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Making Documentaries in the Digital Age: A Chat With "Autumn Gem" Co-Producers
At the seventh D: All Things Digital conference, besides interviewing a lot of tech and media muckety-mucks, the All Things Digital staff and friends also got a terrific screening of a new...
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Here's Why McKinsey's Coming to Condé Nast: The Coming Black September
Here’s why Condé Nast is bringing in McKinsey & Co. for an emergency overhaul: The publisher’s lousy year isn’t getting any better. New numbers Condé released today show that its September issues...
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Vital Video–The National Parks: America's Best Idea
How much should you ponder this amazing video from an upcoming new documentary series by Ken Burns–titled “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea”–on America’s national parks system? Muchly much, as...
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Condé's Cuts Come to Vogue
As expected, Condé Nast executives are swinging the layoff ax around the fabled magazine publisher. Today’s cuts are at Vogue, where I’m told at least six people have been let go from one of the...
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Education Documentary Featuring Bill Gates Gets First Distribution Deal at...
Like BoomTown, Bill Gates was at the Sundance Film Festival this weekend–not just to sample some of the fare at the well-known independent film festival, held annually in Park City, Utah, but also to...
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On Friday, BoomTown was back at the Sundance Film Festival for the fifth time for my annual techie panel at the famous independent film confab. This year, we opened the New Frontier on Main series with...
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PBS's "Frontline" Considers the "Digital Nation"–A Lot of Handwringing Over...
Earlier this week, the reliably erudite PBS public affairs program, “Frontline,” aired a documentary called “Digital Nation,” which I caught on television in one of the rare moments I find myself...
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Web Video You'll Want to Watch: Five "Digital Ellie" Finalists
Just like everything else on the Web, it’s exceptionally easy to make and distribute video. But making a good one? That’s one of the hardest tasks you can take on. If you don’t believe me, see for...
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"Catfish": The Other Facebook Movie Speaks Real Truths About the Social...
Last night, BoomTown attended a press screening of a new film, due out this fall, in which Facebook plays a big role. No, not that movie. Instead of a semi-fictional film–that would be “The Social...
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Viral Video: "I Want Your Money"
In the interests of political fairness, here is a trailer for a documentary coming out in mid-October that takes aim at President Barack Obama’s economic policies. Titled “I Want Your Money,” the...
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The "Catfish"–A.K.A. the Other Facebook Movie–Dudes Speak!
Last night, BoomTown got to grill some “Catfish”–as in the three young hipsters responsible for the new documentary about a twisted online romance on Facebook. That was for a Q&A after a screening...
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A Hollywood Ending? The Timing of Zuckerberg's $100 Million Donation to...
The question is: Which movie was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinking about when he decided recently to fork over $100 million to public schools in Newark, New Jersey? Was it a bid to spiff up his...
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Viral Video: "Waiting for Superman" Gets Taiwanesed
Failing schools in the U.S. is not a funny topic. But somehow the odd CGI animators over at Next Media Animation did a very good job with this take on the bracing documentary “Waiting for Superman,”...
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Oracle Sets Database Speed Record; Larry Ellison Disses HP
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is having a big day. On the day of the premiere of a high-profile Bloomberg TV documentary that promises to burnish his legend, he also got to brag that Oracle had retaken the...
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Viral Video: CNBC's "The Facebook Obsession" Features More Mark Z (Plus...
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is certainly in the midst of a media bonanza. Aside from all the heat over its recent investment whatever with Goldman Sachs, the young entrepreneur has...
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Park Chan-wook, one of South Korea’s best directors, gets lots of attention when he introduces a new movie. About 100 reporters showed up Monday morning for a screening of his latest work, a 30-minute...
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Exclusive: SnagFilms Snags $10 Million in Funding at $50 Million Valuation
SnagFilms, the online video distribution site for professional documentaries, has nabbed $10 million in funding from Comcast’s investment arm and New Enterprise Associates, and will also now be...
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Sit Back, Relax and Do Some Research: Qwiki Opens Information Visualizations...
Qwiki today will start letting the public into its site, which constructs narrated visualizations using photos, videos, maps and text for three million reference topics. The idea is that instead of...
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Viral Video: "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop" (at SXSW)
Conan O’Brien has been all over the South by Southwest festival this week, hawking a new documentary about his time wandering in the late-night talk television wilderness after he left “The Tonight...
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Ready for His Digital Close-Up: The NYT's Media Dude, David Carr, Talks About...
While I was in Los Angeles recently, I was invited to a private screening of a documentary about the New York Times called “Page One: Inside the New York Times.” The film, which debuted at the most...
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