Firelight Media’s Shoshone Johnson recaps a day of practical advice for documentary film producers, held at POV’s office on Friday, February 17, 2012.
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POV & Firelight Media Summit: A Docmaker’s Survival Guide from the Legendary Filmmakers of Blackside
Journalist and aspiring filmmaker Alva French reports from the opening panel of “Sustaining a Career as a Public Media Maker,” a day-long summit held at POV.
Continue reading this entry »Project VoiceScape: Meet Filmmaker Alejandra Gama
Alejandra Gama of Goodyear, Ariz., is one of 22 teens awarded a Project VoiceScape filmmaking grant this year. Her film Right To Be An American, which documents the struggles of children of illegal immigrants in her home state, is now in production under the mentorship of Almudena Carracedo (Emmy winner Made in L.A.).
Continue reading this entry »POV Catches Up with “Made in L.A.” Filmmakers and Film Subjects
Select PBS stations are re-airing POV’s 2007 Emmy-winning film, Made in L.A., this week. (Check your local listings for day and time.) Since it’s been over two years since we’ve heard about the film’s subjects — Lupe, Maura and Maria — we asked filmmakers Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar to send us news about the
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