Monthly Archives: January 2010

At Sundance, New Routes to Finding an Audience

By MO | Published: January 28, 2010
Brooks Barnes in The New York Times: PARK CITY, Utah — The starkest picture to emerge from the opening days of this year’s Sundance Film Festival may be of an independent film business forced to stretch in untested directions because its old distribution model no longer works. Standard operating procedure over the years at Sundance, the [...]
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Nonfiction Filmmakers Still Tell Rich Stories

By MO | Published: January 26, 2010
Chloe Veltman in The New York Times: The Bay Area has long been known as a center for documentary filmmaking. Many local documentarians have won or been nominated for Academy Awards, including Sam Green (“The Weather Underground”) and Robert Epstein (“The Times of Harvey Milk”). The area is home to the Independent Television Service, a major [...]
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Omar Khayyam Rubai – Paimana Bideh Ki Khumaar Astam

By MO | Published: January 20, 2010
Omar Khayyam Rubai – Paimana Bideh Ki Khumaar Astam from Tasawwuf on Vimeo.
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Top 50 Documentaries of the Decade

By MO | Published: January 20, 2010
From The Documentary Blog: This is it. The end of the lists. Finally! So the other day I posted the best documentaries of the decade as selected by a group of acclaimed documentary filmmakers. Now, we’ve got The Documentary Blog’s own top 50 docs of the decade. More here.
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Roads need bicycles

By MO | Published: January 18, 2010
Naeem Sadiq in The News: In Karachi, on the other hand, there is not a single bicycle path. Nor is there a plan to make one. The 2020 Karachi Strategic Development Plan has billions earmarked for roads, flyovers and underpasses, but not a penny for the construction of bicycle paths. It seems the city is stuck [...]
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