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I’ve been an “independent producer” for about 6 years now – after a couple decades being one of those rare “dependent producers” working as the in-house media producer for the Wildlife Conservation Society (headquartered at the Bronx Zoo). Naturally, most of my contacts have been in the very small world of wildlife and science docs and news stories.

You can see samples of some of my work at my website:

www.thereallyinterestingpicturecompany.com

Back in 1997 I was part of a small group that helped start an organization called Filmmakers For Conservation (http://filmmakersforconservation.org ) and I served on the board there for a few years. While FFC does a good job representing its community, I am impressed with D-WORD – it has a dedication to professional networking on a scale that FFC could never have dreamed of.

I am interested in expanding into new subject areas and new genres, and am looking forward to developing a network in the larger filmmaking community.

Theodore, Draper, Thomas, good to have you all here with us. Feel free to leap right into the discussions.

Welcome everyone.

In reply to Theodore James's post on Mon 14 May 2012 :

I am a fan of Wordplay. It's a great simple story well told.

Hi All,

I'm a filmmaker in Toronto, currently working on my first feature doc and developing two other docs. Very glad to be a part of this.

Nice meeting all of you!
Jane

Hello, my name is Kristine Kalnina, I am from Latvia. This is small country with outstanding traditions of documentary cinema (http://www.culture.lv/en/heritage/31/), and I'm happy thet I grew up at time and place, where newest films of Hertz Frank, Juris Podnieks were must-to-see for every child, so giving further understanding about documentary.
About me – I' m working at TV company for last 14 yrs as broadcasting planner and coordinator.
Work in area of photo&video editing and arranging exibitions is my hobby and second direction of work. There I’m focused to find, to understand & make working the essential value, the uniqueness of every event, personality or product which comes to be shown.
Some video editing samples are here: http://www.youtube.com/user/kkristine911/videos
I like this field of work, and I hope this is a very begining of quite interesting way
Thanks, nice day to everybody!

Hi,

My name is Tracey Quezada, I'm the producer of You and Me and the Fruit Trees. Below is my pitch that needs to be shorten. Any suggestions are very helpful!

You and Me and the Fruit Trees interweaves compelling stories of child sexual abuse. Through each story we see how society’s inability to effectively address child sexual abuse impacts not only individuals, but whole communities and society at large.

Hui, Kristine, Tracey, welcome to The D-Word. Great to have so many folks registering recently.

Hi my name is Linda Ann Eknoian, I am an independent producer, filmmaker and actress residing in Boston, MA. I have done some contracted work through Boston Neighborhood Network station in a variety of roles. I am currently working on two documentaries: In the Line of Duty – featuring focusing on Boston Fire Department – Division 1 and Occupy Boston, short focusing on the formation of the Boston Movement. My work can be seen on http://lindaeknoian.com/filmmakerspage.html and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dqVSz0vUbs. Both clips are "rough cut trailers".

Welcome, Linda. Be sure to go the extra mile by registering for Professional status here. It'll give you access to all 50 discussion topics, for starters.

Ooops, just noticed you already had , Linda. That's what I get for posting here before checking the daily registrations

Hello,
I´m Camila Agustini, from Brazil, but actually living in Montreal, Canada. I´m an independent filmmaker, recently graduated from International School of Cinema and TV in Cuba (EICTV – www.eictv.org). Last year, I was in the organization of International Festival of Digital Culture (www.culturadigital.org.br)
Right now, I´m collaborating in the development of 2 documentaries and 1 multimedia project besides other projects in fiction.
I´m glad to be here!
Thank you, guys!

hi!my name is Dydine UMUNYANA I'm an independent filmmaker from Rwanda a small and beautiful country with thousand in central Africa... Currently I'm working on two documentary projects.... and I' m also working in UMBRELLA CINEMA PROMOTERS as Founder and CEO, Our aim is to protect the talented young African woman by Promoting African woman in bringing the light to Afirca through Cinema.

I'm glad to be in this professional community of documentary filmmakers.

In reply to Dydine UMUNYANA's post on Mon 21 May 2012 :

Hey Dydine.

That sounds like a great prospect. It's unbelievable what the internet can do. People around the world will get to see talented filmmakers from your small and beautiful country. Can't wait!

Camila and Dydine, really great that you found us. A warm welcome to The D-Word!

Dydine – great to have you on the D-word. I'm sure you'll find many useful resources here.

And thanks for coming to the documentary workshop in Kigali – it's wonderful to have such talented students!

Hello all,
My name is Owen Donovan, I'm a freelance cinematographer working out of Brooklyn. I mainly shoot Music Videos and Narratives but would like to also work on some documentaries. If any of you find yourself in need of a cinematographer please feel free to contact me. Here is a link to my website where you can find my reel and also scene excerpts and music videos from some projects I have photographed. www.OwenDonovanNYC.com
my email is OwenDonovanDOP(at)gmail(dot)com
All the best,

O

Welcome, Owen. Hope The D-Word helps you with your doc work.

Hello!
@ Raymund Gerard C.Cruz,Doug block and James Longley(my trainer in the workshop)

Thanks for your encouraging am very excited to be with you all in this site and i except to learn more from you in this career we are in altogether,

James am very happy to have in this K-DOX workshop, training us as big you are, ,respect.
thanks at all.

Hello all,
my name is Jean claude MUHIRE, and am freelancer filmmaker in Rwanda from Africa and am now working on the project called Rwanda, my nation my life, it's a documentary project of showing the real history of rwanda from the time it started existing up to present.
so i want to contribute that for my country and let people think differently about Rwanda, know what's Rwanda is.

Thanks and looking forward to keep in touch all of you.

MUHIRE

My name is REMY RYUMUGABE, I'm an independent filmmaker from Rwanda , a small and beautiful country nicknamed Country of thousand hills..Right now I'm co-directing a film called Along the way...also working on my two documentaries

I'm glad to be here

Jean Claude and Remy, glad to have you joining Dydine here with us at The D-Word. Feel free to leap into the discussions in the various topics.

Hey,my names are Odile Uwimbabazi a freelance film maker from a country of thousand hills Rwanda,for the last 5 days I had a chance to be with James Longley in a documentary workshop, my dream is being realised in a way of doing documentaries and I hope to learn more from this website.

Welcome, Odile. You can join your workshop mates and register for professional status here. That way you'll have access to all 50 discussion topics.

I'm a freelance video journalist based in Kabul, Afghanistan.
I learned about the D-Word through reading an article about the very talented James Longley.
Some of my work can be seen here (short demo reel)
https://vimeo.com/41980764
It's great to be part of this community, and I look forward to connecting with people and seeing new work!

Dear all!
I'm BUHORO filmmaker from Rwanda, Am currently working on my documentary projects.
It's very excited to be here with all of you and i hope together we will make great stuff in this world of documentary films.

Thanks a lot.
BUHORO