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When: September 7-10, 2006
Where: Sydney, Australia
What: First held in October 1998, queerDOC has subsequently become established as an important event on the Australian and international gay and lesbian film festival calendar. queerDOC remains the world’s only documentary film festival focusing on queer (gay, lesbian transgender, transsexual, intersex etc) documentary films. As such it has a worldwide reputation and has access to the best of queer documentaries from around the world.
Website: http://www.queerscreen.com.au/
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When: April 12-15, 2007
Where: Carolina Theatre – Durham, North Carolina
What: One of the largest and best attended documentary film festivals in the United States. Over 100 documentary films screened. Festival offers panel discussions, semiars, and Q&A sessions.
Website: http://www.fullframefest.org
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I once asked Fleiss what she liked about the sex business. “I don’t like anything about the sex business,†she said, “but it’s all I know how to do.†For doing what she knows how to do and otherwise, she has a motto: “Maximize and capitalize.†One of the ways she’s been maximizing and capitalizing lately involves HBO. See, Fleiss filed for bankruptcy a few years back. She told me the government got every penny of her madam money, that those secret Swiss bank accounts weren’t all that secret once Uncle Sam got involved. Originally, for her stud farm, she’d planned on getting investors, but then she changed her mind. “I’m Heidi Fleiss,†she said. “I don’t need investors.â€
Nope, but she needed HBO. She needed them because they agreed to pay her for the rights to make a documentary about her attempt to open a stud farm. Rumors were they’d put up a hundred grand. “No,†she said, “it’s a little more than that.†But they’d paid up-front, and Fleiss said she was sinking the money into her new establishment. What interested me was that Time Warner owns HBO, which meant that one way or another, Time Warner was helping to pay for the nation’s first stud farm. I called HBO to confirm this, and while they would admit to making a documentary about the stud farm (it will air next fall), they wouldn’t discuss finances.
Click for the full article in LA Weekly.
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From a letter sent out to supporters:
Back in February, I asked if people would send me letters describing their experiences with our health care system. I received over 19,000 of them. It was truly overwhelming as we literally took a month and read them all. To read about the misery people are put through on a daily basis by our profit-based system was both moving and revolting. That’s all I will say right now.
We’ve spent the better part of this year shooting our next movie, “Sicko.” As we’ve done with our other films, we don’t discuss them while we are making them. If people ask, we tell them “Sicko” is “a comedy about 45 million people with no health care in the richest country on earth.”
But like my other movies, what we start with (General Motors, guns, 9/11) is not always what we end with. Along the way, we discover new roads to go down, roads that often surprise us and lead us to new ideas — and challenge us to reconsider the ones we began with. That, I can say with certainty, is happening now as we shoot “Sicko.” I don’t think the country needs a movie that tells you that HMOs and the pharmaceutical companies suck. Everybody knows that. I’d like to show you some things you don’t know. So stay tuned for where this movie has led me. I think you might enjoy it.
At this point, we’ve shot about 75% of “Sicko” and will soon begin putting it together. It will be released in theaters sometime in 2007.
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When: October 30-November 5, 2006
Where: Leipzig, Germany
What: The largest German festival for documentary film but also one of the most traditional and important ones on an international level. Founded in 1955 by the club of East German film technicians (“Club der Filmschaffenden der DDR”) it started as the first independent film festival in East Germany called the “1st All-German Leipzig Festival of Cultural and Documentary Films.” The annual international film festival was established by director Wolfgang Kernicke in 1960.
Website: http://www.dokfestival-leipzig.de
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Where: New York City
What: The New School is a progressive university comprising eight schools bound by a common, unusual intent: to prepare and inspire its 9,300 undergraduate and graduate students to bring actual, positive change to the world. One school is Media Studies. Some media studies degrees emphasize theory. Others focus on production. The New School’s Media Studies master’s degree is one of the few in the country that allows the student to integrate coursework in media theory, media production, and media management.
