All 18 articles by Patricia Aufderheide

• 02 Nov 11

• Culture

  Documenting Social Justice

  Kartemquin Films marks a milestone--and remains as relevant as ever. MORE »

• 17 Jun 08

• Culture

  P.O.V.: A Home For Homeless Films

  P.O.V. is one of those occasional reminders that public broadcasting matters. Every year, like its complementary... MORE »

• 15 Feb 08

• Features

  Apocalyptic Activism at Sundance

  The Sundance Film Festival is now the most important U.S. market for independent film. Because of the... MORE »

• 18 Jan 08

• Culture

  Save the Dramatic Chipmunk

  When college kids make mashups of Hollywood movies, do they violate the law? Not necessarily, according to a... MORE »

• 12 Mar 07

• Culture

  Is Wikipedia the New Town Hall?

  Public broadcasting everywhere is in crisis, and in part it's because technology seems to be turning pubcasters into... MORE »

• 17 Feb 06

• Features

  Sundance Docs 2006

  Have the marketplace successes of Michael Moore (Fahrenheit 9/11) and Robert Greenwald (Outfoxed, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low... MORE »

• 21 Apr 05

• Features

  Too Much Media

  Our media environment is very noisy, abundant, even polluted. Columbia journalism professor Todd Gitlin calls it “media unlimited.”... MORE »

• 28 Jan 05

• Culture

  Docs Rock Sundance

  “We’re 21, which is usually thought of as the age of consent,” Robert Redford said at the opening... MORE »

• 25 Jan 05

• Culture

  Copywrongs

  Budding filmmaker Jonathan Caouette spent$218 to make a movie on his Macintosh about his dysfunc-tional family, Tarnation. It... MORE »

• 14 Jun 04

• Culture

  Farmingville Lessons

  When Carlos Sandoval—a Manhattan lawyer of Latino heritage—read while vacationing in Long Island about violence against... MORE »

• 21 Apr 04

• Culture

  Doc of Hazzard

  There’s a lot of story in Love and Diane, a frank, unaffected look inside one battered African-American... MORE »

• 18 Mar 04

• Culture

  The Untold Tales

  When Naima married Hatem, she expected to leave the tragic past behind in East Jerusalem. She never thought... MORE »

• 05 Feb 04

• Culture

  Sundance 2004

  The Sundance Film Festival is part high school (did you get invited to the party?), part bazaar (check... MORE »

• 03 Nov 03

• Features

  Media Forecast is Hazy

  It’s bad weather in the communications industry, and not just for progressive media makers. These days, most... MORE »

• 01 Jul 03

• Culture

  Terror and Radicalism

  It’s hard for many veteran leftists to uncurl their lips on hearing the phrase “Weather Underground.” A... MORE »

• 24 Mar 03

• Features

  The Holy Grail

  The crusade for media reform will face serious obstacles MORE »

• 17 Jan 03

• Features

  Music for the Masses

  When Lester Chambers stepped onto the stage to galvanize the audience with “People Get Ready,” his band included... MORE »