We’ve been working with the Sundance Institute to produce a new community site aimed at connecting independent documentary and human rights. The subject matter is extremely compelling, and the organization behind the effort is one we’re very proud to be working with.
This past week, we had a chance to experience the energy around the project firsthand at this year’s Sundance Film Festival as we snuck away from the office for a few days to help announce the launch of Docsource.
The new site includes discussion areas, film and artist profiles, video clips, and multi-user blogs authored by filmmakers and representatives from the Documentary Film Program (DFP). And that’s just the start. The site will continue to grow over the coming weeks and beyond.
The festival
Snow has kind of jumped the shark in my book, but the festival was incredible. The films we took in were great, the filmmakers we got to meet to were wildly interesting, and a few of us (them) actually got in to see U2-3D. The whole experience was well worth the planes, trains and automobiles effort it took to get out there (all of us were plagued by United “mechanical difficulties.”)
If you’re at all interested, most of us had cameras with us.
No pics of the Airbag guys (we’ll catch you at SXSW), but there’s some good stuff in there. A few of Stefan’s shots even hit the flickr blog.
More updates soon - we’re going Gattaca with the site launches.
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