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Southern Filmmakers Convene in Durham
On the heels of the Full Frame Film Festival, Durham, NC continues to foster a thriving documentary community. Documentarians from the South and beyond will gather June 9 – 11, 2017 for the annual Southern Documentary Fund (SDF) Artists Convening.
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Ford Foundation: The Art of Democracy: Creative Expression and American Greatness
By Darren Walker
Good evening, everyone. Thank you, Thelma Golden, for your gracious introduction—and, more importantly, for your groundbreaking, visionary leadership at the Studio Museum in Harlem. And thank you, all, for this extraordinary honor: the privilege of delivering this 30th annual lecture in tribute to the incomparable Nancy Hanks.
Video Roundtable: Youth Media (April 2017)
Check out The Alliance's Youth Media Video Roundtable from last month!
Filmmaker Mag: Five Questions with Water Warriors Director Michael Premo
By Paula Bernstein
I saw Water Warriors in February, just a month after Donald Trump’s inauguration, during its world premiere at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana.
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The Advocate: Why Black Gay Filmmaker Marlon Riggs Matters Now
By Charles Stephens
During the 1992 presidential primaries, Pat Buchanan, seeking the Republican Party's nomination, used an unauthorized clip from Tongues Untied to blast the National Endowment for the Arts and attack George H. W. Bush.
CPB: Statement on the President’s Budget Proposal Eliminating Funding for Public Media
By Patricia Harrison
There is no viable substitute for federal funding that ensures Americans have universal access to public media’s educational and informational programming and services.
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Battle for the Net: Our Letter to the FCC
Protecting net neutrality is crucial to ensuring that the internet remains a central driver of economic growth and opportunity, job creation, education, free expression, and civic organizing for everyone.
Cosmo: Why It’s Important to Recognize That ‘Moonlight’ Was Robbed Of Its Moment
By Brittney Cooper
The Academy Awards did the best possible thing in the worst possible way last night, when it conferred Moonlight the Oscar for Best Picture.