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DER Podcast: Lalita Krishna on MALLAMALL
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DER Podcast: Margaret Mead Filmmaker Awardee Lalita Krishna on MALLAMALL

Director and Producer, Lalita Krishna, received an Honorable Mention Award at this year’s Margaret Mead Film Festival for her film, Mallamall. While the closing night party carried on upstairs, Lalita and I snuck down to the echo-y 77th Street lobby of the American Museum of Natural History to talk about the film.

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DER Podcast: Willem Timmers on FRAMING THE OTHER
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DER Podcast: Filmmaker Willem Timmers on FRAMING THE OTHER

A couple of days after Framing the Other screened at the Margaret Mead Film Festival — alongside Cannibal Tours, one of the inspirations for the film — the film’s director, Willem Timmers, and I took a walk on New York City’s Highline.

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Free Film Screening: A Life Without Words – Thursday, December 5th

DER’s Fall Film Series comes to a close on December 5th with the intimate and aesthetically stunning documentary, A Life Without Words.

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DER’s ED on What Makes a Winning Pitch

At this year’s Points North Forum of the Camden International Film Festival, my fellow panelists and I decided the prize for best pitch would go to the film with the combination of best pitch and best project.

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DER fall film series: Fambul Tok – Thursday, 10-24

This fall, DER is proudly partnering with Emerson College and the United Nations Association of Greater Boston to bring you a multi-cultural film series!

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DER Podcast: Naomi Levari on AMEER GOT HIS GUN
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DER Podcast: Director Naomi Levari talks AMEER GOT HIS GUN

We are happy to announce the first screening in DER’s 2013 Fall Film Series was a great success! On September 19th, Ameer Got His Gun was shown at Emerson College’s Bright Family Screening Room, and was followed by a thought-provoking Q and A with the film’s director, Naomi Levari.

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