Killer Tips for Winning Friends and Influencing People on Twitter from Chris Suspect on Vimeo. This short documentary was put together by four people who met on Twitter and set up a sailing tweet up in the Chesapeake Bay. While you will learn how Twitter can bring people together for a great time, you’ll also [...]

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Oliver Stone introduces his film “South of the Border” at AFI Silverdocs 2010 in Silver Spring, MD. This was shot on an iPhone 3GS and edited in iMovie. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)

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Activist, grandfather, hero…Ed Wiley’s been a busy guy. Most recently he’s one of the main subjects of “On Coal River” a film by Francine Cavanaugh and Adams Wood. His quest for a safe school for the children of Coal River, West Virginia has taken him many places, including the Silverdocs film festival where we met [...]

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With a song, Reverend Billy and his First Church of Stop Shopping choir introduced the film “On Coal River”. Their gospel style was fitting for the film and I, as a West Virginian, truly appreciated their support of this film and this cause. As we say at karaoke, “These kids got pipes.” This was shot [...]

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This is the panel following the Silverdocs 2010 premier of “On Coal River” a film by Francine Cavanaugh and Adams Wood. Special guests were subjects of the film Bo Webb, Judy Bonds, Debbie Jarrell, and Ed Wiley. This was shot with an iPhone 3GS. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)

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Executive Producer, actor and activist Danny Glover and director Henry Corra introduce their film “The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan” for its premier at AFI Silverdocs in Silver Spring, MD. This was shot with an iPhone 3GS. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)

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I caught a little of the sideshow/hand shaking action after Albert Maysles spoke at the American Art Museum after a screening of two of his Christo films, “The Valley Curtain” and “Christo In Paris”. He touches, with humor, on the kind of projects that are (or aren’t) being funded today, some of his own new [...]

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Documentary filmmaker and Guggenheim award winner Albert Maysles introduces and takes questions at the American Art Museum in Washington, DC at a screening of his film “Christo In Paris”. This was shot on the spot with my iPhone. Audio/Video quality is sub-par due to the apparatus, but the subject is priceless as always. Enjoy! Formats [...]

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Amy King interviews Erin Essenmacher, producer of MINE and Scotlund Haisley, animal welfare leader at the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring, MD. Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv)

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I’ve thoroughly enjoyed two pop-culture references to indie (or independent, but we’ll get into that with a little help from Strongbad in a few) film and documentary film in the last week. The first one I saw on the NBC show Community recently where one of the characters decides he wants to follow his dreams [...]

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