Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Architecture mailing list for e-mail subscribers
Just added to the First Run / Icarus Films e-mail list: an option to receive updates on our titles for architecture! Don't miss out on new releases and specials for our large selection of titles dealing with architects such as Mies Van Der Rohe and Shigeru Ban and current issues such as sustainability. Labels: site updates
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Join Our Facebook Group
First Run/Icarus Film has a
new group on Facebook. Join us for another way of getting news about festivals and screenings, new releases, watch trailers and discuss our films with fellow documentary fans.
Labels: facebook, site updates
Suggestions for Environmental Film Festivals
After hearing very positive feedback from users of our new page of film suggestions for Jewish Film Festival programmers, we decided to create a page for our environmental film festival programmers as well.
Suggestions for Environmental Film Festivals includes recent environmental favorites such as
TAMBOGRANDE,
THE BATTLE OF CHERNOBYL and
OUR DAILY BREAD.
Labels: environment, Our Daily Bread, site updates, subject pages, sustainablility
Site Map Now Live
We are pleased to announce a new
Comprehensive Site Map to help you find your way around the First Run/Icarus Films website. In addition to all the major sections of the site, you can easily navigate from this page to any subject area, year, or to specialized sections like filmmaker profiles, e-cards or press kits. And if you've already bookmarked your favorite pages, maybe you will find something new to explore from the
Site Map.
Labels: site updates
Suggestions for Jewish Film Festival Programmers
If you are looking for our newest titles to program in your Jewish film festival, screening series or just looking for films on Jewish themes, we have created a new subject page to help you find what you are looking for:
Suggestions for Jewish Film Festivals.
HOTHOUSE, which won a Special Jury Mention at this year's Sundance Film Festival is included, as is one of our April Bestsellers
JUDITH BUTLER. Check out the new page and be sure to bookmark it and check back for updates.
Labels: festival news, site updates, subject pages
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
New Subject Page for Geography
Geography isn't just about maps and capitals. The need to study areas of the world, the space in which people live and the interactions between people and space, has given rise to many branches of study in geography. In addition to the traditional disciplines of physical and human geography, studying the built environment and how humans interact with their surroundings which now includes the whole globe, environmental geography looks at the interactions between people and places and is an emerging and important field. We have created a new
Geography subject page to help you find films appropriate to studies in geography. Examples include tourism geography in
CAN'T DO IT IN EUROPE, hydrology issues examined in
INHERITANCE, to political ecology in
TAMBOGRANDE, which follows the protest of farmers to gold mining in their Northern Peruvian town.
Labels: geography, site updates, subject pages
Heddy Honigmann Receives Honors at Upcoming Festivals
We are please to announce that Heddy Honigmann will be receiving
Hot Docs'
Outstanding Achievement Award and
San Francisco Film Society will bestow its
Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award during their April festivals
. Both awards are for exceptional, lifelong achievement in documentary. We have launched a new web page about Honigmann in our
Featured Filmmakers section where you can read about her life and career, called by Karen Cooper, Director of Film Forum in New York, "one of the most brilliant documentarians working today."
Labels: awards, festival news, Heddy Honigmann, site updates
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Announcing More Site Updates
Responding to our recent website user survey, we are pleased to announce that copyright and release date information is now listed on a film's title page, along with the running time and pricing information. To see it in action, go to a film page, like
JUDITH BUTLER, and scroll to it.
We have also updated our
e-cards. Want to let a friend know about one of our films? If we have an e-card available, you will find it under a film's "Related Links" or you can just go to the
e-card gallery to browse. Enjoy!
Labels: site updates
Get Press Kits Faster!A big thanks to all who participated in our recent website survey! We received great feedback and are working to incorporate suggestions from our site users. To help you locate a title’s press kit faster, if one is available, you can now find a link to it under “Related Links” on the film’s main page. Check out
NOTES ON MARIE MENKEN, one of our new releases, to see the new link in action.
Labels: press, site updates
New Middle East Catalog Available OnlineCan’t wait for your catalog in the mail? We are pleased to bring you the new Middle East catalog
online and an updated
subject page. The new catalog includes
IRAN: A CINEMATOGRAPHIC REVOLUTION, a survey of Iranian cinema history called “dazzling” by Thom Powers of the Toronto International Film Festival where it screened in 2006. Other recent Middle East additions include
HOTHOUSE, selected for Sundance 2007, and
THE BIBLE UNEARTHED, a four-part series based on the best-selling book
The Bible Revealed which examines archaeological evidence against Biblical stories.
Download your copy now.
Labels: catalogs, site updates, subject pages
New Cultural Anthropology Subject ListAnthropology is a broad field of study so to help you navigate to appropriate First Run/Icarus Films quickly, we are pleased to launch a new
Cultural Anthropology subject page. Titles from the cultural anthropology collection include
ARAB DIARIES, a five-part series focusing on the milestones of life, like marriage and work, of Arab individuals from various countries and notable for providing perspectives from Arab women; the classic
CHRONICLES OF A SUMMER from filmmaking legends Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin, who explored the lives of Parisians during the summer of 1960 while war raged in Algeria in one of the early cinema verité films; and from our new releases,
EVERYTHING’S FINE, the story of Seydou Konaté, the only doctor for 40,000 people in Southern Mali, offering revealing insights into the challenges of health care in Africa today. Check out the new
Cultural Anthropology section.
Labels: anthropology, cultural anthropology, site updates, subject pages
New Subject Page
Films, Videos & DVDs for Business Ethics
We've created a new
Business Ethics Subject Page for this increasingly important field of study and practice. The new page features twenty-one titles covering a variety of issues.
From the acclaimed film
A DECENT FACTORY—which follows Nokia's new "ethical management consultant" on a trip to a supply factory in China—to
SELLING SICKNESS—a highly-praised exploration of the unhealthy relationships between the pharmaceutical industry, advertisers, the FDA, and consumers—this collection of films covers many of the crucial ethical issues facing businesses today.
Labels: business ethics, site updates, subject pages
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