April 2010
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CID Film Events
Conferences
CID Films: Award & News
Broadcast of "Some Kind Of Funny Porto Rican"
MPC Board of Directors
Call for Entries
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CID FILMS. FUND-RAISING EVENTS

THE PEACEMAKER
Friday, April 30th at 7:00 pm
The Plough & Stars
912 Massachusetts Avenue. Cambridge, MA
Please join Padraig O'Malley, director James Demo and actor John Savage for Hors d'oeuvres, open bar 7-9.
Entertainment by the band, Clash of Civilizations
Kindly RSVP to jdemo177@yahoo.com by April 29th



THE NORTH SHORE JAZZ PROJECT
Presents Danny Harrington & Friends
with John Baboian, Bruce Gertz, & Phil McGowan

For Jazz Week and a Tribute to Lennie Sogoloff
Sunday May 2, 2010
1:00 - 4:30 PM (ET)
Chianti Tuscan Restaurant
285 Cabot St. Beverly, MA     Purchase Tickets HERE
CONFERENCES
INPUT 2010
The international forum for media in the public interest, in Budapest May 7-12, 2010.

INPUT U.S. has travel grants to offer public tv media producers.  If you are interested, please email Amy Shumaker  at shumaker@scetv.org or call 803-737-3433. Please share with other station and independent producers living in the United States. Check out www.input-tv.org



MAKING YOUR MEDIA MATTER 2010

CENTER FOR SOCIAL MEDIA
Rescheduled for May 12, 2010


American University's Katzen Arts Center
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20016

Learn more about the conference
HERE

Making Your Media Matter
is a conference for established and aspiring filmmakers, non-profit communications leaders, funders and students looking to learn and share cutting-edge practices for making their media matter.
CID FILMS: AWARDS & NEWS
CONGRATULATIONS FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS!!

Michael Epstein - Murder On Beacon Hill
New Media Award - Boston Independent Film Festival.
MUSE Award - American Association of Museums for New England Aquarium mobile storytelling.

Tim McCarthy, director of Meth & Murder in P-Town
Best Doc Award - Boston International Film Festival.

CONGRATULATIONS RECENT GRANT RECIPIENTS!!

Nancy Kates - Regarding Susan Sontag
National Endowment for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Humanities Awards

Nancy Kelly + Kenji Yamamoto - Stories To Tell
National Endowment for the Arts Award

Andrea Torrice - The New Metropolis Community Outreach
Surdna Foundation

Vital Pictures - American Dilemma, Carnegie Corporation

Vaishali Sinha + Rebecca Haimowitz, Made In India
Chicken and Egg Pictures, Fledgling Fund

Newman's Own Foundation Awards
Mike Axinn - DooF
Claire Panke - Light Years
Tim Hotchner - Accelerating America

BROADCAST
RHODE ISLAND PBS PREMIERE WSBE-TV 36
Airs Saturday, May 1 at 7:00PM & Sunday, May 2 at 11:00PM
Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?: A Cape Verdean American Story (2006)
A documentary by filmmaker Claire Andrade-Watkins
Three generations of Cape Verdeans in Providence, Rhode Island were forcibly displaced by urban renewal in the l960s and l970s to make way for the fancy coffee shops, antique stores and elegantly restored houses that now fill the streets of Fox Point.

THE FOX POINT CAPE VERDIAN PROJECT
May l-9, 2010 - programs, events and activities.
Visit the website for a full schedule of events:  www.foxpointcapeverdeanproject.com
 

MPC ELECTS NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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The Massachusetts Production Coalition (MPC), the leading voice of the film and television community in the state, has announced a newly elected Board of Directors - including representatives from some of the most well-known production companies and other independent professionals in the Commonwealth.

View the Official Press Release for more information and a listing of the newly elected board.
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Vermont Bear Film Festival 2010
Program Director and CID Filmmaker, John Scagliottiis searching the globe for a variety of bear feature, documentary and short films for this year's festival. More info HERE

CID support:The Center for Independent Documentary is supported in part by grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and by the National Endowment for the Arts -Arts Recovery Funds.  CID is a founding member of the Massachusetts Production Coailtion.
Visit our website for more information