"The company was started as a company that distributed documentaries and films that deal with social issues, like 'Harlan County USA.' We were very torn because it was a great honor to be at the Museum of Modern Art," she said, "but in the end decided that this was a principle that we believe in very strongly".
Savvy activists like those associated with Black Lives Matter can distribute documentary evidence to more viewers than your favorite cable news station ever could.
Concerned that current models of funding and distributing documentaries in the UK are failing, BRITDOC aims to re-vitalise the industry.
She is also the chairwoman of Arts Engine, a nonprofit organization in New York that produces and distributes documentaries on social issues.
Silverstein consulted with several others in writing the letter, including Debra Zimmerman, executive director of Women Make Movies, which distributes documentaries made by women.
Netflix also rents documentary films and has distributed 13 documentary films that major studios did not pick up.
When students outside the hearing chambers began to riot in response to the subpoenaed witnesses' denouncements of the committee, the KPFA team turned the broadcast into a widely distributed radio documentary.
In 1971 and 1972 I produced a nationally distributed television documentary titled "Class... and the Classroom" that reported on conditions in Duluth, Minn., as the schools prepared to follow a class-desegregation mandate from the state.
So Mr. Gore, now better known as the star of "An Inconvenient Truth" than as the former vice president of the United States, called Brad Grey, the chairman of Paramount whose studio distributed his documentary, for a favor.
The History Channel distributed a documentary named Shockwave; a portion of Episode 7 (originally aired January 25 , 2008 detailed the events of the crash.
Anthem, Rush and Rounder Records have again selected D&E Entertainment (www.DandEentertainment.com), who theatrically distributed the documentary Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage, to bring TIME MACHINE... to the big screen and movie theaters across the U.S. starting October 26.
