Funding: ITVS International calling for documentaries with global stories

ITVS International Call enables independent producers from outside the United States to create documentaries for U.S. television. Deadline for applying for the 2011 round of funding is December 10, 2010.

ITVS International funded Journals of a Wily School

The International Call funding initiative was created to give U.S. audiences access to international programming and voices on American television. The funding is only available to independent producers who are neither U.S. citizens nor residents of the U.S. (more…)

Welcome to the Archive, Part 2: Films Out of the Can Onto the Screen

Cinémathèque Francaise co-founder (and spiritual father of the Nouvelle Vague) Henri Langlois once quipped that Britain’s preservation-oriented National Film Archive’s acronym N.F.A. actually stood for “no film available”. Indeed, it has been commonly (mis)conceived that preservation and access are mutually exclusive. Yes, projection does eventually wear down celluloid prints. But if nobody watches these films, isn’t that analogous to the proverbial tree falling in the empty forest? (more…)

Urgent Action in Solidarity of Textile Workers in Bangla Desh

Sorry, this article is only available in German. (more…)

Facebook - Closed Book?

I was listening to the radio a couple minutes ago and a presenter  mentioned that he can’t connect to his Facebook account today. I have  just checked my Facebook account too and I can’t connect either.

Strange! I wonder if this problem only occurs in Berlin now or if it  is a wider problem. I don’t see much about the subject on the internet  right now.

Comments, info, hints etc. greatly appreciated! Drop a line to privacy@realeyz.tv

Heinrich Steinfest: Crime Novels for Armchair Potatoes

News from the Analog World

It all started with “Gewitter über Pluto” and “Mariaschwarz”. Here was a new author that I really liked: Austrian Heinrich Steinfest.  What a pleasure! Inventive, humorous, nasty, absolutely absurd yet staying in the here and now. Associative and thoughtful. Wonderful.

I’ve just finished the author’s seventh book, “Batmans Schönheit”. I’m sad to report that I find myself at the low point of a slowly evolving disillusionment which crept in while reading my way backwards through his body of work. (more…)