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NEW ARTICLE: Copyright and Public Domain: An Updated Primer, in Documentary magazine, June 13, 2020. Adapted from the 2nd edition of ​Archival Storytelling: A Filmmaker's Guide to Finding, Using, and Licensing Third-Party Visuals and Music, 2nd ed, from Focal Press/Routledge.  

June 2020: All fourteen hours of Eyes on the Prize ​(series I and II) are are streaming free (registration required) at Facing History and Ourselves, https://www.facinghistory.org/books-borrowing/eyes-prize-study-guide.  

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PBS Video seems to be no longer selling the 7 DVD package for $250, representing the entire series. They are still selling hours 1-6 (1954-1965), which cover only the southern movement during those years.

Additional resources, including program transcripts, can be found at the PBS American Experience website, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/ 

Other resources, including unedited interview transcripts, can be found at the Henry Hampton Collection, Washington State University, http://libguides.wustl.edu/hampton. 


WATCH ONLINE: March 2017. History Film Forum, National Museum of American History and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC. March 9-12.  "Responsibilities of History Filmmakers," with biographer Scott Berg, historian Ed Ayers, and filmmakers Melissa Haizlip and Nancy Buirsky.  

Online resources available for teaching Slavery by Another Name​, including 20-minute classroom version

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Twin Cities Public Television and partners have created Slavery by Another Name Digital Storytelling, a media-making curriculum that includes a shorter (20-minutes) online version of the film. 

The film is no longer streaming on PBS, but many libraries have access to Kanopy and may have licensed it for streaming. 





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Net Neutrality, Fair Use, Free Speech

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. [ratified 1791]

Freedom Forum's First Amendment Center 

Net Neutrality, 
​www.savetheinternet.com/faq

​American University Center for Media & Social Impact - an amazing resource for information on public media, fair use and more

Stanford Law School's The Center for Internet and Society
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Various resources 

DRAMA
  • The Dramatists Guild​
  • The Playwrights Center 
  • Adam Szymkowicz, "I Interview Playwrights" 
  • #New Play TV -- Dramatist Guild events streamed live
  • Written By -- The Magazine of the Writers Guild of America, West
  • Filmmakers Collaborative
  • Independent Filmmaker Project
  • Sundance Institute
DOCUMENTARY
  • National Film Board of Canada - lots of great films to watch
  • International Documentary Association
  • P.O.V. (PBS series)
  • Independent Lens (PBS series)
  • BBC Storyville
  • Writers Guild of America, West Documentary Screenplay Information
  • Writers Guild of America, East
  • Shooting People - independent filmmakers' network in the UK
  • The D-Word - an online, global community of documentary professionals
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Representation, parity

THEATER
  • ​​​The Count.20: Who's Getting Produced in the U.S., written by Julia Jordan (2011-2017 seasons)

FILM & TELEVISION
  • ​The Ms. Factor Toolkit - The Power of Female-Driven Content
  • Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, "studying diversity and inclusion in entertainment through original research and sponsored projects."
  • Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media​








































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