Ferraro Blogs from Skoll World Forum

Gayle Ferraro — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:02:03 +0000

Check out a recent series of posts by Gayle Ferraro who blogged for Filmmaker magazine from the 2009 Skoll World Forum. Ferraro’s work in progress, To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America (WT), recently received a Stories of Change grant.

Since I am in the final stages of production and into post on a feature doc (To Catch a Dollar –WT) portraying 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Grameen Bank Founder and the patron saint of all social entrepreneurs (according to Patricia Finneran Sr. Consultant for Sundance Institute) Dr. Muhammad Yunus AND the film project is a recipient of a generous grant from the Skoll Foundation (Sundance/Skoll Stories of Change) – one could say that it is quite fitting that I participate in this event. Add to that I briefly attended Oxford ten years ago (before switching up for Harvard) and have some familiarity with the University and surrounds so it is an experience I feel very comfortable and engaged in as I arrive on site. Read the entire Day 1 post>>

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DocSource launches

Agnes Varnum — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:04:17 +0000

The DFP’s new website, DocSource, has launched at SFF ’08 with some of the features and activities that we will be building on over the coming year. Ultimately we envision the site as a robust and unique service to our many grantees (over 425 films and 376 filmmakers), their stakeholders, and human rights workers globally.

Why is it time for DocSource? I believe in part it is because I see a new field of human rights documentary emerging, fueled by the instincts and inspiration of filmmakers like the DFP grantees you will engage with on the web site, the passion and commitment of those working across many fields for a more just and equitable world, and the imperative of so many critical issues coming into focus globally.

The power of each of these arenas is converging. Festivals are becoming convening zones for talking about issues, the Internet is allowing for new communication, organizing and distribution possibilities. Independent documentary filmmakers, so often driven by a will to change the world, are now bringing sophisticated storytelling and marketing techniques to bear on the critical issues of our day. The heat is on – quite literally — to educate, enlighten, inspire and motivate. We are the generations that must meet today’s challenges head-on. We have the tools to do it and the skills bring these stories to the world, one viewer at a time if that’s what it takes.

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