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NAMAC at Arts Advocacy Day 2012

NAMAC's Executive Director, Jack Walsh, and Policy Strategist, Belinda Rawlins, came together from their respective west and east coast offices to attend Arts Advocacy Day 2012 in Washington, DC.

DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER LEE STOREY VICTORIOUS IN US TAX COURT

The International Documentary Association (IDA), along with Film Independent (FIND), National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP), Women Make Movies, National Alliance for Media Art and Culture (NAMAC) and the University Film and Video Association (UFVA), claimed victory after lending their names to an amicus brief filed last year on their behalf on a pro bono basis by entertainment attorney Michael C. Donaldson in support of the documentary film community in which it urged the United States Tax Court to recognize that documentary films are overwhelmingly undertaken in pursuit of profit.

Emergence

Blog Author: 

Arlene Goldbard

There's a quote from Gandhi I love: "To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages." Read literally, it is humane and compassionate and deeply true. But I also read it as a general principle, which leads me to this restatement:
 
To a people starving for meaning, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is art.