Making Media Now 2009!

Thank you to all our attendees, speakers, sponsors, and participants for making Making Media Now 2009 a success!

We were happy to present keynote speaker, Robert Greenwald, award-winning filmmaker of Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Iraq for Sale, and Outfoxed. Other special guests included Sandi Dubowski, award-winning filmmaker of Trembling Before G-d and A Jihad for Love, Doug Block, award-winning director of 51 Birch St., Jim Jermanok, producer & writer of Passionada and Em, Ruby Lerner from Creative Capital, Sheila Leddy from the Fledgling Fund, Alyce Myatt from Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media, and Andy Carvin, of NPR, and many others!

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For those of you who registered for our PREMIUM registration, or would like to purchase our MMN podcasts of every panel that day, the material is being prepared to stream for late July! Updates to come!

Who we are

Filmmakers Collaborative is a membership organization of media makers in the Greater Boston area. Our members produce documentaries, animation, experimental, and narrative media about a range of topics as diverse as history, art, music, education, global concerns, politics, environmental science, urban planning, community organizing, women’s issues, and cultural studies. Read more about us…

Meet the filmmakers

Our membership consists of established, award-winning filmmakers, many of whom have produced work for PBS, WGBH-TV, cable television, museums, and corporations, and others who are new to filmmaking. Our members are as diverse as the films we make. We invite you to meet each of our members and join them in their exploration of the ideas that they investigate on film and video. Read more about our filmmakers…

Please help support Filmmakers Collaborative by making a tax-deductible secure online donation through PayPal. Your gift will help us continue to support independent filmmaking!

Internet Distribution Discussion

Interested in Internet distribution? AIMM hosted a Lunchbox Lab where several local filmmakers, distributors and media gurus discussed the state of Internet distribution. Posted below are seven 10 minute clips highlighting their discussion.

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