Silverdocs have announced their competition line-up. And here it is: US FEATURE COMPETITION BULLETPROOF SALESMAN / USA, 2008, 70 minutes (Director: Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein)—For civilians, diplomats, and soldiers, roadside bombs in war-torn areas are a constant scourge. For Fidelis Cloer, they are a check in the mail. Cloer sells armored vehicles to the highest bidder, and his business acumen provides a disturbingly simple and unsentimental context in which to understand international conflict. CHEVOLUTION / USA, 2008, 90 minutes…

I was walking down the Bowery on Saturday minding my own business when I bumped into a guy with a TV on his head. As you do!

I just linked to this on Twitter but it’s so gobsmackingly creative that I have to post it here too. MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Some photos from the awesome IFFBoston where my short film 34x25x36 screened back in April.

When my job and my life start to feel a bit random and pointless (like when you start saying a word over and over again and it starts to sound bizarre and meaningless) I always wish that I was a war photographer. I think I really want to be a doctor but my camera skills are definitely better than my surgical skills so war photographer it is. I don’t mean to sound facetious. I really do want to be on…

It has been so frustrating not having time to blog about all the films and other events I attended at HotDocs and then Tribeca. Work has foiled me every time. It has just been a nutty couple of weeks – full of good things but no time to sit and think and write. Yesterday I got home and was so tired that I watched the end of Music and Lyrics and then the end of Just My Luck before crashing…

Shooter Marc Hawker has co-directed (with Ishbel Whitaker) a series of films for Amnesty’s unsubscribe campaign, depicting various kinds of torture used by the CIA in US detention camps. We recently featured Waiting for The Guards on Watch Film and now you can watch Marc’s latest film for the campaign, a 90 second piece shot at 1,000 frames per second, called The Stuff of Life, depicting someone undergoing waterboarding, or what the CIA euphemistically refers to as an “enhanced interrogation…

My friend Duska Zagorac made this video in response to Jennifer Fox’s Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman which starts screening on Sundance Channel tonight. Duska is featured in Flying and you can read more about her and the other women Jennifer talks with in the film here. My festival whirlwind is over so I’m looking forward to having some time to catch up on blogging and “real” life. Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone!