New Day member Linda Hoag
lund reports that ANPO: Art X War has been nominated by the Japanese government’s Agency of Cultural Affairs for its prestigious, annual Documentary Film Prize.
Results will be announced in October, 2011. Filmmaker, Linda Hoaglund, is especially honored by the nomination because it will help to highlight the oil paintings and artwork featured in her film.
Pamela Yates receives the Founder’s Award for our film “Granito: How To Nail A Dictator” at the Traverse City Film Festival (I’m behind the iPhone). The TCFF is an amazing film festival started by Michael Moore that I’m sure all New Day members would love. It is run by 850 volunteers from the community with only 2 paid positions, and is the most organized, filmmaker friendly festival I have ever attended. A truly exemplary community effort!
Greetings New Day Film-lovers!
PBS’s Independent Television Service (ITVS) is commemorating its 20th anniversary with a free online film festival featuring 20 compelling documentaries from July 25-September 23.
Two of them are New Day Films favorites: Johnny Symons’ “Daddy and Papa,” and Rick Goldsmith’s “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers.”
We like to point out that New Day Films distributes more than three dozen ITVS-funded films… and that ITVS came about because of the pioneering work of independent filmmakers and visionary programmers. We’re proud to be part of that legacy and thrilled that ITVS is sharing some of this great work with audiences this summer.
Link here to New Day’s Johnny Symons on his experience with ITVS
Link here to the ITVS free online film festival
By the way… what’s your favorite independent documentary film this summer? Leave us a comment and let us know~
New Day Films is proud to announce that four films in the collection have been nominated for Emmy Awards in the 32nd Annual News & Documentary Categories. For Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story-Long Form, Rebecca Richman Cohen, Director/Producer of “War Don Don,” and S. Leo Chiang, Producer/Director of “A Village Called Versailles.” For Outstanding Informational Programming-Long Form, Stephanie Wang-Breal, Director/Producer of “Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy.” For New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Documentaries, Jen Gilomen and Sally Rubin Producer/Directors of “Deep Down??A Story From the Heart of Coal Country, The Virtual Mine.” “War Don Don” was also nominated for Outstanding Editing, and filmmaker member Rebecca Snedeker’s recent work was nominated in the Outstanding Historical Programming-Long Form category. Congratulations to these filmmakers!
Big news for Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy! The film is currently on its way to Korea for the Disabled Persons’ Human Rights Film Festival in Jeju! Also, Alice Elliott has just been awarded a grant from the Fledgling Fund to use Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy to develop and recruit leadership within the intellectual disability community.
Check out the lastest issue of Filmmaker magazine for news about New Day Films!
The FilmForum at Montclair State University in New Jersey will present a program that focuses in part on the origins of New Day. A New Day classic, Growing Up Female will be shown to a class of film students as well as the general public. If you are in the area, we’d love to have you there!
Alice Elliott and Diana Braun are having a fantastic time in Uzbekistan! They have been screening their film, Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy to many different audiences are getting a very positive response. Follow along with their trip at www.uzbekadventure.wordpress.com.
This weekend marks the fourth annual Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. A special program at 2:00 p.m. Saturday celebrates the importance of social activist documentary films over the past four decades. Award-winning filmmaker Jim Klein will screen his ground-breaking 1976 film “Union Maids,” followed by clips from other important documentaries over the past 40 years and will lead a discussion on the role and the impact of social issue documentaries.
Tickets may be purchased at Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 6780 Depot Street in Sebastopol, or call 829-4797.
http://www.sebastopolfilmfestival.org/
New Day at Sebastopol Film Festival
Saturday, March 19, 2:00PM
Union Maids
by Julia Reichert, Jim Klein, Miles Mogulescu
Discussion with Klein
USA | 1976 | 50 min
Saturday, March 19, 4:30PM
Wo Ai Ni Mommy (I Love You, Mommy)
by Stephanie Wang-Breal
USA | 2009 | 76 min
Saturday, March 19, 7:00PM
The Most Distant Placesby Michael SeelyDiscussion with SeelyEcuador and USA
2010 | 32 min
Sin País (Without Country)
by Theo Rigby
Guatemala and USA
2010 | 19 min
Saturday, March 19, 7:00PM
I’m Just Anneke
by Jonathan Skurnik
Canada and USA
2010 | 11 min
Out In The Silence
Buy tickets to Out In The Silence to see Anneke.
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