Monday Memo: WNET Pulls Doc Showcases from Monday Nights
This week Dru Sefton at Current.org reported that New York’s PBS station, WNET, planned to pull both POV and Independent Lens from its lineup in January. At Realscreen, Manori Ravindran also covered...
View ArticleMonday Memo: WNET Reinstates Monday Night Doc Shows
This week New York City PBS station WNET announced that it would reinstate the two doc programs POV and Independent Lens to their Monday time slots after earlier announcing that they would be removed....
View ArticleMonday Memo: WNET Gets Blowback From Filmmakers, Sundance Coverage Continues...
It seems that WNET’s plan to sweep documentary programming aside has been met with a litany of outrage from the filmmakers who’ve long enjoyed the support that PBS’s POV and Independent Lens have lent...
View ArticleMonday Memo: A Return – Lumière Exhibition, the Cinema of Evidence, Full...
I hate to brag, but the last few weeks have been quite lovely, with getting married to my partner in life, Valerie Rettberg-Smith, and our subsequent honeymoon to Paris and Amsterdam and all. That...
View ArticleMonday Memo: PBS Decides to Keep Docs in Primetime, Doug Block’s D-Word Goes 3.0
This past week, doc filmmakers have been accorded quite lovely news on various fronts. After much public debate and industry outcry over whether or not INDEPENDENT LENS or POV would continue to feature...
View ArticleMonday Memo: THE LOOK OF SILENCE Wins Best Doc At Spirit Awards, Snubbed at...
Finally, the glitz and glam of award season has settled and despite the avalanche of awards thrown at the feet of Joshua Oppenheimer for his second monolithic work of non-fiction in two years – Cinema...
View ArticleMonday Memo: POV’s 30th Season Announced
After a week away to take care of unexpected life happenings, the memo is back! First up PBS’s announcement of the lineup for the 30th season of POV, featuring the likes of CAMERAPERSON, DO NOT RESIST,...
View ArticleMonday Memo: AFI DOCS Announces 2017 Lineup, STF Alum GET ME ROGER STONE...
A week has passed since the curtains closed on Hot Docs 2017, but coverage of the festival continues to roll in. Both Anthony Kaufman and Anne Thompson reported on the twenty projects that were...
View ArticleMonday Memo: Nevins to Leave HBO After Nearly 40 Years
After a week off, I’ve returned to a short stack of doc news that packed quite a punch over the last few days. Most notably, Sheila Nevins, the 78-year-old president of HBO Documentary Films, has...
View ArticleMonday Memo: POV Unveils 31st Season
Whenever PBS’s long running documentary series POV announces its annual lineup, just about everything has to take a back seat (even Cannes). Its 31st season kicks off this Wednesday with a special...
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