Articles

• A Short Film Manifesto: A Sustainable Future for Activist Media

  by Larry Daressa This essay questions the pre-eminence of long-form, documentary "story-telling" and, more generally, the privileging of documentary content over the context of its use.

• Towards Accountability: An Essay in Collaborative Activist Media Production

  Larry Daressa delivered an abridged version of this paper at Visible Evidence XVIII, New York University, August 13, 2011

• California Newsreel Announces The Results From Two Social Justice Media Surveys
  A Producers' Guide to Digital Rights Management

  Prepared by California Newsreel November, 2009, Revised August. 2010

• Radical Media Practice in the Digital Age

  Remarks by Larry Daressa, California Newsreel, before a graduate seminar on “Politics and Post-Modern Form,” Prof. Jeffrey Skoller, University of California, Berkeley, March 31, 2010

• The Politics of Space, a Space for Politics: California Newsreel - Forty Years at the Site of the Reception

  Presented by Larry Daressa at Visible Evidence XVI, University of Southern California, Los Angeles August 16, 2009

• Before You Shoot: What You Should Know About Educational Distribution

  by California Newsreel

• Educational Film Distribution

  by California Newsreel

• Newsreel at Forty And Zero: The Political Film and Its Audience in The Digital Age

  by Larry Daressa, California Newsreel

• Is Social Change Media a Delusion? California Newsreel at 30 and 2000

  by Larry Daressa, California Newsreel

• Review of Oh Freedom After While

  by Ken Robinson, Associate Professor of Film, Vassar College.

• National Educational Media Network: Content '96. May 16, 1996

  by Larry Daressa, California Newsreel

• Reflections on ITVS

  by Larry Daressa, California Newsreel

• General Principles in Media Literacy

  by Patricia Aufderheide

• Documenting the Movement: California Newsreel Remains at the Center of Social Change

  by Cathleen Rountree, Documentary Magazine

• A Close Reading of Ads: A How-To Guide

  prepared with help from the New Mexico Media Literacy Project

Notes for Viewing African Cinema

• Film Text and Context: Reweaving Africa’s Social Fabric Through Its Contemporary Cinema

  by Mbye Cham, Howard University

• The Hyena's Last Laugh: A conversation with Djibril Diop Mambety

  by N. Frank Ukadike, from TRANSITION 78

• Imagining Alternatives: African Cinema in the New Century

  by African filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno

• Viewing African Cinema: Six Pointers
  African Studies Resources
• Ousmane Sembene : The Life of a Revolutionary Artist

  by Samba Gadjigo, Mount Holyoke College

• Cuban Film Reveals Important Black Cuban History

  by Cornelius Moore, California Newsreel (on AfroCubaWeb site)