In this 1996 interview, Robert Gardner and Peter Matthiessen discuss their 1961 trip to New Guinea, which resulted in Mr. Gardner’s film “Dead Birds” and Mr. Matthiessen’s book “Under the Mountain Wall.”
Interview filmed by Richard P. Rogers and Robert Fulton. Originally posted by New York Times, July 14th 2014.
In October 2024, DER Executive Director Alice Apley and Technical and Creative Director Frank Aveni had the honor of traveling to southern Africa as part of a film repatriation initiative.
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In collaboration with the Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) at UC Berkeley and 25 participating federally funded centers for area studies at universities across the country, DER launched an online film program for K-12 teachers in 2023 with the dual goals of providing teachers with resources and tools to promote film literacy and introducing K-12 resource centers and teachers to the DER catalog.
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