Lots of good stuff going on and a few important deadlines to alert you to:

- My friends over at the Center for Social Media have been biizzzyy – they have just a released a green code for filmmakers, Code of Best Practices in Sustainable Filmmaking, to assist you in greening your productions, and a white paper on public media, Public Media 2.0: Dynamic, Engaged Publics. I need to sit down with the white paper myself, but I’m very curious to hear what kinds of thoughts they have brought together on the future of public media.

- The deadline to register for the International Documentary Challenge is approaching. The event takes place from March 5 – 9. I’ll be screening submissions again this year, so make me something awesome to watch!

- For those at Big Sky this week (I wish I were!), please let me know if you had a chance to see Dianna Dilworth’s Mellodrama. There is an interesting interview with the filmmaker over at Rhizome, an organization that I love! They are into some wonderfully cutting edge art and technology.

- A new Chris Eyre movie launches the next Native American Film and Video Festival, March 26-29. We Shall Remain: Trail of Tears, “explores the resolve and resilience of the Cherokee Nation, who resisted removal from their homelands in the Southeast in every way they knew.” Eyre has worked mostly in narrative (Smoke Signals, Skins, A Thousand Roads) but I have confidence that his documentary skills are sharp. If you are in NYC, the screening is free, just reserve your seat.

- For all of you folks who can’t wrap your brain around how documentaries make change, a story from the aftermath of Daniel Junge’s They Killed Sister Dorothy, the grand prize winner from last year’s SXSW. “Three people, including two gunmen, are in jail for her killing. But one of the ranchers suspected of ordering the murder had his conviction overturned last year and another, Regivaldo Pereira Galvao, was arrested only last month and now awaits trial. ‘The film has been very influential in the rearrest of Regivaldo,’ David Stang told Reuters at the World Social Forum.” Read the article>>

- March 13 is the deadline to apply for fellowships to attend the The Flaherty Seminar. If you haven’t been and you love docs, go!