The Nuances of Film Editing
The word “edit” has a bad reputation. To lay folk, the word brings to mind overindulgence, censorship, and the property…
Charlie Sweitzer
Charlie Sweitzer is a New York-based writer.
Courting cash
Lots of things pile up after a shoot. For Steve Gentile, producer of Loaded Gun: Life, Death, and Dickinson, the…
Two Steps Back
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to loosen media ownership laws, allowing one company to own television stations that reach…
“EGG” Expands
Even though no new episodes will be produced past the current season, the production unit behind PBS’s "EGG": The Arts…
CPB Faces Possible Budget Cuts
President Bush’s proposed budgets for 2004 and 2005 will introduce deep cuts and radical changes for the Corporation for Public…
Guerrilla Girls Take On Film Industry Sexism
From our billboard last year we were invited on a few conservative radio talk shows, which really surprised us,” says…
FCC Changes Afoot?
What do a former president of the Screen Actors Guild, the host of a long-running Harlem public access show, vice…
Beth Harrington
It’s been said that every filmmaker secretly wants to be a rock star, and vice versa. Beth Harrington has been…
Screening No More
Earlier this year the Carnegie Museum announced it would close one of Pittsburgh’s oldest and most renowned screening series and…