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Ran into Ondi Timoner (Dig!, We Live in Public) at Tribeca last week, where she was meeting about her new fiction feature in the works. And she’s hosting a weekly talk show on documentaries called Bring Your Own Doc, where she talks to fellow filmmakers. Watch it for free on youtube.

Full Frame fêtes family films, former fest favorite “51 Birch Street” follows

Tomorrow marks the beginning of this year’s Full Frame Festival, one of our favorite fests, and this year we’re having a nice case of déjà vu, as our “51 Birch Street“, which originally played at the Festival in 2006, is back again. Filmmaker Ross McElwee has curated a program of family-themed films for the festival, [...]

If you try to call us…

…and the sound quality leaves, shall we say, something to be desired – please bear with us; it seems our phone company is striving for abstract expressionism in our building’s switch box right now.

Keeping quiet another day

We’ve been bottling up news since the new year, but it will all have to wait another  day. Today we’re joining our host Wordpress and other sites for the Internet Blackout. An easy way to sign the petition is to go to google.com, click on the censorship banner and it leads you to one of the [...]

Happy 2012!

The HWM’s office is closed this week, but we’ll be back in swing on the 2nd. Wishing you all a great year ahead…

“Corporations Are People, my friend.”

We thought we might just skip past last week’s Mitt Romney statement.  We knew what he meant- corporations have the rights of people,  a topic we talk about in our film “This Land“. But then when he said, “Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. Where do you think it goes?”- well, we had to say [...]

Sundance, perchance?

It’s that time of year again when masses of people who normally frown upon snow and ice strap on their snowboots and don their fluffy winter hats to head to that mythical sub-arctic wonderland known as Park City. We have several friends making the trip, like Doug Block, who is Executive Producer on Jon Foy’s [...]

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