Tristan Dyer's animated short, "The Other Way Out," won the New England Film On-Line Festival's Jury Award in the animation category:  http://newenglandfilm.com/festival/2009/winners

Aron Gaudet & GIta Pullapilly's award winning doc, "The Way We Get By," will be broadcast on PBS's POV on Nov. 9th: http://www.thewaywegetbymovie.com

Also, congratulations to Aron & Gita on their wedding! We wish them many years of love, good health, prosperity and great and meaningful filmmaking!

George Kachadorian's film, SHOOTING BEAUTY, is knocking 'em dead on the festival circuit! Best Audience Awards at IFF, Boston & Phoenix FF, World Premiere at Full Frame. Still making the festival rounds! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=71146290201&ref=mf; http://www.everyonedeservesashot.com

Sean Flynn & Beth Murphy's doc, "The Promise of Freedom" has received full funding from ITVS!  http://www.principlepictures.com

Sean Flynn & Beth Murphy's new doc-in-progress, "What Tomorrow Brings," was selected for IFP's Independent Film Week 2009 and was also selected for their "Good Pitch." Last year, their doc-in-progress, "The Promise of Freedom," won the IFP Film Independent's Fledging Fund Award of 10K for Best Socially Conscious Documentary: http://www.principlepictures.com

Aron Gaudet & Gita Pullapilly's doc THE WAY WE GET BY is on fire at the festivals. So many audience & jury awards!! Also, upcoming NYC premiere!  http://www.thewaywegetbymovie.com

Ben Achtenberg won an international competition to create 30 second PSAs for the UN Int'l. Day in Support of Victims of Torture, for his REFUGE MEDIA PROJECT. http://irct.org/news---media/latest-irct-news/show-news.aspx?M=News&PID=82&NewsID=1865;  http://www.refugemediaproject.org

Tristan Dyer won the 2009 ACM (Alliance for Community Media) Award for Best Non-Professional Animation for his animated short about one woman's use of Ibogaine to treat her heroin addiction. http://www.tristandyer.com

Aron Gaudet & Gita Pullapilly's, THE WAY WE GET BY won BOTH the Feature Jury Prize AND the Audience Award at the 2009 Newport Int'l. Film Festival!!  Wow!! Upcoming screening at SilverDocs! http://www.thewaywegetbymovie.com

Aron Gaudet & Gita Pullapilly's doc, THE WAY WE GET BY is rocking the film festival circuit and winning an award at almost every festival!  Special Jury Prize- SXSW; Audience Award- FULL FRAME and CLEVELAND;  Best Doc at LITTLE ROCK, International premiere at HOT DOCS!  The list goes on...   http://www.thewaywegetbymovie.com.  More screenings at SILVERDOCS and other festivals. And... more great news... film will be broadcast on PBS's POV on November 9th!!

Sean Flynn & Beth Murphy, participated in the selective "THE GOOD PITCH" at this year's HOT DOCS, North America's largest documentary film festival!  (This film won the Fledgling Fund Award, for Best Socially Conscious Doc at IFP, Independent Film Week, 2008 - $10,000). More great news will be announced about this amazing project in the near future. http://www.principlepictures.com; http://www.hotdocs.ca

DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES, (Connect the Docs major sponsor) is a sponsor of DOC CHALLENGE, the International On-Line Short Film Competition, at this year's HOT DOCS. DER's Executive Director, Cynthia Close, is also on HOT DOCS "The Good Pitch" jury. http://www.der.org; http://www.hotdocs.ca

Aimee Aravan, Outreach Coordinator for THE GREENING OF SOUTHIE, is great at what she does! Major piece in the NEW YORKER'S TALK OF THE TOWN: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2009/05/18/090518ta_talk_owen; http://www.greeningofsouthie.com

A huge congratulations to Gita Pulapilly & Aron Guadet. THE WAY WE GET BY is premiering at SXSW, and is one of only eight doc films in competition!!  More festival announcements coming soon... http://www.waywegetbymovie.com

Congratulations to first-time dad, Inbal Goldstein on the birth of his beautiful baby daughter, Alina!

