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...uniquely American art form shares the same African roots as the types of music popular with Aulnay immigrants and their French-born children. After its maiden edition in 2007, the Aulnay All Blues festival became a major event, attracting some of the biggest American names in blues. Last year's event proved to be so popular, Aulnay decided to team up with blues producer Larry Skoller's France-based label Raisin' Music to recapture the magic on a recording. To do so, they arranged for the festival's featured musicians to lay down 21 tracks in a Chicago studio. Shortly...
...Since Friday, Facebook, Twitter and text messages were alive with talk of a speech by former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami. It was to be held at a mosque in the north Tehran neighborhood of Jamaran, the last home of Ayatollah Khomeini, high in the foothills of the Alborz mountains...
...crowd was soon reviewing all the chants in the green movement archive, as if reliving the triumphant moments of the last six months. Above them, a giant image of Khomeini hung respected and intact at the entrance to the meeting hall. It made a mockery of the engineered furor surrounding the desecration of his portrait earlier this month, footage of which was later broadcast on state television in an attempt to discredit the opposition...
...realize that cutting the middleman out of the process is sometimes the best way to guarantee large audiences see their works. This is especially true at a time when funding from studios has been seriously hit by the recession - just as it was on the way up. "The last 10 years has been a renaissance period for independent filmmaking and there has been more money coming into production for films than in any other decade in the history of film," says Jonathan Wolf, managing director of the American Film Market, an annual event where filmmakers and studio executives converge...
...Even some mainstream filmmakers are starting to use online distribution to build buzz about their projects or simply to get their films to as many people as possible. Last year, Michael Moore released Slacker Uprising - a documentary about his attempts to have President George W. Bush removed from office in the run-up to the 2004 election - online for free in the U.S and Canada to encourage young people to vote. And in May, documentary filmmaker Franny Armstrong launched a website called www.indiescreenings.net, where people can buy a license and then screen her climate-change documentary, The Age of Stupid...