Director: Shashwati Talukdar and P. Kerim Friedman.
Over 60 million Indians belong to communities imprisoned by the British as "criminals by birth." The Chhara of Ahmedabad, in Western India, are one of 198 such "Criminal Tribes." Declaring that they are "born actors," not "born criminals," a group of Chhara youth have turned to street theater in their fight against police brutality, corruption, and the stigma of criminality — a stigma internalized by their own grandparents. 'Please Don't Beat Me, Sir!' follows the lives of these young actors and their families as they take their struggle to the streets, hoping their plays will spark a revolution.
The 34th edition of the M. Mead Film Festival presented 38 selections from November 11 to 14 at the American Museum of Natural History, its principal sponsor. This festival is the oldest documentary film festival in the United States and includes outstanding and innovative productions covering animation, experimental approaches, in addition to archival material and restored films with a large number not shown before in the New York metropolitan area. Transcending the strict ethnographic film a...
For the second straight year, Rooftop Films is proud to partner with The Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival. The Mead showcases the best in non-narrative filmmaking, encompassing a broad spectrum of work including international documentaries, experimental films, animation, hybrid works, and more. The Festival presents documentaries that increase our understanding of the complexity and diversity of the peoples and cultures that populate our planet. THE FILMS BY THE RIVER (Magdalena Kowalczyk |...
CAMBOFEST, Cambodia ~ Call for Entries Continues through November 1st Cambodia's longest running international movie event! UPDATE: For the 4.0 Edition, CamboFest hosts the long-belated Cambodian premiere of Robert Flaherty's classic documentary, "Nanook of the North" - 88 years after its release - with the kind permission of Flaherty Seminars. Founded in 2550 (2007), CAMBOFEST: Film and Video Festival of Cambodia is one of the only annual international movie events in Cambodia ...
X anniversary International Documentary Film Festival “Flahertiana” is open for entries. Deadline for entries – 1 June, 2010
The festival is held from 14 to 20 October, 2010, in Perm, Russia.
The festival program includes documentaries that develop the cinematography aesthetics first introduced by Robert Flaherty in his masterpiece “Nanook of the North”, portraying the human character’s real life on film and structuring it on the screen according to the laws of drama...
The X International Documentary Film Festival “Flahertiana” taking place from 14-20 October, 2010, in Perm, Russia, has launched call for entries. The festival accepts documentaries that develop the cinematography aesthetics first introduced by Robert Flaherty in his masterpiece Nanook of the North. Please, check festival regulations page for more details on entry conditions at http://flahertiana.ru/eng/2010/regulations/.
Deadline for entries is 1 June, 2010.
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Wednesday, November 7-------------The Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, the longest-running documentary film festival in the United States, celebrates 31 years of bringing international documentaries to New York audiences with an eclectic program of 29 films from all over the planet. The Festival will unspool at the American Museum of Natural History this coming weekend.The Festival surveys such timely topics as user-generated Web content, disability and community, struggles with sexual ...
The Cannes International Film Festival has almost nothing in common with the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles and Hollywood, and yet, people tend to treat each other in the same way: every man for himself. When someone takes time out of their schedule to speak to you, knowing that you are not going to buy their movie or advance their career in some way, that person is someone who is worth talking to. This was the sort of situation that led me to Ken Feinberg, write...
The 8th edition of Encounters South African International Documentary FestivalJohannesburg: Nu Metro Hyde Park 14 July – 23 July 2006Cape Town: Nu Metro V & A Waterfront 21 July – 6 August 2006Every year Encounters brings to South African audiences ‘factional’ films. Films that often contradict popular beliefs, but that still allow people to make up their own minds about what is happening in the world – the intimate, the political, the musical, the personal. This year, Encounter’s 8t...
By launching the rights acquisition component of their online rights management system, inDplay announced today that the inDplay.com online film rights trading marketplace is open for business. Now, fully segmented film rights can be traded securely over the web. The services inDplay.com provides are a flexible buyer-seller negotiation process, and a contract, rights and payments management system, which allows buyers and sellers of filmed entertainment to negotiate, license and settle payments ...
Miami International Film Festival Announces Special ProgramsMiami International Film FestivalThe mission of the Miami International Film Festival is to bring the best of world cinema to South Florida. MIFF uses the unique geographical and cultural position of Miami to make the festival a premiere venue for the exhibition of international and U.S. films, with special focus on Ibero-American cinema. Both juried and audience awards are given in dramatic and documentary categories.The Miami Internat...
FILM INDUSTRY: MARKET INFOIn the face of frictions arising between the various markets, of problems derived from the stretching sales slump, of the development of new technologies which will take a toll on the future, Mifed has decided to carry out an in-depth survey to grasp the actual needs of the film industry.We feel the gathered data – shown below – are useful to both markets and festivals, and have been fundamental for Audiovisual Industry Promotion to draft up the new Mifed 2004 proje...
Audiovisual Industry Promotion strategy for Mifed 2004 and future guidelines.MIFED 2004The 71st Mifed will take place from October 12th to 16th at Milan Fairgrounds.The choice of the new dates has been based on the needs expressed by the market majority (attendance to the greatest number of markets) and to favour both financially and logistically sellers and non European buyers already in Europe for the market scheduled just beforehand – MipCom, 4-8 October.Mifed will be simultaneous to and in...
