Coming Soon: DER Direct
We’re building a new streaming home for our collection. Today, we’re sharing its name: DER Direct. Once live, DER Direct will bring our full catalog of over 900 titles together in one place for the first time, streaming directly from us to you.
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Responsible, Reciprocal and Relevant Filmmaking: A conversation with Ton Otto about his Baluan Trilogy
Ahead of the upcoming release of the final film in the Baluan Trilogy, On Behalf of the Living, we invited anthropologist Ton Otto to talk about his decades-long experience with film as a research tool and how filmmaking became a central part of his relationship with the Baluan Islanders, one of mutuality and respect.
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Returning to Nyae Nyae: Community Connection Through Film Repatriation
In October 2024, DER Executive Director Alice Apley and Technical and Creative Director Frank Aveni had the honor of traveling to southern Africa as part of a film repatriation initiative.
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DER Partners with ORIAS to Promote Media Literacy Learning
In collaboration with the Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) at UC Berkeley and 25 participating federally funded centers for area studies at universities across the country, DER launched an online film program for K-12 teachers in 2023 with the dual goals of providing teachers with resources and tools to promote film literacy and introducing K-12 resource centers and teachers to the DER catalog.
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DER Filmmakers Dish on Indie Distribution
In June, DER hosted our first in-person event since the pandemic, welcoming fiscally sponsored filmmakers and friends to the DER office for an intimate discussion over lunch.
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Intersecting Lives: An Interview with Olivier Pollet and Kristian Lasslett
Recently, we interviewed filmmaker Olivier Pollet and Professor Kristian Lasslett about the making of the online platform The Colonial Syndrome, a companion to their film Ophir.
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