SOURCES 2 Script Development Workshops
Seven-day session, coached development period, follow-up session.
Workshops for professional scriptwriters and teams of writers, producers or directors with a feature-length film project in development. In general feature films and creative documentaries for cinema and television (treatment or script, documentary presentation). (more…)
Today June, 2, 2010, the event series Berlin Documentary Forum 1 opens at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany.
The Berlin Documentary Forum 1 explores the role of documentary imagery in contemporary social processes. This thematic discourse will be held by way of lectures, exhibitions, film screenings and interventions. OK, one must admit that it all sounds rather academic. Perhaps the series seems to address less the people who are affected by the politics of the image than those who deal in media theory. Nonetheless, opening a space for this type of discussion is always a good thing. Hopefully people from a variety of disciplines will meet and participate in this discourse during the 5 days of the Documentary Forum. (more…)
Established in 1998, Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF) is now the second largest documentary festival in Asia, which shows about 120 works and attracts 60,000 attendants each edition. This year, TIDF will take place from October 22nd to 31st, 2010, at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung, Taiwan. From now on, the festival calls for entries for International Competitions (International Feature-Length Documentary and International Short-Length Documentary).
In addition, Asian Vision Award is set to highlight Asian characteristics, while Taiwan Award is to center attention on Taiwanese spirit. Deadline of the entry is June 15th, 2010. Entry fees are exempt, and the total cash prize is USD50,000.
German book publishers Edition Nautilus have just recently released the German language edition of Howard Zinn’s autobiography You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times under the title “Schweigen heisst lügen” (22.- € ). Howard Zinn was a dedicated civil rights activist and historian and this book tells his life’s story. Anyone interested in America as a land of equal opportunity, peace policy and social activism should read this book. You can also experience Howard Zinn in picture and sound in the realeyz.tv video CLASS DISMISSED. Howard Zinn is also one of the commentators in the realeyz.tv AXIS OF EVIL.
Joan Braderman, whose 80s stand-up media critique classic JOAN DOES DYNASTY is on realeyz.tv, has just released her latest film Heretics. It’s a stylish and insightful documentary about legendary collective second wave feminist journal Heresies.
