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DER Podcast – Karim B Haroun on MYSTIC MASS
“I thought by going there and actually taking the time to watch and taking the time to film and taking the time to contemplate the complexity of what is happening, we might have a powerful tool. The...
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New Releases – November 2015
Bitter Honey by Robert Lemelson, color, 81 min, 2015 An intimate and emotionally charged portrait of three polygamous families in Bali, Indonesia. Following these families over a seven year period, the...
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Get to know DER better in December! Spotlight on Curation & Distribution
You may know DER as a film distributor, but this December we’d like to show you that we’re so much more! DER is a 501(c)(3) non-profit aiming to foster community, challenge preconceptions, and...
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“I Am the People” Wins Inaugural John Marshall Award for Contemporary...
If you haven’t heard our big news yet, DER was thrilled to present the first John Marshall Award for Contemporary Ethnographic Media at the Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) this fall! We...
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Get to know DER: Spotlight on Production & Production Support
Welcome to our Spotlight on Production & Production Support, part two in our series to help you get to know DER better this December! Through our Production & Production Support programs, DER...
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Opening and Closing the DER Vault – 1968-2015
In the late 1960s, Lorna Marshall opened an account at a well known storage warehouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts to house the Marshall family’s materials from their Kalahari trips. In the following...
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New Releases – December 2015
Liahona by Talena Sanders, color, 70 min, 2013 Liahona is an experimental documentary examining the culture, history, and lived experience of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, often...
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Get to know DER: Spotlight on Collection Management & Preservation
Welcome to our Spotlight on Collection Management & Preservation, part three in our series to help you get to know DER better this December! Did you know DER is home to some of the most...
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Support Documentary Film – Donate to DER
We hope you’ve enjoyed getting to know DER! Now we are asking for you help, so we can continue to support and advance the best ethnographic and documentary works being made. DER’s program highlights...
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New Releases – January 2016
Peter Voulkos Working Produced by Susan Fanshel and Ann Voulkos, color, 68 min with extras, 2015 Peter Voulkos is the undisputed creative force behind the American Clay Revolution that began in the...
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New Releases – February 2016
Sailing A Sinking Sea by Olivia Wyatt, color, 65 min, 2015 A feature-length experimental documentary exploring the culture of the Moken people of Burma and Thailand. The Moken are a seafaring community...
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New Releases – March 2016
The Drums of Winter – Restored and Remastered Edition by Sarah Elder and Leonard Kamerling, color, 90 min, 1988, restored 2015 Named to the National Film Registry in 2006, this classic of ethnographic...
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Collaborative Ethnography: An Interview with Filmmaker Paul Wolffram
Recently, I took the time to re-connect with DER filmmaker Paul Wolffram to learn more about the collaborative process behind his film, Stori Tumbuna. Stori Tumbuna is about the Lak people in Papua...
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New Releases – April 2016
An American Mosque by David Washburn, 27 min, 2013 When the Islamic Center of Yuba City, California, was burned to the ground, it was the first arson to destroy a mosque in US history. At the time,...
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New Releases – May 2016
The Tentmakers of Cairo by Kim Beamish, 94 min, 2015 The Tentmakers of Cairo offers unprecedented access to a small community of talented craftsmen, known as tentmakers, who practice the uniquely...
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New Releases – June 2016
I Am the People (Je Suis Le Peuple) by Anna Roussillon, 111 min, 2014 As the Egyptian people rise up in Tahrir Square, a rural community in the Nile valley follows the revolution on TV, radio and in...
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New Releases – July 2016
Remembering Yayayi by Pip Deveson, Ian Dunlop, Fred Myers, color, 57 min, 2014 Pintupi elder Marlene Nampitjinpa Spencer reflects on previously unseen archival footage shot by renowned ethnographic...
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New Releases – August 2016
This Kind of Love by Jeanne Hallacy, color, 43 min, 2015 This Kind of Love follows Burmese human rights and LGBT activist, Aung Myo Min, as he returns home after 24 years in exile. Set against...
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New Releases – September 2016
An Autobiography of Michelle Maren by Michel Negroponte and Michelle Maren, color, 81 min, 2015 When the filmmaker Michel Negroponte (Jupiter’s Wife) received an e-mail from a woman who thought she...
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Spotlight On DER’s Summer Interns
Here at DER, we were lucky to have a fantastic group of talented and dedicated interns with us this summer! To honor this passionate group of cinephiles and acknowledge their hard work, we’ve asked...
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