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Smile Boston Project joins slate of documentaries at Newburyport Documentary Festival
Written by David Tames on September 27, 2007
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A soundtrack for the movie of your mind
Written by David Tames on August 30, 2007
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Last year filmmaker Todd Verow asked Colin Owens to write a film score to run 84 minutes concurrent with an experimental film made from 10 second clips of mobile phone video. The result of this work is Hooks to the Left, Colin’s most emotional, complex, and provocative music to date. ...  Continue Reading...

Summertime gazpacho
Written by David Tames on July 2, 2007
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Summertime is gazpacho time. This cold soup is popular in Spain’s Andalusia during the summer and when Alice and I were there for our honeymoon, I gained an appreciation for it. The soup has its origins in ancient Andalusian cuisine as a mixture of stale bread, garlic, olive oil, salt,...  Continue Reading...

2007 Woods Hole Film Festival
Written by David Tames on June 27, 2007
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This week the Woods Hole Film Festival posted their festival schedule. Now in its 16th year, the festival opens with a screening of the remastered 1971 Documentary Classic, Blue Water, White Death, about the search for the elusive Great White Shark. Woods Hole is a wonderful festival with a...  Continue Reading...

2007 Plymouth Independent Film Festival
Written by David Tames on June 27, 2007
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The Plymouth Independent Film Festival announced today its film selection for the third annual film festival. Over forty films will be screened at the Plimoth Plantation beginning on Thursday July 19 at 4pm. Highlights include seventeen films as part of the Made in Mass screenings series: ...  Continue Reading...

Remembering John Marshall (trailer)
Written by David Tames on March 5, 2007
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Click to Play Here’s the new trailer I cut for our film, Remembering John Marshall, a short documentary that presents a brief portrait of John Kennedy Marshall, the late filmmaker and activist who began his career in the 1950s documenting the lives of the Ju/’hoansi...  Continue Reading...

Binta, Marshall, and Slim to screen at NIFF
Written by David Tames on November 9, 2006
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The 2006 Northampton Independent Film Festival will present a screening of three very special short films on Saturday, November 11th at 4:45pm in Stoddard Hall, Smith College inNorthampton, Massachusetts. The films are Binta Y La Gran Idea (Javier Fesser), Remembering John Marshall (yours truly...  Continue Reading...

New Documentaries at The Tank in NYC
Written by David Tames on October 9, 2006
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Remembering John Marshall will be part of a program of New Documentaries screening on Sunday, October 15 @ 8 P.M. at The Tank (279 Church Street, btw Franklin and White) in New York City. The program includes: Continue Reading…  Read More →

Havana – The New Art of Making Ruins
Written by David Tames on October 2, 2006
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I saw a documentary at the Rio International Film Festival last week that was not only beautiful and poetic, but also a strong argument for shooting “real” high definition with Zeiss DigiPrimes if I ever saw one. Continue Reading…  Read More →

Ten Documentary Films
Written by David Tames on August 27, 2006
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I was reading a post tonight on DVXuser that asked: What’s the best documentary you’ve ever seen? and I was inspired by the challenge and made a list of 10 documentary films to watch that are worthy of both viewing and analysis. I can’t begin to rank what I would consider...  Continue Reading...

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