Urbanworld Announces 2010 Winners The 14th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival, presented by BET Networks, has announced the winners of the narrative feature, documentary feature, narrative short, documentary short, screenplay, teleplay and audience award categories. Read more on PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance CAC notes - 9/16/10 CBJT grant shines $ 2 million on CAC for biofuels, solar Read more on The Eloy Enterprise … [Read more...]
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Future Filmmaker Image by rasdourian Add it up: Crowd-fundraising can mean big bucks Creators are turning not to deep-pocketed investors but to friends and strangers online. Through websites including Kickstarter and IndieGoGo, these people pledge as little as $ 1 in exchange for 'I knew them back then' bragging rights and thank-you gifts such as limited-run CDs and books. Read more on San Jose Mercury News Crowd-fundraising can mean big … [Read more...]
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A Second Look: Allan King's 'actuality dramas' get a new audience Criterion's five-film DVD set delves into the Canadian filmmaker's technique, which blurred the boundaries between narrative and documentary. The cinéma vérité movement emerged some 50 years ago bearing the promise of lifelike immediacy and unvarnished reality. Enabled by the invention of lightweight sync-sound cameras and reflective of the larger truth-seeking and confessional … [Read more...]
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