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Producers,

We welcome you to participate in this OVEE screening and presentation.

When: April 25^th at 4 pm pacific time

Where: https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/9v3sv 

In this highly entertaining and informative presentation, Mr. Audette will screen clips from Frontline's "The Choice" episode to demonstrate the journalistic and storytelling methods that Frontline uses to approach an…

Good news! I'm a finalist for Tribeca Film Institute's Heineken Affinity Award. But, in order to actually win the award I need your help. The winner is the filmmaker with the most votes. So, please vote for me. You can vote once a day until March 31, 2013. To vote, go to http://bit.ly/YjW09D. There you can learn more about the award and my past, current and future projects. The filmmaker with the most votes wins!  Thank you so much for your support.

Thrilled to announce that Big Joy, The Adventures of James Broughton, will premier at SXSW this weekend, and then will head to Tribeca in April!

This is the film I workshopped at the Producer's Workshop way back in 2009. My time at the workshop had a big impact on this film. 

Here's a clip that posted on IndieWire today:

http://tinyurl.com/b53ny4o

Thanks again to all the workshoppers who helped move the…

Laurens Grant screens her film Jesse Owens in Honolulu on Sat. Feb. 16 at 1pm and 7:30pm at the 2nd Annual African American and Pan African Film Festival at the Doris Duke Theater at the Honolulu museum. For info & tix: http://bit.ly/Wo4jDb

http://beyondthebox.org/a-very-merry-ddf-announcement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-very-merry-ddf-announcement

PBS SoCaL was at the WESTDOC conference on September 11th in Culver City. Brenda Brkusic, Executive Producer…

Oh sure, the Olympics start in 5 days, but the PARALYMPICS start in 36 days.  MEDAL QUEST continues to follow these amazing and inspirational athletes in their final weeks of preparations -- please share our videos and stories with your friends and fans! http://www.pbs.org/medalquest

We just found out that Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy got scheduled in the New Filmmakers series in NYC for this week!   Come on out this Thursday.  Beer at 8:30.  Movie at 9p.  spread the word.

Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy  95 mins

Thursday, July 5, 2012 at 9pm

New Filmmaker Series

Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Ave (at 2nd st)

Beer at 8:30p

Back Story:

Two Brooklyn filmmakers lived at…

My latest documentary called "The Graduation Gateway" is now online at my station's website.   It is about the importance of graduating high school when trying to find a job and the efforts being made to make sure all Florida Students are career ready.  I hope you'll all check it out. It's 26:46.  I'd love to know what you all think.

The Graduation Gateway…

Filmmaker friends in L.A., you might be interested in this event. I am speaking on the panel. Hope to see you there! http://doc-u-may-2012.eventbrite.com/

Filmmakers, you might be interested in this event. I am speaking on the panel. Hope to see you there!

 http://doc-u-may-2012.eventbrite.com/

I'm happy to share some great new with everyone.

Last week, I joined the PBS station in Seattle. I'm a Development & On-Air Fundraising Producer at KCTS. If you are a development producer, I'd love to hear from you and share ideas.

Hello, fellow fellows.  Great News.  Today I started a new job.  I'm now working at the Sundance Institute.  I'm the Producer, Creative Partnerships for the Institute's Documentary Film Program .  In this position I'll manage and implement special documentary initiatives launched  with key organizations.  Wish me luck as I transition into this new job AND bring "Cesar's Last Fast "to rough cut in September!

this sounds like a great opportunity - please share with your friends and colleagues

Hello Fellow PBS/CPB Lab Producers.  Check out this nice write up about my film, Cesar's Last Fast.  It's very flattering:  

http://chicanafromchicago.com/2012/03/31/cesar-chavez-todavia-se-puede/

I had a great time last night talking about "Producing for PBS" with Kathy Lo at the DocuLink event in Los Angeles.  Thanks to Sally Rubin for organizing the event!

DOCULINK is a community for documentary filmmakers who share information, leads, ideas, and a commitment to support each other's growth as nonfiction filmmakers. The DOCULINK community consists of…

Filmmakers S. Leo Chiang (A Village Called Versailles) and Johnny Symons (Daddy & Papa, Ask Not), along with co-producers Eva Moss and Brittney Shepherd, were awarded a $5,000 research and development award at the …

Call For Entries is Open

My new project, "MEDAL QUEST: American Athletes and the Paralympic Games," is live at pbs.org/wgbh/medal-quest,and on Facebook and Twitter. 

This is the very first day so there are still a few glitches, but early visitors are great!  Please come share the stories of these amazing athletes as they prepare for the London Games, "like us" on FB, link and re-post, comment and enjoy.  We'll have new videos and posts every day or so, so come back often and join the…