| Welcome to ISSUES IN DOCUMENTARY (57061) 2009 GUEST LECTURE : Mitzi Goldman: documentary filmmaker, (Looking Glass Films & Executive Director, Documentary Australia Foundation) will join us Wed 12th August: Week 3 Seminar - Documentary Production in Australia (& international funding and distribution). Room 327 at 6pm - 7.30pm; after a short break I will continue the class at approximately 7.45pm- 9pm.
Mitzi's bio: http://www.hotdocs.ca/index.php/popup/delegate/mitzi_goldman Executive Director, Documentary Australia Foundation http://www.documentaryaustralia.com.au/da/ Issues in Documentary facebook link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sydney-Australia/Issues-in-Documentary/225120905045?v=wall&viewas=648629386 Other relevant documents are now loaded in to UTS online Subject Documents. 1. Seminar 1 ppt notes 2. Weekly Themes and Core Readings 2009 - with active urls to the ereadings. Please note I am still in a process of working on updating 57061 UTS online - some urls & readings are out of date..... The documentary film financing landscape is constantly changing: see the Australian Government's new screen agency: http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/ For a great site on the history of documentary - with links to the present online environment of documentary. See the link below and read this article for Seminar 1. It is a good, survey style intro to the terrain of documentary: http://media.rmit.edu.au/students/projects/wiki/index.php/Interactive_Online_Documentary The web is exploding with on line documentary sites and data bases. See this article on Youtube for a thoughtful discussion of a way of looking at its historical context in the tradition of documentary: http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=109 Cinema of Attractions ie Thriller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMnk7lh9M3o UTS LIBRARY - and Support for Assignments The University Library: http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/ has the resources you need for your assignments. Some items such as electronic journals, databases and e-reserve require a login and password in order to be accessed from your home or office. Information and instructions for off-campus access are available at : http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/services/off_campus 1. Discover your library - Computer availability, orientation, tours, workshops, online tutorials: http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/students/discover-your-library 2. Research and Essay Writing: http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/information/writing_skills 3. Finding books, readings and films: Closed reserve http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/finding/collections/reserve_collection ON CAMPUS/ON LINE SUPPORT FOR ESSAY WRITING AND RESEARCH : The UTS: BELL site : http://www.bell.uts.edu.au/ : The Harvard System is recommended for referencing of assignments. Help with your study (writing, seminar presentation or study skills) contact the ELSSA Centre: http://www.uts.edu.au/div/elssa/ Level 18, Tower Building, telephone 9514-2327 . See you Wednesday 6pm Room 327 Bonne Marche, cheers Jeni Thornley
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 | some great on line film journals http://www.offscreen.com/ film festivals, retrospectives, film forums How documentary texts are read: http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/documentary_truth.html http://www.rouge.com.au/ Rouge, edited by Adrian Martin, is a simple, user-friendly online film journal http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/ http://www.mastersofcinema.org/ Art house DVD releases across all DVD regions. http://www.realtimearts.net/ Inside Film Magazine : http://www.if.com.au http://www.film-philosophy.com/ | Posted by: Jennifer Thornley |
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| some relevant documentary and media sites Documentary Blogs by documentary filmmakers, critics, and filmgoers. http://documentaries.about.com/od/blogs/Documentary_Blogs.htm About.com: http://worldfilm.about.com/od/documentaries/Documentaries.htm ABC's Future Tense (on media and change): http://www.abc.net.au/rn/futuretense/ | Posted by: Jennifer Thornley |
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| Errol Morris has a NY Times blog and great web site Errol Morris is a documentary filmmaker whose movie The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for best documentary feature in 2004. He also directed Gates of Heaven, The Thin Blue Line, Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control and A Brief History of Time, among other films. His new film, "Standard Operating Procedure," will be released next year. A companion book, co-written with Philip Gourevitch, will also appear in 2008. http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/ http://www.errolmorris.com/ Interview with Errol Morris in Mumbai by Homi Bhaba http://www.errolmorris.com/content/lecture/theantipost.html | Posted by: Jennifer Thornley |
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| EngageMedia is a video sharing site about social justice and environmental issues in the Asia Pacific http://www.engagemedia.org/ Facebook application that allows you share the latest videos on EngageMedia with your friends on your Facebook profile. If you are a Facebook user go here to install the application: http://apps.facebook.com/emlatest As a small caveat: EngageMedia thinks that 'Facebook can be rather problematic (privacy, intelligence gathering, corporate control etc.) but we also think it's a good opportunity for outreach and for distributing videos from our community more widely. For one interesting critique of Facebook see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook | Posted by: Jennifer Thornley |
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| Resources, links for documentary digital storytelling http://www.digitales.us/resources/documentary.php | Posted by: Jennifer Thornley |
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| ITVS: Sell your documentary to Public Broadcasters in USA http://www.itvs.org/about/ ITVS funds, distributes and promotes new programs produced by independent producers primarily for public television. ITVS is looking for proposals that increase diversity on public television and present a range of subjects, viewpoints and forms that complement and challenge existing public television offerings. http://www.itvs.org/producers/international_apply.html INTERNATIONAL CALL 2009 REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS http://www.itvs.org/producers/international_apply.html WRITING A BETTER ITVS TREATMENT http://www.itvs.org/producers/treatment.html | Posted by: Jennifer Thornley |
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| Australia's first 24-hour Indigenous television service http://nitv.org.au/ The Government-funded National Indigenous TV (NITV) broadcasts to more than 200,000 people across Northern Australia, Queensland, and South Australia. | Posted by: Jennifer Thornley |
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| Exposed: a journal of our blurring culture Exposed is a journal that publishes essays about the blurring of the boundaries between the real and the fake in our culture. http://www.realityblurred.com/exposed/contact/ | Posted by: Jennifer Thornley |
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| stream interesting and provocative documentary films for free http://www.freedocumentaries.org/index.php
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| Flaherty Documentary Film Seminar The Flaherty is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the proposition that independent media can illuminate the human spirit. Its mission is to foster exploration, dialogue, and introspection about the art and craft of all forms of the moving image. http://www.flahertyseminar.org | Posted by: Jennifer Thornley |
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| Autobiography Seminar Jonathon Caouette's documentary Tarnation (2004) is about his turbulent childhood in Houston. The internet is now exploding with autobiography/mockdocs: performative works. In subject documents Autobiography I listed one last year: Lonelygirl 15, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15 Another one, is overnight YouTube sensation, Chris Crocker, the latest to be inducted into the world of reality TV. his performance on YouTube has been linked to Jonathon Caouette in Tarnation http://www.youtube.com/itschriscrocker http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/britney-drama-queen-inks-tv-deal/2007/09/20/1189881661178.html My 1978 autobiographical film, Maidens, was put on the Australian screen on line site in 2007 ; Youtube clips and internet release created some ethical issues for me, which had to be resolved before I could grant permission to the site's producers. http://australianscreen.com.au/titles/maidens/ | Posted by: Jennifer Thornley |
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| join the Edna mailing list - http://emergingdoco.com.au/edna/ When you register, check out useful on line links at Resources sources: on line doco | Posted by: Jennifer Thornley |
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| The top 25 documentaries of all time (?!) Discussion blog | Posted by: Jennifer Thornley |
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