The Unforeseen News

06/03/09 BAM Cinematek will feature three programs this fall to complement avant-garde performance fest Nextwave, which is set for Sep. 15-Dec. 19.  |  Variety

04/22/09 There's Joey Carey and JJ Beck's documentary "Greasy Rider" ( available for free on SnagFilms ), in which the filmmakers take a cross-country road trip in a car running on vegetable oil; Adolo Doring's "Blind Spot" ( available on SnagFilms ), a look at the world's dependency on fossil fuels; Laura Dunn's "The Unforeseen" (available on iTunes and Amazon VOD), about the destruction of hill country in Texas; and Mark Leiren-Young's "The Green Chain" ( available on YouTube ), a faux-documentary about the between loggers and environmentalists in the woods of Canada.  |  indieWIRE

10/07/08 The British have a thing about underage sociopathy -- we in the U.S. will puzzle and wonder as a culture about the latest school shooter or the very occasional death-metal bogus-ritual killing, but in tabloid-crazy England a news story of a child murdering a child pinches very powerful nerve endings, and the social wound of it is felt universally and lasts for years, if not indefinitely.  |  Independent Film Channel (IFC)

07/30/08 A quick read of David Ansen 's recent "The End of the Documentary Film Market" over at Newsweek is a good summary of the theatrical marketplace for documentary film as it stands here in mid-summer 2008.  |  indieWIRE