Hisani DuBose has been selected as the Best Director of 2005 and her film as Best Documentary by Kam Williams, writing his year end “Blacktrospective” in the African American Literature Book Club, December Newsletter. Congratulations to Mme DuBose!

She will also be part of a one hour discussion of the film on WBAI, a major New York City public affairs station, right after the first of the year.

IndiePix will be a sponsor of the Full Frame Documentary Festival co-hosted by Duke University and the New York Times in April of 2006. The theme of this year’s festival is “Class in America” — a very important, topical and timely theme and the call for entries has already gone out. We have encouraged one of our special films, Vanishing Black Male as an entry in this festival. We are building our documentary collection rapidly and look forward to meeting many new documentary filmmakers at this event.

IndiePix will be a sponsor of the South by SouthWest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas in March of 2006. Our sponsorship program includes the usual ads, but we will also be in the goodie bags for all attendees with a special CD-ROM “Intro to IndiePix” and we will be hosting a booth at the exhibition floor. We’re looking forward to meeting filmmakers and the film fan! Please come by the booth to learn more about what IndiePix is doing. And watch this space for some neat announcements that we will make shortly after the new year!

This is a wonderful story, produced by Frances Beatty, a senior curator at the Feigen Gallery here in New York, who knew and worked with Ray Johnson for several years. The thing I like most about this film — besides giving a great view of this character — is the insight into the art community of NYC’s East Village in the early 80’s. What a bright shining moment this was!

There are several other titles that focus on this era. Especially see The Nomi Song about Klaus Nomi from this same era. Also see Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns and Wild Style.