Cartoon Modern blog about 1950s animation. Mark Frauenfelder:
Amid Amidi has launched a new blog to go along with his soon-to-be published book about 1950s animation, called Fifties Animation Design. Amid recently shared a few sample pages from the book with me, and I can tell already that it will be one of my all time favorite books. Link to Cartoon Modern [Boing Boing]
AFTER INNOCENCE: Film that screened at Sundance 2005 on DNA advances that led to exoneration of wrongly convicted individuals and the impact on their lives. Comments by Xeni Jardin of BoingBoing: Jessica Sanders’ new film After Innocence debuts this month in theaters around the US.
AFTER INNOCENCE tells the dramatic and compelling story of the exonerated innocent men wrongfully imprisoned for decades and then released after DNA evidence proved their innocence. The film focuses on the gripping story of seven men and their emotional journey back into society and efforts to rebuild their lives. Included are a police officer, an army sergeant and a young father sent to prison and even death row for decades for crimes they did not commit.
The men are thrust back into society with little or no support from the system that put them behind bars. While the public views exonerations as success stories – wrongs that have been righted – AFTER INNOCENCE shows that the human toll of wrongful imprisonment can last far longer than the sentences served.
Link to cities and dates. The film also features Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, founders of the Innocence Project, which has exonerated more than l50 people in the past ten years through the use of DNA testing. [Boing Boing]
REVIEW BY STEPHEN HOLDEN OF THE NYTIMES:
Calm, deliberate and devastating, Jessica Sanders’s documentary confirms many of the worst fears about weaknesses in the American criminal-justice system. In examining the cases of seven men wrongly convicted of murder and rape and exonerated years later by DNA evidence, the film reinforces the queasy feelings you have while following high-profile criminal trials. The film, written by Ms. Sanders and Marc Simon, was made in collaboration with The Innocence Project, a nonprofit legal clinic founded in 1992 by the lawyers Barry C. Sheck and Peter J. Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in Manhattan. The clinic handles only cases in which post-conviction DNA testing can yield conclusive proof of innocence. Its work has helped exonerate more than 160 people, and it estimates that DNA testing could free thousands more.
NOTE FROM CYNDI: I saw this film at Sundance 2005. It’s an excellent documentary! Well worth the time and effort to find it and see it. Seek it out in your city!
Film Fest Confidential. Recently, Cathy Fischer (the senior editor of Inside Indies) hosted a conference call interview with Matt Dentler, Rachel Rosen from the Los Angeles Film Festival, and Brian Gordon from the Nashville Film Festival. The interview, dubbed “Film Fest Confidential,” included discussions about the submission process for festivals as well as what their taste includes outside the world of independent filmmaking. You… By Matt Dentler. [blogs.indieWIRE.com: Independent Film]
The SpongeBob SquarePants movie game coming for Mac. Aspyr Media today announced it will publish The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie game for Macintosh, with an anticipated release this month… [MacMinute]
Use higher resolution than Apple spec MPEG4s on the iPod Video
– Mike Curtis [HD For Indies]
Shorts, 11/2.. Did you know Andrew Bujalski’s Mutual Appreciation now has an official site? From which you can buy the DVD? I didn’t, but Doug Cummings did: “Like Funny Ha Ha, the film benefits enormously from a charismatic and unique lead… [GreenCine Daily]
