Posted by editor@vimooz.com on May 28, 2009 under Documentary, PBS | 
Not everyone is a Ken Burns fan. The El Paso Defenders of Honor are sponsoring a protest against Burns, claiming he doesn’t include enough Latinos in his documentaries. Ken Burns, who’s produced landmark documentaries like The Civil War, Baseball, and World War II for PBS, is in El Paso to promote his newest project “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.”
“Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature’s most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska – The National Parks: America’s Best Idea is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background – rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy. It is a story full of struggle and conflict, high ideals and crass opportunism, stirring adventure and enduring inspiration – set against the most breathtaking backdrops imaginable.” [PBS]
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on March 9, 2009 under Documentary, PBS, People |
General Motors Corp. will stop bankrolling movies made by PBS filmmaker Ken Burns as it tries to conserve cash and survive the worst sales market in 27 years.
GM, which is in danger of running out of money this month and has asked for as much as $30 billion in federal aid, is curtailing corporate sponsorships and slashing marketing expenses.
The cash crunch ends a 22-year relationship between GM and Burns. Under a 10-year deal that started in 1999, GM paid for 35 percent of each film’s budget and funded educational outreach programs tied to each documentary. [via]
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on January 8, 2009 under Documentary |
“I.O.U.S.A.” on CNN this Saturday
CNN will run the documentary film “I.O.U.S.A.” on Saturday, January 10th at 2 p.m. The telecast will include periodic breaks for a panel discussion on issues raised in the documentary about the perils of the nation’s ballooning debt. Read more …
“The Tenth Inning” – Coming Soon to PBS
Filmmaker Ken Burns is adding a tenth inning to his nine-part “Baseball” documentary series that aired in the ’90s on public television. PBS said Wednesday that the new film, titled “The Tenth Inning,” will air in spring 2010. Read more …
State Dinners
State of the union, a step at a time Documentary filmmaker Marcus Lucas has kicked off an 80-day tour of the U.S. to capture the spirit of the of the country. Lucas, born and raised in Germany, is traveling in his pickup with trailer, Esmeralda, from one ”state dinner” to the next. Read more …
“The Exiles” – Exclusive Engagement, Hamburg, NY
“The Exiles” is a 1961 documentary written and directed by Kent MacKenzie that will be coming to the Hamburg Palace Theatre for an exclusive engagement at 7 p.m. from Tuesday, Jan. 13 through Thursday, Jan. 15. The film chronicles a day in the life of a group of twenty-something Native Americans who left the reservation life in the 1950s to live in a Los Angeles district known as Bunker Hill. Read more …
“Immokalee U.S.A.”
Florida filmmaker Georg Koszulinski’s documentary “Immokalee U.S.A.” is a sobering look at the plight of immigrant workers from Latin America who are barely surviving as laborers on a massive tomato farm on the edge of the Big Cypress Swamp near Ft. Myers. The Tallahassee Film Society screens “Immokalee” this weekend at All Saints Cinema, and Koszulinski will be on hand to discuss his movie. Read more …
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on January 6, 2009 under Documentary, Television |
Frontline – “The Old Man and The Storm”
Tampa Bay, FL. Documentary filmmaker June Cross’ Frontline film The Old Man and the Storm airs at 10 tonight on WEDU-Ch. 3) — an amazing tale tying the travails of one eightysomething black man struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath to the byzantine and often harmful decisions made by policymakers and bureaucrats regarding aid. The film documents the struggle of 82-year-old Herbert Gettridge to rebuild his devastated home in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after katrina. Read more …
“Crystal Darkness Campaign”
A 30-minute documentary about methamphetamine addiction called the Crystal Darkness Campaign, will air on local Colorado television stations Wednesday night beginning at 6:30 p.m. A Spanish version of the documentary also airs an hour earlier at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The documentary meant to combat problems meth creates, and it highlights meth’s devastating effects on young people and their families. It features interviews with recovering meth addicts. Read more …
“Heroes From the Valley”
Chattanooga,TN. Heroes From the Valley, a WTCI original documentary, has been nominated for an Emmy award in the Documentary/Historical category for the 23rd Annual Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards.
Heroes From the Valley debuted in November 2007 as a complement to Ken Burns’ World War II series, The War, and has received acclaim for its telling of the sacrifices and triumphs of Tennessee Valley residents during World War II. Read more …
“Harold Garde: Working Artist”
DeLand, FL. Acadia Moving Pictures and The Museum of Florida Art in DeLand will be presenting the world premiere of Harold Garde: Working Artist, a documentary film by Dale Schierholt, at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 10, at The Museum of Florida Art.
Schierholt’s documentary takes you inside the studio and life of accomplished artist Harold Garde. Through interviews with the artist and observations of him at work, we get a rare glimpse of the life of an artist. Read more …
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on December 31, 2008 under Documentary |
Somebody Told Me About… Carla Bruni
Carla Bruni has allowed a British film-maker’s cameras into her home, to give a revealing insight into her private life with French President, Nicolas Sarkozy. The documentary, which was made by Scottish movie-maker George Scott and is entitled Somebody Told Me About… Carla Bruni, will be aired in France on New Year’s Day and broadcast in the UK next month. Read more …
Filmmaker plans to use prosthetic eye camera for documentary
Toronto filmmaker Rob Spence says he is getting a tiny video camera put inside a prosthetic eye to allow him to secretly film his subjects. He’s not alone in his quest for an eye camera. San Francisco artist Tanya Vlach wants a camera implant in her prosthetic eye and has put out a call on her blog for engineers to build her an eye cam, which could let her shoot video from her perspective or “lifecast” events. Read more …
Documentary filmmaker Quentin Aanenson dies
Quentin C. Aanenson, a fighter pilot and a subject of Ken Burns’ documentary “The War” and the producer of his own film a decade earlier, Aanenson died Sunday of cancer at his home in Bethesda, his son, Jerry said. He was 87. He wrote, filmed and narrated the documentary, “A Fighter Pilot’s Story,” which related his wartime experiences and was shown on public television around the country starting in 1994. Read more …
The Rescuers, Heroes of the Holocaust
Filmmaker Michael King is producing and directing the feature-length documentary “The Rescuers, Heroes of the Holocaust,” which focuses on the efforts of non-Jewish diplomats. Read more …
‘Liquid Assets’ Documentary to Air on PBS in Phoenix
“Liquid Assets: The Story of Our Water Infrastructure” tells the story of essential infrastructure systems: drinking water, wastewater, and storm water. These complex and aging systems — some in the ground for more than 100 years — are critical for public health, public safety and economic prosperity. The documentary highlights communities from across the United States, providing an understanding of hidden water infrastructure assets, demonstrating watershed protection approaches, and illustrating twenty-first century solutions.
The documentary is scheduled to air locally January 4th, on KAET, Channel 8, from 2-3:30p.m.
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