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* 30-minute documentary airs Sunday* Movie seeks to help kids speak out* Aimed at youths ages 8 to 13By Susan HeaveyWASHINGTON, March 14 (Reuters) - President BarackObama appears in an upcoming Cartoon...
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Edwin Stepp's insight:
Lots of good filmmaking and storytelling in the short list of documentaries up for an Oscar.
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Participant Media is teaming up with the Doha Film Institute to launch a US$100 million revolving fund, and to explore creating content for Participant's TV network, launching in August.
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American crowdfunding site Kickstarter has passed the US$100 million mark for funds pledged to film projects, with $42.6 million of that amount raised for documentary projects.
Edwin Stepp's insight:
This news is very encouraging, however a little less than half of Kickstarter campaigns are successful. But with the right planning and forethought your idea can get a big boost from crowdfunding like this. And the money is not the only big benefit from crowdfunding. The community built around your project has long term potential for you and your film.
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Discovery Communications has reached an agreement with ProSiebenSat.1 Group to buy the company's SBS Nordic operations for US$1.7 billion in a deal that radically shakes up the European channel ownership landscape.
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"I’m making this movie, because I believe that better societies are built not by political or economic systems, but by better individuals."
--Filmmaker Viktoria Ershova
A documentary about growing up between two worlds and the true meaning of positive transformation.
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After years of tweaking and changing the Oscar documentary rules, Michael Moore says he's going to propose ending the special treatment...
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Even as Cannes announced its lineup, speculation and predictions loomed about what was in store for the triad of major festivals of the very early fall (or, technically, the very late summer).
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Joost, the online video service founded by Skype and KaZaa co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis and once touted as the next big video content delivery platform, has quietly been suspended by its current owner, Adconian Media Group. On Wednesday, Adconian said it would subsume Joost Media into smartclip, a video ad company it acquired last fall.
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The long-running doc strands will begin airing on Monday nights at 10 p.m. when the next season of 'Independent Lens' premieres on October 29.
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While the debate about structured reality negatively impacting documentary may be as old as the hills (or, more specifically, The Hills) in the U.S., with the increasing popularity of programs such as The Only Way is Essex (pictured) in the UK,...
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CNN, ABC, CBS, The BBC and Al Jazeera Among 2012 Peabody Award Winners...
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Canada's Giving Voice: Filmmakers Working with Filmmakers initiative has named five apprentices to work with industry veterans on documentary projects for four months.
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The annual IRE Awards recognize outstanding investigative work and help identify the techniques and resources used to complete each story. Entries are placed in the IRE Resource Center, allowing members to learn from each other. The IRE Awards were established in 1979. |
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Once the home to archive driven, heavily narrated non-fiction shows featuring Nazis, sharks and WWII airplanes, a large part of cable television has opened its arms to truck drivers, crab fishermen, pawnshop owners and the denizens of Louisiana...
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microsoft builds a production studio in santa monica staffed with 150 to produce original programming for the xbox.
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Film producer Participant Media is further expanding its TV footprint by launching of its own TV network. Participant has purchased the Documentary Channe 
Global Lives Project's curator insight,
December 19, 2012 3:52 PM
The makers of "An Inconvenient Truth" and other socially relevant entertainment are launching a TV Station.
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The promotion is part of a management restructuring that will see previous programming head John Wilson take on a new role as senior vice president, pledge strategy and special projects.
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A documentary about growing up between two worlds and the true meaning of positive transformation.
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Federal intervention could slam TV biz, analyst warns - Entertainment News, TV News, Media - Variety
A Wall Street media analyst issued a dire warning to the TV industry on Friday, cautioning that government interference could risk the loss of 1 million U.S. jobs, hundreds of TV channels and hundreds of billions of dollars in market capitalization..
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A delegation of 10 Chinese commissioning editors has pulled out of attending Sheffield Doc/Fest at the last minute, after the UK festival refused demands from the Chinese Embassy in London to drop Alison Klayman's doc Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry...
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Hamish Mykura (pictured), National Geographic Channels International's executive VP and head of international content, says the company's new London-based commissioning and programming hub will allow it to "take a bigger approach to the programming...
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Barry Diller Tells Senate: Online Video Same As Trad TV - 04/25/2012...
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The network, to be officially launched on May 28, will target adults 25-54 and aims to be "the first network that showcases the essence of American innovation and hard work at its core," says Discovery Communications president and CEO David Zaslav.
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Oprah Winfrey fessed up Monday to "101 mistakes" in launching her OWN network and said in hindsight she would have prepared differently, including waiting until her own syndicated show was over.. TV News from the entertainment source: Variety. |
