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 About Tanja Meding
Since moving to New York from Germany in 2003, Tanja Meding has worked as a producer for Maysles Films and other independent production companies. Amongst others, she produced SALLY GROSS – THE PLEASURE OF STILLNESS by Albert Maysles and Kristen Nutile which aired on Channel Thirteen and is now available on DVD from www.reframecollection.org. Since 2007, Tanja has been producing short films by Rosane Chamecki, Andrea Lerner and Phil Harder. Their latest work CONVERSATION WITH BOXING GLOVES was commissioned by PERFORMA and SF MOMA. In addition, Tanja is the associate producer of Pascale Obolo's upcoming documentary ROSE, CALYPSO DIVA and co-producer of Gabriella Bier's LOVE AT WAR, an emotionally loaded documentary about an Israeli dancer and her Palestinian husband.
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Latest 5 Stories And Articles By Tanja Meding
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 Siggraph 2010 Part 2 - The Production Sessions
The Production Sessions at Siggraph's 2010 Computer Animation Festival are always enlightening, entertaining and extremely educational. Besides panel discussions on the making of some of last season’s block busters like AVATAR, IRON MAN 2, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON and THE LAST AIRBENDER, this year's Siggraph also offered an inspiring session with Teddy Newton, director of Pixar's latest short DAY & NIGHT. In addition, an exclusive 8 minute sneak peak of TRON: LEGACY ....
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 A Laptop Against Poverty, a documentary by Chiara Sambuchi
Imagine a versatile green laptop for $100 US, that can go online, takes pictures and video, works with solar energy and can even survive being dropped on the floor! Look no further – it exists – the XO 2, conceived, produced and distributed by Nicholas Negraponte and his team at ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD (OLPC), a non-profit organization. If you want one, buy one for a child in a developing country and another for yourself. Prior to becoming founder and chairman of OLPC, Negraponte was ....
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 Siggraph 2010: The people behind the pixel – Part 1
For five days at the end of July, LA's downtown Convention Center was entirely dedicated to pixels, those tiny technological wonders that enable us to enjoy movies, games, arts and entertainment. The people who create and manipulate those pixels were in high attendance at this year’s Siggraph 2010 Conference.This year, the annual conference, exhibition and festival of computer graphics and interactive techniques was titled THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE PIXEL. However, a second subheading could ....
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 David Wants to Fly
David Sieveking is a young emerging, Berlin-based filmmaker, with high ambitions, but no real inspiration. Making subversive films like David Lynch, his hero, in his dreams. Meeting the master himself has been on his list for a long, long time. When he learns that Lynch will speak at a conference about transcendental meditation in Fairfield, Iowa – of all places - he seizes the moment, gets a ticket and flies out to meet his idol. As an added bonus he get a first introduction to ....
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 A report from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
As I write this report, oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico, despite the many highly qualified scientists, environmentalists, engineers, technicians, politicians, activists, and volunteers all trying to control this catastrophe. Add numerous other human emergencies going on day-after-day around the world to this major environmental disaster and you can start feeling helpless and hopeless. But, turn around and take a look at some of the entries of this year’s HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH ....
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