IDFA 2011 – In Touch with the “Planet of Snail”
For two years South Korean director Seung-Jun Yi and his assistant director took a two-hour subway ride to the home…
Randi Cecchine
Randi Cecchine is an independent documentary shooter/editor/producer, freelancer, and sometime educator living in New York. She has a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA in Media Arts Production from The College of Staten Island. She is currently self distributing her DVD Scrambled: A Journey Through Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, which explores a complicated but common women’s health condition through personal narrative and interviews with experts from diverse fields. She is raising funds to complete the editing of a feature documentary about a radical political performance troupe the Missile Dick Chicks.
Greater Filmmaker Responsibility in the New Documentary Paradigms
Anyone who cares about documentary filmmaking wants to know: In the current post-financial crisis, insecure-industry environment, how can filmmakers fund…
Has the Drive to Fund “Social Issue” Docs Affected Their Form?
Over the past few years, I’ve had the pleasure of attending a number of film festivals and conferences, some with…
Borat’s Aftermath: A Romanian Town Seeks Damages
I had the pleasure of seeing Carmen Meets Borat at the International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul, and was deeply…
The Future of Public Media: Talking with Pat Aufderheide
At SILVERDOCS 2008, writer Randi Cecchine talks with Pat Aufderheide, founder and director of the Center for Social Media at…