmakers at HotDocs annual meeting
- Future of Music Coalition Summit wraps up

April 2004

- Center releases its latest report: Youth as E-Citizens: Engaging the Digital Generation
- Center co-director participates at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
- Screening: Valentina’s Nightmare and Rwanda: The Weapon
- Screening and discussion: Patrice O’Neill and Pamela Calvert
- Announcement: Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit in DC

March 2004

- 2004 DC Environmental Film Festival at AU
- Screening and discussion: Ronit Avni and Just Vision
- Center report “In the Battle for Reality: Social Documentaries in the U.S.” used in teaching
- Center is looking for syllabi for courses on social issue media
- Partner organizational calendar for March 2005

February 2004

- Center at the Digital Independence Conference in San Francisco
- Center report “What Keeps Social Documentaries from Audiences – and How to Fix It” released at Sundance Film Festival
- Center report “In the Battle for Reality: Social Documentaries in the U.S.” used in teaching
- Center is looking for syllabi for courses on social issue media
- Center Assistant Director Agnes Varnum joins the programming committee of SILVERDOCS Film Festival
- 2004 DC Environmental Film Festival at AU

January 2004

- Center releases report “What Keeps Social Documentaries from Audiences – and how to Fix It”
- Center releases report “Digital Futures: A Need-to-Know Policy Guide for Independent Filmmakers”
- Interview: Gordon Quinn and “The New Americans”
- Screening: Citizen King with Orlando Bagwell
- Presentation: Magnum Photographer Leonard Freed

December 2003

- Center prepares for release of report “In the Battle for Reality: U.S. Documentaries for Social Change”
- Center prepares for release of report “Digital Futures: A Need-to-know Policy Guide for Independent Filmmakers”

November 2003

- Kathryn Montgomery becomes Center’s new co-director
- Visiting Filmmaker: Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films
- Presentation: Photographer Jenny Matthews
- Update on Center’s ongoing research into intellectual property issues faced by independent filmmakers
- New resources added to the Center web site

October 2003

- Media that Matters Film Festival comes to the Center
- Three Center board members participate in panel discussion at IFP
- Get involved in the Center’s survey on right issues
- Upcoming event: 2003 Annual Human Rights Series

September 2003

- Center launches research into copyright law and documentary filmmaking
- Screening: Willful Infringement with Jed Horovitz



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