Filmmaking News from Digg.com – 6th Edition
Poster for the Tucson Film and Music Festival Get ready Tucson for a great long weekend of films and music starting Thursday October 8th as the Tucson Film and Music Festival kicks off its 5th annual celebration of cinema and music from around the world. Check back all this week for stories, reports, filmmaker profiles and more.
HBO Doc: OUTRAGE ~ Free Range Talk
Free Range Talk | They fight against same-sex marriage. They fight against funding for AIDS research. They fight against adoption by gay parents. Are they fighting against themselves? Award-winning filmmaker Kirby Dick (of HBO’s Oscar-worthy Twist of Faith) takes a look at the hypocrisy of closeted politicians who continually vote against gay right
Larry Ray : Echoes from Vietnam
‘Afghanistan is an even older and thornier problem [than Vietnam]. And one that cannot be bombed into submission…. Forty three years ago as a young civilian correspondent and documentary filmmaker, I stepped off the plane in Saigon knowing nothing about the history of that country or its people…’
Polanski Will Pay His Victim of Sexual Assault $500,000
The French-Polish director is being held in Switzerland on a US arrest warrant over his 1977 conviction for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.
The confidential deal between Mr Polanski and the victim, Samantha Geimer, was reached in October 1993. It was disclosed because of a two-year struggle to get the film-maker to pay.
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