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Our Man in Pakistan: The Trip Home

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Guest blogger Bart Weiss is director of the Video Association of Dallas. This is his last post from Pakistan, where he participated in the American Documentary Showcase. The flight from Lahore to Dubai was pretty much uneventful. Either that or I was too tired to remember. When traveling with the State Department, you have people [...]

Our Man in Pakistan: On Guard

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Guest blogger Bart Weiss is director of the Video Association of Dallas. He’ll be checking in from Pakistan, where he’s participating in the American Documentary Showcase. After the high and excitement of last night’s dinner and meeting,  we thought nothing could top that. Then we headed out for the Interactive Resource Center. All along, we [...]

Our Man in Pakistan: Talk and Tea

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Guest blogger Bart Weiss is director of the Video Association of Dallas. He’ll be checking in from Pakistan, where he’s participating in the American Documentary Showcase. Today was perhaps our best day in Pakistan. The weather was great, and we had a great workshop at Punjab University. It was nice to have basically all day, [...]

Our Man in Pakistan: On to Lahore

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Guest blogger Bart Weiss is director of the Video Association of Dallas. He’ll be checking in from Pakistan, where he’s participating in the American Documentary Showcase. He sent in this post and the pictures above late Wednesday night. This morning, we moved from Karachi to Lahore, and what a difference a plane ride makes. Karachi [...]

Our Man in Pakistan: Day 3

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Guest blogger Bart Weiss is director of the Video Association of Dallas. He’ll be checking in from Pakistan, where he’s participating in the American Documentary Showcase. He sent in this post on Monday. Today we started at the U.S. consulate to get a security briefing from the Regional Security Officer (RSO). This is the guy [...]

Bart Weiss Checks in from Hungary

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Guest blogger Bart Weiss is director of VideoFest. He sends this report from his trip to Poland to attend the international public television conference INPUT. Click here to read his previous entry. The week at the INPUT conference of international public TV producers was great but exhausting. When I go to most festivals, I go on a [...]

When Public TV is for a Different Public

Guest blogger Bart Weiss is director of VideoFest. As director of VideoFest (the event formally known as the Dallas Video Festival) I am always on the lookout for fascinating, innovative programs for the fest. Several years ago I happened on a conference called INPUT, which is an international public television conference. It’s kind of like [...]

New Frame of Mind Episodes on KERA

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It’s been two months since the Dallas Video Festival of 2008, and Bart Weiss knows you must be missing it already since a whole new year is under way. Guess what he has done for you . . . Close but wrong, so I’ll just tell you. Two new Frame of Mind episodes will air [...]

Dallas Video Fest: Day of Decisions

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Guest blogger Bart Weiss is Director of the Dallas Video Festival and president of Video Association of Dallas. This post is adapted from my column “bart chat,” which is part of videofest.news a weekly e-mail newsletter the Video Association sends out. In addition to the great blog that KERA is doing here, you can get [...]

Film Festivals: Dallas Video Festival Changes Dates

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Guest blogger Bart Weiss is Director of the Dallas Video Festival and president of Video Association of Dallas. Forgive me for not posting in the last several days. I have been waiting to make an announcement. And the announcement is: we have changed the dates of the Dallas Video Festival this year from October 3-5 [...]

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