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In October 2012, the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar named Anita Reher as Executive Director. Anita Reher was the co-founder of the European Documentary Network (EDN), a membership-based association created in 1996 with more than 1000 members from 60 different countries. Anita helped build this non-profit service organization into the premiere resource for documentary filmmakers in Europe. Anita is also extremely generous with her time and a consummate educator. Case-in-point: she chose to answer our questions while traveling the world on a shooting and research trip.

From time to time, The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture publishes white papers on issues of relevance to the cultural sector. Lawrence Daressa, Co-director of the California Newsreel, wrote a paper entitled, "Towards Accountability: An Essay in Collaborative Activist Media Production," that we are offering as a downloadable pdf.

The time is now. If we don't fully own the absolute necessity to change how we've all been working, we won't be working -- and we won't have the illuminating, inspiring, transforming films that we now enjoy. It's your choice, but action is required.

There is the capacity for many more of us to create and prosper from creative media work. This capacity can also close up and vanish along with our audiences. The canaries are now the size of Big Birds and we somehow are able to ignore them (but that is a subject for a different posts).