Gita Pulapilly & Aron Gaudet's film, THE WAY WE GET BY received ITVS/LINCS funding. Congratulations! Stay tuned for more great news... http://www.waywegetbymovie.com

CONNECT THE DOCS members have  a great presence at IFF, BOSTON 2009! Screenings:  Aron Gaudet & Gita Pullapilly's film, THE WAY WE GET BY; the editor of CTD member, Justin Francese's film, PLAY IN THE GRAY, Ian McFarland's film, CHIP ON MY SHOULDER; and the film Darren Garrick worked on, BLOOD, SWEAT AND CHEERS.  Also, Sean Flynn is on the panel, FOLLOWERS: HOW FILMMAKERS ARE BUILDING THEIR AUDIENCES ONLINE IN THE 21st CENTURY. http://www.iffboston.org; http://jfrancese.wordpress.com; http://www.chiponmyshoulderfilm.com/; http://cheerleadingfilm.wordpress.com

Kavita & Sauli Pillay are  WGBH's Artists-in Residence  2008/2009 to help complete their film, MY GOOD NAME IS STALIN.  and Chico David Colvard is Artist-in-Residence to complete his film, FAMILY AFFAIR, http://www.c-linefilms.com, http://lab.wgbh.org/filmmakers-residence 

Congratulations to the talented filmmaking couple, Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly, on their engagement!  http://www.waywegetbymovie.com (Gita & Aron were Artists-in-Residents at WGBH for the year 2007/2008.)

Sean Flynn and Beth Murphy's film-in-progress, THE PROMISE OF FREEDOM, won the Fledgling Film Award for socially consious docs at the Sept. 2008 IFP Independent Film Week! They received a $10,000 grant, which is wonderful! Congratulations! http://www.principlepictures.com.

Congratulations to Sean Flynn and Beth Murphy, whose film, BEYOND BELIEF,  was an official selection of  DOKUFEST in Kosovo. The U.S. Embassy is a sponsor of this screening and flew Sean to this festival. http://www.dokufest.com/;  http://www.principlepictures.com.

Congratulations to the fantastic five Connect the Docs members on their films  being selected for  IFP's FILM INDEPENDENT WEEK (formerly the IFP MARKET): Beth Murphy,Sean Flynn and Joel Gardner for their respective films, THE PROMISE OF FREEDOM and SUNLIGHT MAN and Gita Pullapilly and Aron Gaudet for their film, THE WAY WE GET BY,    http://www.principlepictures.com;  http://web.mac.com/joelgardner/Site/Sunlight_Man.html;  http://www.thewaywegetbymovie.com/;  http://www.ifp.org.

Congratulations to DARREN GARNICK, for his doc, HELL DRIVERS: AMERICAN'S ORIGINAL CRASH TEST DUMMIES, http://helldriversmovie.wordpress.com officially selected to screen at the Woods Hole Film Festival, on July 30th, and also at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival and  other festivals. http://www.woodsholefilmfestival.org

Gita Pullapilly and Aron Gaudet showed their 20 minute reel of their film, THE WAY WE GET BUY to 600 chapters of Vietnam Veterans of America, at  the Vietnam Veterans of American Leadership Conference in Greenville, SC, to a standing ovation on July 18th and 19th! Congratulations on the film receiving such an emotional response! http://www.thewaywegetbymovie.com/

Footage  from GARY ROMA's doc-in-progress, FLOSS, http://www.ironfrog.com, of two Wisconsin prisoners attempt to escape using miles of dental floss,  will be broadcast on Showtime's THIS AMERICAN LIFE,  at 10 PM, SUNDAY, MAY 18TH.  EPISODE IS CALLED MAKING HISTORY. FOR SCHEDLUE OF REBROADCASTS AND DESCRIPTION LOG ON TO:  http://www.sho.com/site/thisamericanlife/home.do.