June 24, 2009 stacys
American Documentary|POV Award and the Audience Award (determined by online voting) goes to “A Healing Art”. The audience has spoken! The 2009 International Documentary Challenge by Team Fly On The Wall from Seattle, Washington, USA. Directed by New Day filmmaker Ellen Frick. “A Healing Art” delves into the world of artificial eye makers as they rekindle hope for victims of tragedy. Congratulations to Team Fly On The Wall!
Watch it here: http://www.docchallenge.org/Finalists/a-healing-art.html
Ellen’s New Day film is Another Side of Peace.
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June 10, 2009 stacys
Every spring, the members of New Day meet up to discuss the business of distribution and film making. The three day meeting is also a time to make new friends and discuss ideas for new projects.
Here’s some thoughts from one of the newest members of New Day on attending her first annual meeting:
Today is the last day of the New Day Annual Meeting and I survived! I joined this amazing 38-years-in-business documentary distribution collective last summer because I wanted to make sure that a film I made Writ Writer would find its way into the hands of educators. I spent a long time researching and producing the film on my own, competing for the scarce funds out there for the growing number of doc-makers, and I didn’t want “Writ Writer†to get lost in the digital shuffle. So I applied to join this coop of independent filmmakers who self-distribute their films within a collectively-run business, and they let me in. Thanks New Day!
– Susanne Mason (producer/director “Writ Writerâ€)
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