Programs: Graduate Certificate in Documentary Studies, Master of Arts in Media Studies
Website: http://www.mediastudies.newschool.edu/
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Where: Duke University
What: The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University teaches, engages in, and presents documentary work grounded in collaborative partnerships and extended fieldwork that uses photography, film/video, audio, and narrative writing to capture and convey contemporary memory, life, and culture. CDS serves as a resource for individuals and groups wishing to learn or develop documentary skills. CDS-sponsored courses taught at Duke University are open to area university students.
Programs: Undergraduate, graduate, and adult learning certification; workshops and institutes
Website: http://www-cds.aas.duke.edu/
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Where: Communications Department, Stanford University
What: The program is intensive and requires residency for two consecutive years. We encourage applications from highly motivated individuals with diverse backgrounds, regardless of their undergraduate course of study. Our experience indicates that mature applicants with work experience tend to flourish and excel in the program. The conceptual and technical skills required for documentary work are sufficiently different from fictional narrative to make the Stanford program inappropriate for students interested in feature filmmaking.
Programs: MFA in Documentary Film and Video
Website: http://communication.stanford.edu/documentary/
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Where: Bolzano, Italy
What: ZeLIG is one of the few professional training institutions in Europe that offers specific preparation in the field of documentary making. The school’s location in the alpine border city of Bolzano, in the bilingual province of Bolzano-South Tyrol, has had a definite impact on the school’s multi-language approach and international perspective. In 1988 a group of cineastes, film-making professionals and producers founded the ZeLIG Cooperative – Film School. From the very beginning funding for the school has been guaranteed by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, through the provincial commissions for professional training in Italian, German and Ladin.
Programs: Diploma in Documentary Film and Audiovisual Communication; introductory and specialization courses for youths and professionals
Website: http://www.zeligfilm.it/
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When: June 2006
Where: La Rochelle, France
What: A film market that facilitates contacts, purchasing, selling, and networking in the documentary industry.
Website: http://www.silverdocs.com/
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When: June 2007
Where: Silver Springs, Maryland
What: A large well funded festival that screens over 100 films each year.
Website: http://www.silverdocs.com/
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When: October 12-22, 2006
Where: New York City, New York
What: Long running spring festival now in the fall. Festival includes screenings of premieres, works-in-progress and classic docs. Every screening is introduced by the filmmaker and followed by a question and answer session with the same. Website: http://www.mtr.org/festivals/mtrdocfest2006/
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When: September 2007
Where: Jackson Hole, Wyoming
What:Â Biennial wildlife festival with multiple juried awards
Website: http://www.jhfestival.org/
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When: October 20-29, 2006
Where: Hot Springs, Arkansas
What: One of the larger U.S. documentary film festivals.  Going into its 15th year, this festival screens over 50 films and hosts around a hundred filmmakers each year.
Website: http://www.hsdfi.org/
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Where: University of Wales, Newport
What: The course is designed and taught by an experienced and award winning team of documentary filmmakers. An ideas-led approach develops practical competences in handling relevant equipment and processes involving cameras, sound, editing and lighting. Accompanying lectures, seminars, screenings and workshops will give a solid grounding in the history and theory of documentary film and contemporary issues. This will enable the student to become an active researcher by developing skills such as writing, interviewing and presentation. The International Film School Wales (IFSW) is the recognised leading institution for the promotion and development of the audiovisual culture of Wales through higher-level education, research and training. There are currently over 500 undergraduate and postgraduate students at IFSW.
Programs: Documentary Film and Television BA
Website: http://artschool.newport.ac.uk/filmtv.html
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Downtown Community Television is proud to host the first annual 24 Hour Film Festival, 24 straight hours of independent (including a number of documentaries). The festival takes place at the historic DCTV firehouse in downtown Manhattan, July 7th at 7:30pm, followed by 24 hours of films, food, rooftop screenings, special guest programs and more.
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When: April 20-29, 2007
Where: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
What: North America’s largest documentary festival. hot docs presents a selection of more than 100 documentaries from Canada and around the globe. Through its industry programmes, the festival also provides a full range of professional development, market and networking opportunities for documentary professionals.
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