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Join me for Making Media Now 2013 in Boston, May 3, 2013
Written by David Tames on April 24, 2013
Filed Under Events & Screenings, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, New Media

I hope you’ll join me this year on Friday, May 3rd at Massachusetts College of Art and Design for Making Media Now 2013, the annual must-attend conference for documentary media makers presented by Filmmakers Collaborative. I’m...  Continue Reading...

Making Media Now 2012: Thriving in a Changing Landscape
Written by David Tames on May 1, 2012
Filed Under Business, Events & Screenings, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, New Media

The Making Media Now conference organized by Filmmakers Collaborative has become the annual must-attend event for New England media makers. This year the event will mark Filmmaker’s Collaborative’s 25th anniversary and...  Continue Reading...

Documentary marathon at 2012 Independent Film Festival of Boston
Written by David Tames on April 26, 2012
Filed Under Documentary, Events & Screenings, Film Festivals, Filmmakers

Here’s my plan for a Sunday documentary marathon at the 2012 Independent Film Festival of Boston. All of the films below screen at the Somerville Theatre on Sunday, April 29, 2012. If you come to see one or more of these films,...  Continue Reading...

Whitney Dow: When the Drum is Beating
Written by David Tames on November 30, 2011
Filed Under Documentary, Featured, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, Films, Interviews

I had the pleasure of seeing When the Drum is Beating at the New Hampshire Film Festival (NHFF) recently. The documentary, directed by Whitney Dow, weaves together the history of Haiti with the story of Orchestre Septentrional, Haiti’s...  Continue Reading...

Chris Paine: Revenge of the Electric Car
Written by David Tames on November 3, 2011
Filed Under Featured, Filmmakers, Films, Interviews

Chris Paine, best known as the director of Who Killed the Electric Car?, followed the rise and fall of General Motors EV-1, of which he was a passionate owner. He recently completed a new film, Revenge of the Electric Car, now going...  Continue Reading...

Distribution U. crash course on Crowd Funding, Audience Building & Distribution
Written by David Tames on October 30, 2010
Filed Under Business, Distribution, Events & Screenings, Filmmakers, Filmmaking

Distribution U. looks like a wonderful event for independent filmmakers who are trying to figure out the best way to take advantage of the changing distribution landscape. This will be a one-day crash course on the New Rules of Crowd...  Continue Reading...

Flying takes documentary form to new heights
Written by David Tames on August 27, 2009
Filed Under Documentary, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, Films, Sticky

Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman is an amazing six-hour, six-part, documentary of epic proportions by Jennifer Fox in which we follow the filmmaker as she travels around the world asking her women friends how they construct and...  Continue Reading...

DIY Days Boston, October 4, 2008 (conference notes)
Written by David Tames on October 4, 2008
Filed Under Business, Events & Screenings, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, The Media

The DIY Days Boston conference was held at MassArt on October 4, 2008. The conference drew a full-house of both seasoned and emerging filmmakers and media artists who came to learn about online tools, techniques, and strategies for...  Continue Reading...

Inventing the Movies
Written by David Tames on July 31, 2008
Filed Under Books, Business, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, Interviews, Media Technology, Television, The Media

Some of the things I love about summer are weekend trips to the Berkshires, taking time off for a vacation, and all that means more time available to read books. On my summer reading stack this year was an advance copy of Inventing...  Continue Reading...

Media Fabrics for Media Makers Symposium at MIT Friday, June 20, 2008
Written by David Tames on June 13, 2008
Filed Under Art, Documentary, Events & Screenings, Filmmakers, New Media

A celebration of Glorianna Davenport’s three decade effort at MIT focused on documentary storytelling and technology, “Media Fabrics for Media Makers: Realizing an Expressive Landscape for Digital Dialogues” is a...  Continue Reading...

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