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Restrepo – Documentary film of the Week

Posted in Documentary, tagged , on December 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

A feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, “Restrepo,” named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: [...]

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The Science of Blogging – Post Event

Posted in Blogging on December 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

As expected, The Science of Blogging was a great event and lived up to its “science” expectation.  The discussion was loaded with insights and implications, all supported with data. Just the kind of rational thought process that more presenters (analysts, researcher,etc.) need to include in their work. Presentation was filled with a lot of takes, [...]

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Skid Row – Documentary Film of the Week

Posted in Documentary, tagged , , , , on December 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

  SYNOPSIS: A documentary tracing Fugee’s celebrity rap star Prakazrel ‘Pras’ Michel’s experience living homeless on the streets of LA’s notorious Skid Row. Filmed by undercover crews and hidden cameras Pras, with no money in his pockets, experiences first hand the violent crime, hard drugs, discomfort and hunger of homelessness, putting a face and giving [...]

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Cinematic Storytelling – Must Read for the Social Filmmaker

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

  Social filmmaking is fundamentally about storytelling in a declarative documentary type genre. Understanding the various communication techniques that allows one to concisely capture some element(s) of a cultural narrative in a visually cinematic style, becomes a life long skill acquisition for the filmmaker. For example, the application of Aristotle’s three act structure for dramatic [...]

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Bomb IT – Documentary Film of the Week

Posted in Documentary, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

  Bomb IT: An raw and rough documentary from award-winning director Jon Reiss investigating the most subversive and controversial art form currently shaping international youth culture: graffiti. Through interviews and guerilla footage of graffiti writers in action on 5 continents, BOMB IT tells the story of graffiti from its origins in prehistoric cave paintings thru [...]

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The Science of Blogging

Posted in Blogging, Social Filmmaking, Tools, tagged on December 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

  Blogging is an important part of the social filmmaking process. Without it, the ability to tell stories to other communities would be severely hampered. Many people, however, question the “science” behind the process and are looking for just that one piece of data to get them going. Well, I think it is here. I [...]

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Exit Through The Gift Shop – Documentary Film of the Week

Posted in Documentary, tagged , , , on December 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Exit Through The Gift Shop: The first film by renowned graffiti artist Banksy, became the hottest ticket at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival where it made its world debut. Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post—hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the [...]

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