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Field of Vision launches as new online home for documentary films
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Field of Vision plans to commission as many as 50 short nonfiction documentaries per year on its website, which launched Tuesday.
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Monday roundup: Questions about WGBH income; VPT legal fees
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Plus: A Boston Marathon playlist, a professor accuses PBS of bias and Laura Poitras returns to the U.S.
Programs/Content
Omidyar and Greenwald’s new journalism venture will be incorporated nonprofit
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First Look Media, a new journalism organization backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and headed by former Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, will include a 501(c)3 nonprofit as part of its structure. The company, announced in June with $250 million in promised capital from Omidyar, will comprise several entities, including a for-profit division dedicated to exploring new media technologies. According to a Dec. 19 announcement, the still-unnamed nonprofit-journalism side of the company will create a digital publication. Funds from the technology wing will support the journalism, which will retain editorial independence.
Programs/Content
Focus on anti-terrorism becomes ‘life-changing’ story for filmmaker Poitras
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After plumbing the global repercussions of America’s war against terrorism, documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras helped expose how that war has stripped away the privacy of U.S. citizens.
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New class of MacArthur fellows includes two POV filmmakers
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Two acclaimed filmmakers whose work has been featured on the documentary showcase POV on PBS were among the 2012 “Genius Grant” recipients, announced Monday by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Natalia Almada and Laura Poitras, along with the 21 other grantees, will each receive $500,000 paid over five years. Almada, based in Brooklyn and Mexico City, produces works that spotlight the conflict and turmoil of individual lives in Mexico, as well as the complex realities of immigration. Three of her films have been featured on POV, including 2005’s Al Otro Lado and 2009’s El General. Her most recent work, El Velador (The Night Watchman), aired on Sept.