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In this month's fair use question a poetry teacher asks whether a "mash-up" assignment will invite legal trouble. Read more...

How did the filmmakers for "Give Up Tomorrow" leverage the film for political action and justice for the film's subjects? Filmmaker Gemma Cubero's research shows how a film's engagement strategies are just as important as the film itself.

“Story drives everything,” says Felicia Pride, accomplished author turned transmedia extraordinaire. The Center enthusiastically welcomes Pride on board as a Media Fellow, bringing a wealth of experience in media storytelling starting with her days as publicist and author in New York to her most recent venture, Pride Collaborative in Washington, D.C.

At Tribeca Film Festival's Interactive Day, the fest's interactive strand crackled with energy, as filmmakers and developers traded insights.  Read more...

Creative geek Andy Baio had a hellish experience with copyright and fair use when he made "Kind of Bloop," a weird and wonderful electronic cover of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue.

What does the “user experience” look like for an interactive documentary? LandofOpportunity’s (LoP) Luisa Dantas and Laine-Kaplan Levinson are working closely with Uncharted Digital to figure this out. 

The traditional film festival has morphed into a multitude of events beyond film screenings as programmers capitalize on the media expertise that gathers in unexpected places like Columbia, Missouri, Durham, North Carolina, Austin, Texas or Washington, D.C.

BAVC released the Impact Playbook: Best Practices for Understanding the Impact of Media on April 9, 2013, with support from The Fledgling Fund.  The report was researched and completed by Harmony Institute, a center that focuses their research on the impact of entertainment on society and individuals.

Julie Goldman spent nearly 15 years breaking the traditional role of being an independent documentary film producer.  With three films in this year’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, there is no sign she is slowing down anytime soon.

One way to reach a bigger audience: don't just make a documentary, make the narrative feature, too. Directors at the 2013 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival made a strong case for how documentaries can inform narrative features.