Let's Make This Interactive

This is what Thom Powers always says when he's ready to open up a filmmaker Q&A session to the audience.  And now he's taken this concept to the Web where everyone can join in, via the D-Word.

D-Word co-hosts, Doug Block, Ben Kempas, John Burgan and Marj Safinia send word that there is a new public forum on the site devoted to Powers' nonfiction cinema series Stranger Than Fiction hosted at New York's IFC Center by Powers and Raphaela Neihausen.  The series is in the midst of its 10th year and will host such directors as Doug Pray, Jonathan Demme and Peter Davis this spring season.

The online conversation will reflect the criticism, insider sharing and professional networking (but, alas, not the drinking) that happens every week at STF.  Now you can join in from anywhere to learn how you can start your own local film clubs and screening series and chat about a wide array of topics about the current state of making (and viewing) nonfiction cinema.

The proceedings start right before STF screens Doug Pray's Sundance premiere, Art & Copy this Tuesday.  D-Worders will discuss the intersection between documentary and advertising.  The dedicated Stranger Than Fiction strand on the D-Word site lives here.  (You might want to bookmark.)  Pour yourself a glass of wine and join the conversation.