November, upon us like a helping of heavily syrupped sweet potatoes, brings with it this bounty of news from our past Fellows/Finalists... Congratulations to Sachiko Akiyama (Sculpture/Installation Fellow '05), Angela Cunningham (Crafts Finalist '11, '09), David Valdes Greenwood (Playwriting Finalist '03), Wendy Jehlen (Choreography Finalist '04), and Robert Todd (Film … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – September 11
In September, past MCC fellows/finalists venture into imagined flora, faraway lands, outer space, the impermanent, the temporary, and the nearly not. (For starters.) And now, we venture into our monthly round-up of the news of past awardees of our Artist Fellowships Program. Karen Aqua (Film & Video Fellow '11) will be honored by the Institute of Contemporary … [Read more...]
Filmmakers Rising
Jeff Zimbalist screens film at Tribeca and Cannes, ESPN next; Marlo Poras and Jeff Silva receive LEF funding In an interview with Linda Hassler in Huffington Post, Jeff Zimbalist (Film & Video Fellow '05) and Michael Zimbalist discuss how their film The Two Escobars originated not with PBS or HBO (as you might expect with an international documentary), but with ESPN. … [Read more...]
Rest in peace, Granny D
We learned that Doris "Granny D" Haddock, a well-known New England political activist, has passed away at the age of 100. Granny D was best known for walking across the country at 90 years old to support campaign finance reform and for her US Senate run against Judd Gregg in 2004. That Senate race was captured in the spirited, engaging documentary Run Granny Run, directed by … [Read more...]