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A mini masterclass with Frederick Wiseman
While this is in many ways a continuation of Docs In Progress Executive Director Erica Ginsberg's Silverdocs coverage, she felt it important to give Frederick Wiseman his own blog entry.
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Erica's take on the films at Silverdocs
Docs In Progress Executive Director Erica Ginsberg has split the duties of Silverdocs reporting this year with Matthew Radcliff from Paignton Pictures. While both have already chimed in a bit about the conference, what did they get from the festival itself? First up, Erica...
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Silverdocs is Upon Us but Where is Erica?
Yes Silverdocs is here and so am I, but the Docs Insider blog has remained relatively silent. I was stunned last night at the festival's industry lounge to have a fairly influential person from the documentary broadcast world asking me where my blog was. Aside from being stunned that said person even read this blog -- as infrequent as it has become -- I also felt stunned that I am able to cobble together any words at all tonight to meet this surprising demand.
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Silverdocs is just around the corner...
We are less than a month away from Silverdocs (or more properly AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival) when the documentary world converges on downtown Silver Spring. It€™s still one of our favorite documentary festivals and it€™s not just because it is only a stone€™s throw away from Docs In Progress. / Israel/Palestinian Territories/USA, 2009, 81 minutes (Director: Julia Bacha)-This rousing film about one Palestinian village and its unlikely hero-humble family man turned activist Ayed Morrar-reveals the power of ordinary people to peaceably fight for extraordinary change.
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