[Montréal, Québec, Canada -2°C] Montréal is a city of filmmakers particularly known for its production of documentary films. Like all documentary filmmakers know, it can take a while to complete a film. Few films have a clearly defined beginning, middle and end while others are ongoing and are dependent on an unfolding story and an unknown finally.
GRITtv is a New York City-based, news and arts discussion show that gives weekly attention to documentary films and their filmmakers. What differs GRITtv from other shows is that it focusses on issues and provides context to the stories of the day. It is broadcast via satelite four times each day on Free Speech TV immediately following well known political analysis show hosted by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now. It is also vailable on cable TV in 35 US states and on 200 college TV stations. Of course, GRITtv is available online where viewers can subscribe via video RSS feed.
If you want to get preview your lastest film, get feedback or need help getting images, you may want to consider contacting the show’s host, Laura Flanders to be included on her weekly segment, Got Docs? I will certainly send her a video montage of work-in-progress to get on her show. There is no indication ratio between the number of submission they getas compared to the 52 weeks available in one year but I imagine that competition is tough.
Below is the thursday, January 21, 2010 episode. A Thursday show with a Got Doc? segment at 25:31. The film presented, Sifuna Okwethu, is by Bernadette Atuahene. Translated as “We Want What’s Ours” is a film that explores the tensions of present-day South Africa where families reclaim land disposessed by the racist Apartheid regime. The film follows one family’s attempt to reclaim their land. You can visit the filmmaker’s website, Documentaries to Inspire Social Change for further details about the film.
So if you have a documentary work in progress that you would like to show an excerpt, visit the Got Docs? page for details.
