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We've been following Kickstarter crowd funding site for a while now. And it seems that it's doing well. Crowd source funding is a complicated business to predict, so far a few crowd source sites have gone out of business (Rest in peace fundable) While only a handful skillful filmmakers managed to fund their movies using this method. Kickstarter  really opens up funding opportunities for a wider range of film creators. Take a look at Hands That Feed: Haiti's food crisis, with 39 hours to go the documentary drawn 202 backers, while the latest update is really exciting the creators wrote on their blog "A Texas-based community foundation has offered Hands That Feed matching funds for the next $2,000 in donations. The production got full fund.



The University Paris 1 is responsible for one of the largest documentary resource centres in France. The Sorbonne library has a collection of almost three million books, 100,000 of which are more than 200 years old, and 17,500 periodicals covering all the humanities. The library and map collection of the Geography Institute are the oldest such collection in France.

In addition, the 400,000 volumes in the specialist libraries offer users one of the largest collections in France and in Europe.

The Cujas Library, co-administered with Paris II, with its computerised documentation service, provides access to over 500 data banks and is the largest law and economics library in France.

The new Economics Building houses another resource centre, and the library at the Centre Pierre Mendès France offers students free access to its large collection.

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IDA Docuweek lineup includes compelling shorts and feature documentaries. Filmmakers. DocuWeeks helps to qualify feature and short documentaries for Academy Awardconsideration, by providing its participants with a seven-day commercial theatrical run in Los Angeles County and in the Borough of Manhattan. Per Academy requirements, shorts will screen in only one location, either in the

 


The 5th International Student Film Camp ‘Interaction – Zlatibor 10’ organized by the Independent Film Centre ‘Filmart’ and will be held on Zlatibor (Serbia) from 27 to 14th August 2010.

20 students of film production, directing, cinematography, sound design and editing from 15 countries, divided into 4 crews, are going to shoot 4 documentaries on the theme ‘Tolerance of differences’.

 

ITVS International is looking for single documentaries with powerful global stories that inform, inspire, and connect Americans to the world at large. ITVS fund programs from all points of view that engage American audiences and expand civic participation by bringing diverse voices into the public sphere. ITVS embraces projects from every part of the world, including places that are lesser known to U.S. audiences or seldom represented on U.S. television. ITVS especially encourage producers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East to apply for funding.