Doc filmmaker/professor/writer. @WalkByMeFilm AWAKE (Yogananda); One Lucky Elephant; Crazy Wisdom; Metamorphosis; Out of Faith; American Veda Docu Project,
Joined September 2010
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Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.
Read more: abcnews.link/1T4poi4
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Hey Bay Area, Wavy Gravy’s 90th birthday at the Masonic Auditorium in SF 5/16. A celebration and fundraiser for his foundation Seva, which has been restoring eyesight around the world for years. Steve Earle, Cat Power, Todd Rundgren, Moldy Peaches & more. Seva.org/wavy.
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Sirens & helicopter near #Venice dog park on Main Street - any idea what’s happening ? @ScannerPacific #venicebeach
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#NowHiring: Editorial Assistant - Great opportunity for aspiring journalists looking to enter the film beat! povmagazine.com/now-hiring-e…
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Learn to geolocate. Develop an eye for AI. Archive everything.
As bystander and surveillance videos continue to drive major news stories, visual investigation skills are mandatory.
Here are 5 tips to verify video authenticity online, debunk AI-generated content and become a better visual investigator: poynter.org/reporting-editin…
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NEH's Media Projects grant program is accepting applications!
Deadline to apply is June 25, 2026.
Learn more: neh.gov/grants
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“The glory of art is that it can not only survive change, it can lead it.” -Robert Redford #Oscars
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Feb 27
Outside Anthropic's office in SF... intense moment!
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Feb 24
Happy #FairUse week!
Feb 23
Happy Fair Use Week, everyone! We love fair use. We use it every day, and you probably do, too. So as a part of the Fair Use week celebrations, we are extending our series on the 50th Anniversary of the Copyright Act of 1976 to include a week of posts on Section 107 of Title 17, our fair use statute.
authorsalliance.org/2026/02/…
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Stellen Skarsgard on the the growing presence of AI in the movie industry:
"For thousands of years, people have been very much interested in people. Describing people is what theater does, what film does — and what we do best. In film — even better than in television — you can describe all the unspoken words, all the unspoken facets of a relationship that are almost impossible to explain but are still there. We will always be curious about other people. That curiosity will never leave us."
What form it takes, how it will be produced — maybe some people will be happy enough with what AI can produce, and some will not. But I think the main problem for the moving image industry today is the concentration of capital. And the concentration of capital is the problem for every industry, for humanity. AI is nothing without the men behind it. AI is owned by the tech barons standing right behind power."
variety.com/2026/film/awards…
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Feb 20
Ok #LadyGaga
Feb 20
Earlier this week I moderated a Q&A with the filmmakers behind MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN and Pavel Talankin, co-director/subject, said he hopes Lady Gaga learns that he played her version of the U.S. national anthem to protest the propaganda in the Russian school he worked at.
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Articulating the purpose and promise of your documentary is a foundational step in advancing your project. Through a series of short-video presentations, IDA staff break down Core App questions into four distinct sections. Watch on the IDA YouTube channel.
youtube.com/watch?v=SHUhmWKg…
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Feb 17
Yes!!! Long live the em dash; colon - & semi-colon. #writing
Feb 17
There’s this never-ending debate about whether em dashes, semicolons, and colons have become signs of AI writing. As a result, many of us writers have stopped using them—swapping them for commas or reshaping sharp, effective sentences into something blander—to avoid suspicion.
But AI was trained on the best of us. On millions of published works by real authors. It learned from our voices, our rhythms, our punctuation. And now we’re acting as if those marks somehow belong to machines.
They don’t.
Those tools were ours long before AI existed. Our teachers taught us how and when to use them, years before anyone imagined generative AI. So let’s take them back. Let’s use the full range of language with confidence. The em dash, the semicolon, the colon—they’re not signals of artificiality. They’re signs of craft.
#WritingCommunity #writerslife
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Feb 16
The recording from our Public Domain Day virtual event is now available!
🕵️ Investigate THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING COPYRIGHT to learn which works entered the public domain—and why copyright is more complicated than it looks.
Watch the full recording ⤵️
archive.org/details/the-case…
#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Copyright #OpenCulture @Auths_Alliance
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Feb 16
Amazing. Intriguing. Concerning. Wondrous. #AI #filmmaking
Feb 16
As promised, here's the short film Jia Zhangke produced using Seedance 2.0 for Chinese New Year and his take on AI filmmaking
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Feb 16
FIPRESCI names finalists for inaugural Documentary Grand Prix as international film critics get ready to name the best doc of 2025 povmagazine.com/fipresci-ann…
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Learn to geolocate. Develop an eye for AI. Archive everything.
As bystander and surveillance videos continue to drive major news stories, visual investigation skills are mandatory. Here are five tips to verify video authenticity online, debunk AI-generated content and become a better visual investigator: buff.ly/oGDlNsN
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Feb 15
Sounds bleak
Feb 15
Paul Schrader on AI films
But what does this Paul Schrader guy know about films anyway so
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HI @ScannerPacific - any idea what’s happening in Venice near Main St & Abbot Kinney, low flying helicopters with voice coming from helicopter ??
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