Whats the Moving Picture Institute and whats its mission?
The Moving Picture Institute was founded to nurture filmmakers like Evan Maloney, to nurture and inspire filmmakers who care about the issues of American freedom and individual rights. It exists both to produce and distribute films of this sort and to find the talent and nurture them — provide them fellowships and internships and things like that. The institute has offices at the Tribeca Film Center in New York and it has offices in Hollywood. Its funding comes from individual donors. It has a budget that is just over $1 million and it has so far produced several feature-length films. Two of them have appeared at the Tribeca Film Festival: “Freedom’s Fury,” a film about the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and a water polo game that captured the imagination when it came to the struggle against communism; another one is “Hammer & Tickle,” which goes into the power of humor in the struggle against Soviet communism; the “Singing Revolution,” a film about the Estonian revolution of 1997 and how
