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Awards Roundup: January 26-February 3, 2010
1) Awards
Previously reported: Academy Awards
California Council for the Humanities' 2010 California Documentary Project
Production Grants Everyday Sunshine, $40,000 (Producers: Lev Anderson and Christopher Metzler) A Fierce Green Fire, $30,000 (Producer: Mark Kitchell) Forty Winters, $50,000 (Director: Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan) Heartbreak and Heroism: Stories from the Plague Years in San Francisco, $40,000 (Director: David Weissman) The History of the Universe as Told by Wonder Woman, $40,000 (Director: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Producer: Kelcey Edwards) Mobile Hi Fi, $10,000 (Directors: Mike Blockstein and Reanne Estrada) Seeking Asian Female, $30,000 (Director: Debbie Lum, Producer: Cianna Stewart) The Waiting Room, $20,000 (Producer: Peter Nicks)
Research & Development Grants Adios Amor-The Search for Maria Moreno, ...
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Book Reviews - Jul 15, 2008 12:40 - 1 Comment
Book Review: Documenting the Documentary
Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video
by Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski
ISBN: 0-8143-2639-0
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New Documentary: Man On Wire
Philippe Petit (born August 13, 1949) is a French high wire artist who gained fame for his illegal walk between the former Twin Towers in New York City on August 7, 1974. [1]
He used a 450 pound cable to do so and also a custom made 26 foot long, 55 pound balancing pole. Tight-rope walker, unicyclist, magician and pantomime artist, Philippe Petit was also one of the earliest modern day street jugglers in Paris in 1968. He juggled and worked on a slack rope with regularity in Washington Square Park in New York City in the early 1970s. Petit is one of the Artists-in-Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. Other famous structures he has used for tightrope walks include that Cathedral, The Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Louisiana Superdome, and between the Palais de Chaillot and the Eiffel Tower. Petit currently lives in Woodstock, New York. A documentary film named “Man on Wire” by UK director James Marsh dealing with Petit’s WTC performance won both the World Cinema Jury and Audience awards at the Sundance Filmfestival 2008. The film also won awards at the 2008 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, N.C.
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‘The Cove’ Team’s Sting Operation Revealed
Now we know what he was talking about.
The Oscar-winning crew discovered that popular Santa Monica sushi restaurant Hump, was serving whale. A sting operation involving tiny cameras, surveillance equipment and the whole bit revealed that the restaurant ...
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