antelles:
The visual The United States of Documentaries (Map) links to state-by-state unique documentaries from the 50 states + WDC. Check out the impressive list of American docs:
Do you remember where each of these documentaries takes place?
How about the directors?
Check your answers on the list and map at POV’s blog.
The Order of Myths
American Teen
The Brandon Teena Story
Building Bombs: The Legacy
Grizzly Man
King Corn
Area 51: Declassified
Incident at Oglala
Crossing Arizona
What’s the Matter with Kansas?
Winning New Hampshire
Undefeated
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Harlan County, USA
Street Fight
Hands on a Hard Body
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Trouble the Water
American Waitress, New Mexico
Sons of Perdition
Bowling for Columbine
The Way We Get By
Man on Wire
Man with a Plan
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
Darkon
The Trials of Darryl Hunt
A Perfect Candidate
Keeping the Peace
Young@Heart
Jesus Camp
Kurt and Courtney
Salesman
Roger & Me
Flag Wars
Before the Mountain Was Moved
Sherman’s March
American Dream
Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon
American Movie
Riding Giants
Freedom on My Mind
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
CHIEFS
Living with Wolves
Slam Planet: War of the Words
High School
The March
Hoop Dreams
Sweetgrass
Taking on the Kennedys
For our documentary enthusiast followers!
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buzzfeed:
““Nobody edits my tweets.” Booker says his philosophy is “never ever delete a tweet,” even if it is a “butt tweet.””
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The @CoryBooker Guide To Twitter
The social media mayor explains the strategy behind his hyperactive Twitter feed.
Read: BuzzFeed (via brooklynmutt)
From the Center for Social Media Archives (March 23, 2010):
A Look at Cory Booker, the Social Media Mayor
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From our vaults…Marshall Curry (Street Fight, Racing Dreams, If a Tree Falls) talks about some of the challenges of being a documentary filmmaker.
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From our archives…Christina Asquith, Author of Sister’s In War, shares her impressions of the rise of feminism in Iraq, and the lessons she learned during her time living with Iraqi women. (Part of the Center for Social Media sponsored ‘Women’s Voices in the Muslim World” presentation.)
The most effective way to empower women in a country is to let them lead the fight, and to not send over Western experts to show them what women’s rights look like, but to really fuel a grassroots effort which is probably there already.
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danceon:
Official dance scene from the ballet documentary First Position!
This was one of our favorite films at Full Frame!
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Nick Ray reports back from HotHacks:
Creating a project leveraging the web opens up uncountable opportunities for storytellers. Footage that was previously cut due to time constraints, or stories that didn’t fit tightly enough within the narrative to be included, can now contribute to the narrative of an interactive project. As freeing as the many options a media maker has may seem, however, they can also be overwhelming.
Read more here.
(Image by Ben Moskowitz)
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Another favorite Full Frame screened film of ours was Love Free or Die.
From the website:
LOVE FREE OR DIE is about a man whose two defining passions are in direct conflict: his love for God and for his partner Mark. Gene Robinson is the first openly gay person to become a bishop in the historic traditions of Christendom. His consecration in 2003, to which he wore a bullet-proof vest, caused an international stir, and he has lived with death threats every day since.
To find a screening near you, click here. This film was directed by Macky Alston.
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libraryadvocates:
Librarians at schools, colleges and universities play an important role helping their users understand and apply copyright law. This makes sense because educational institutions are sites for learning, and the advancement of learning is the purpose of the copyright. Congress recognized the unique status of non-profit educational institutions, libraries and archives under copyright law and developed allowances – copyright exceptions – especially for them. But some of these exceptions are notoriously complicated and open to varying interpretations. Even keeping track of this legal patch work can be difficult.
In response, a group of media librarians from the ALA Video Round Table approached me with a project aiming to make sense of these exceptions and come to some consensus on how media librarians should interpret the law.
See the results at districtdispatch.org
Thanks for the shout out, ALA WO!
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One of our favorite films at Full Frame was Unfinished Spaces.
From the film’s website:
In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba’s National Art Schools on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana, Cuba. Construction of their radical designs began immediately and the school’s first classes soon followed. Dancers, musicians and artists from all over the country reveled in the beauty of the schools, but as the dream of the Revolution quickly became a reality, construction was abruptly halted and the architects and their designs were deemed irrelevant in the prevailing political climate. Forty years later the schools are in use, but remain unfinished and decaying. Castro has invited the exiled architects back to finish their unrealized dream.
Screening info can be found here. This film was directed by Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray.
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