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Michael Lumpkin named new E.D. of International Documentary Association
Press release: "Independent film veteran Michael Lumpkin has been chosen by the Board of Directors of the International Documentary Association to lead the organization as its new Executive Director. Lumpkin... more
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Sun shines on the wardrobe shed during the Civic Center-based filming of Milk in San Francisco this past year. After filling the Castro Theatre for the month, the film is... more
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What Crisis? Fundraising during an economic meltdown
When the going gets tough, the tough supposedly get going. The real question is, where exactly do they go? Well, if they are indie filmmakers looking to raise money for... more

Gender queries: "Straightlaced," Bay Area filmmaker Debra Chasnoff's new doc on high schoolers, world premieres at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Jan. 14.
Debra Chasnoff goes back to school with "Straightlaced"
By Judy Stone
In eighth grade, Debra Chasnoff was already a tall, attractive brunette with beautiful blue eyes, who yearned to be noticed by a boy named Sammy but he didn’t have eyes for her. Although she had a crush on him, what he saw and wrote in the class yearbook was "To the girl who gets As in French class. I don’t know how or why."
Now a 51-year old prize-winning filmmaker and the mother of two boys, 14 and 20, Chasnoff laughed as she recalled being "devastated" by Sammy’s comment. "The thing he had noticed about me was that I was really smart and not that I was someone appealing to him. I felt a lot of pressure because I was smarter than you were supposed to be if you were a girl."
topics: bay area, directors, documentary film, film history, gay lesbian cinema, oscars, political film
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The Year in Film 2008: Oscar odds
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Two thousand eight was the year Hollywood wanted to woo women badly. Two of the year’s biggest blockbusters, Sex and the City: The Movie and Mamma... more
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The Year in Film, 2008: Ideas, experiences, innovations
There’s certainly no shortage of ideas about the films and film trends of 2008 from the select crew of Bay Area filmmakers, critics and industry pros... more
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The Year in Film, 2008: Top unreleased films
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