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Gabriel M. Paletz
Gabriel Paletz, Ph.D (screenwriting), with a BA from Yale University and PhD from the University of Southern California, is the first PhD graduate from the University of Southern California to study film theory and practice at the same time. Dr. Paletz has taught film history, criticism and production at College of William and Mary, Duke University and USC.

  • Warsaw / Krakow 2010: The Two Polands

    In Warsaw the events focus on bringing acclaimed foreign documentaries to Polish audiences, in Krakow the Festival concentrates on promoting Polish films to an international audience.

  • IDFA 2009: Any possible social impact?

    Documentary’s effects span from long views of history to intimate life. A movie may rewrite the past through the present, or a documentary may modify perceptions of the mass media. The following soliloquies and monologues from this year’s IDFA provide a summary of documentary’s capacity, or inability, to enable change.

  • JIHLAVA 2009: Illuminations and illusions

    The young festival team at Jihlava offered us an insight into what the Czech past and reconstructions of their inheritances have to offer today. The programme included films from the period of the Nazi Protectorate of 1939-45, and reflected upon the values of the later generations.

  • DOCUMENTARY HISTORY: Dziga Vertov and the ‘Factory of Facts’

    Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) remains one of the most influential documentary filmmakers. Yet – aside from the astounding The Man with a Movie Camera (1929) – his movies are rarely screened and little known. The Giornate del Cinema Muto Film Festival in Sacile, Italy (9–16 October 2004) hosted a retrospective of Vertov’s vital silent films. The…

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