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April 2008

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news in brief
Industry News
4/08
The Coolidge Award goes to British producer Jeremy Thomas; the
Roving Eye Documentary Film Festival screens at locations
throughout Rhode Island; a new television show to feature work
by and about Maine residents; and more...
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q & a
Kibitzing with Kate
Kate Feiffer’s documentary, Matzo & Mistletoe, examines what it means to
be a secular Jew in contemporary America. It screens this month at the
Maine Jewish Film Festival.
The Boston Twelve

From
Twelve |
Twelve directors help each other make 12 (loosely connected) shorts in 12 months. The resulting feature premieres this month at
the Independent Film Festival of Boston.
profile
The Untimely Death of a Superstar Hermit After a traumatic life, Robert E. Harrill moved to the beach of North Carolina
with just the clothes on his back. A documentary about his rise to tourist
stardom and his mysterious death, The Fort Fisher Hermit: the Life & Death of
Robert E. Harrill, is coming soon to Springfield’s WGBY.
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watch it...
Take the Fort Fisher walk
here.
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industry
Questioning Film Tax Credits
Rhode Island threatens to cap film production tax credits. Questions
about the benefits arise in MA and CT.
report
48 Hours: Time Enough to Make a Film
Publisher Michele Meek blogs from the 48 Hour Film Project Boston with live
reports coming to NewEnglandFilm.com April 4-6. Also see the
conclusion piece.
best of... from our
archives
How to be a... Master Editor
Three-time Oscar winner Thelma Schoonmaker, shares tricks of the trade, how to break into "the business" and what it's really like to work with Marty.
Distributing Your Short Film in the Global Marketplace
Short film experts with international savvy reveal how to get your shorts an
audience and a paycheck.
Delivering Video on the Web
Part I and
Part II
In this two-part series, filmmaker and media technologist David Tamés
unravels web media distribution and viewing for those of us who need a
translator.
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