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Documentary | Females in Film | Festival Interviews | Filmmaking | Massachusetts
Festival Interview: Going the Distance
Jessie Beers-Altman shares the inspiration for her sports documentary short Going the Distance and the unique soothing effect it has on her infant son. Her award-winning film, which originally screened at Independent Film Festival Boston, is now available here, playing through October 15 as part of the 2016 Online New England Film Festival.
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Documentary | Festival Interviews | Filmmaking | Interviews | Maine | Vermont
Festival Interview: Dunk Tank Clowns
Director Daniel McGuire recalls the clown who inspired his short Dunk Tank Clowns and a crowd’s reaction to one of his subjects in this interview with NewEnglandFilm.com. Originally screened at Salem Film Fest, his film is now screening here through October 15 as part of the 2016 Online New England Film Festival.
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Connecticut | Documentary | Festival Interviews | Filmmaking | Interviews
Festival Interview: Coaching Colburn
Screening at festivals from the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival to the Rhode Island International Film Festival, Coaching Colburn is now screening on NewEnglandFilm.com through October 15 as part of the 2016 Online New England Film Festival. Here, Bemiss talks about the unusual trajectory of the film—from collaborative student production to award-winning festival hit—and about the impact the film has had on its subjects and audience.
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Company/Organization Profiles | Documentary | Film Festival & Event Profiles | Film Festivals | Maine
Camden Launches Year-round Institute for Docs
Camden International Film Festival announces the launch of their Points North Institute, a year-round institute poised to be a launching pad for the next generation of nonfiction storytellers. The institute’s retreats, residencies, fellowships and grant programs will provide a full spectrum of resources for nonfiction filmmakers and media artists.
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Company/Organization Profiles | Corporate | Documentary | Massachusetts
Windy Films: Documenting Social Impact
In 2012, Windy Films was founded by three friends—Editor Tripp Clemens, Cinematographer Harvey Burrell, and Producer Will Humphrey. In this video interview, NewEnglandFilm.com writer David Pierotti interviews the three partners about how they built their business and their projects.
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Documentary | Females in Film | Filmmaking | Interviews | Massachusetts
A Small Good Thing
Fellow female filmmakers discuss work, life, and more in this series, Females in Film. For this installment, NewEnglandFilm.com writer Catherine Stewart talks to filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll as her latest work, A Small Good Thing releases in theaters.
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Documentary | Filmmaking | Interviews | Rhode Island
Festival Interview: Marian Gagnon
From print journalist to PhD to indie documentary filmmaker, Marian Gagnon has created an intimate portrayal of lighthouse keeper and unlikely heroine Ida B. Lewis’s life from age 15 to 69 (1857 to 1911), charting the impact she inadvertently had on the early women’s rights movement. The resulting film America’s Forgotten Heroine: Ida Lewis, Keeper of the Light screens online as part of the 2015 Online New England Film Festival.
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Documentary | Filmmaking | Interviews | Massachusetts
Documenting the Filmmaker
In this series, fellow female filmmakers discuss work, life, and more in this new series. For this installment, NewEnglandFilm.com writer Catherine Stewart talks to filmmaker Lucia Small as her latest work, One Cut, One Life begins its theatrical release in Boston.
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Documentary | Filmmaking | Interviews
Main Street or Mall Street?
The Tasty Diner was a fixture in Harvard Square for over 80 years before being evicted from its spot in an historic building. In 'Touching History,' filmmaker Federico Muchnik documents the struggle to preserve this local institution and highlights similar debates across the country over historic preservation and support for local businesses.
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Documentary | Filmmaking | Interviews
Breaking the Silence
Governed for decades by stealthy intimidation and invisible threats, the people of Sicily finally united to wrench their community from the iron grasp of the tyrannical Mafia. John Michalczyk's new documentary 'Killing Silence' explores the devastation and valor left in the wake of a social revolution, a battle of good versus evil.
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