FW: Urgent: Cambodia's only independent film festival still faces funding shortfall--but supporters are standing up for the cause![Phnom Penh, Cambodia, May 24, 2009]CAMBOFEST, Cambodia's first and only internationally recognizedindependent film festival (now in it's 3rd year) is still facing asignificant funding shortage, three weeks into a Spring/Beginning ofrainy season funding drive. Despite international acclaim and kudosfrom industry professionals as varied as Julie and Roger Corman, thefe...

Mar. 14, 2008 IFTA President-CEO Jean Prewitt sent the following open letter to MPAA Chairman-CEO Dan Glickman: March 14, 2008 Mr. Dan Glickman Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Motion Picture Association of America 1600 Eye Street NW Washington, D.C. 20006 Dear Dan: The Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) was astounded to read that the MPAA and the six major studios who are its members have taken the step of denouncing the principle of 'net neutrality' and its advocates. I w...

Jack Valenti, the former head of the Motion Picture Assn. of America for almost four decades and the prime mover behind the movie ratings system, died Thursday. He was 85. Valenti had checked out of Johns Hopkins University Medical Center on Wednesday where he was hospitalized after suffering a stroke. We loved his strong tenure, relentless battle against piracy, strong advocate of american cinema from majors and independents...I had the priviledge of dining a few times with his family and celeb...