Video Essay – Images of Global Militancy
Maple Razsa, director of DER’s Bastards of Utopia, reflects on the place of images of violence within activist milieus in his video essay
Read More
DER Receives Grant from Massachusetts Cultural Council
This fall, the Board of the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) approved grants totaling close to $8 million for nonprofit cultural organizations, local cultural councils, and education programs across the Commonwealth.
Read More
HSFA Reflects on the Work of Jerome Mintz
A new blogpost from the Smithsonian’s Human Studies Film Archives details how the re-discovery of one anthropologist’s films has led to a cultural resurgence in post-Franco Spain.
Read More
George C. Stoney, filmmaker (1916 – 2012)
DER was saddened to learn of the passing of George Stoney last week at his home. As a documentary filmmaker, activist, and educator, George’s films helped make visible the lives of many individuals who would have otherwise remained unseen.
Read More
Oma Tsamxao joins San delegation at the United Nations
Oma (Leon) Tsamxao — grandson of Toma Tsamxao, whose extended family is at the center of John Marshall’s Kalahari films (including A Kalahari Family, The Hunters, and others) — was recently at the United Nations to participate in the 11th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII).
Read More
LEF Moving Image Fund Names Spring 2012 Grantees
Congratulations to the LEF Moving Image Fund Spring 2012 grantees! Winning projects LEVIATHAN and EXIT ZERO are fiscally sponsored by DER.
Read More