A project newsletter following the making of the film Surviving Still, sharing archival discoveries and updates for backers. Issues cover newly found material from the Karolinska Institutet and reflections on the film's imagery.
Website: https://survivingstill.com/
Analysis and commentary on the independent and documentary film ecosystem from a longtime nonprofit-sector insider. Issues cover foundation funding strategy, the economics of festival prestige and distribution, and community ownership efforts such as the Letterboxd bid.
Planet: Coordinate is a community newsletter from an independent documentary project following grassroots land and environmental struggles, notably in Colombia. Readers get project updates, film progress notes and long-form essays on land occupation, agro-ecology and alternative visions for the future.
Dear Producer features career advice, interviews with working film producers, and event invitations from an AFI producing faculty member. Readers get practical insight into producing, distribution, and breaking into the film industry.
Planet M is a storytelling studio that shares updates on its science fiction audio, its game EOS10: Anomaly, and its first documentary, Section 14, about the forced removal of Black and Latino families from Palm Springs. Issues mix production news and fundraising appeals with in-universe fiction, serialized as transmissions from the EOS10 station.
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