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    Screenings & Events

    Friday, Jun 21 - 7:00pm

    Documentary Fundamentals: PLANNING

    with Elan Bogarin, Jonathan Bogarin and Joannie Lafrenière

    Covering all the basics of creating a production plan for your project.

    Saturday, Jun 22 - 11:00am

    Documentary Fundamentals: Financing

    with Elan Bogarin, Bianca Grimshaw and Justine Nagan

    This session covers all the basics of financing your next Documentary.

    Saturday, Jun 22 - 2:00pm

    Documentary Fundamentals: Shooting and Directing

    with Elan Bogarin and Alejandro Meija

    This session covers all the basics of shooting and directing your next Documentary.

    Saturday, Jun 22 - 4:00pm

    Documentary Fundamentals: Editing

    with Elan Bogarin, Troy Herion and Tom Paul

    This session covers all the workflow of editing your next Documentary.

    Saturday, Jun 22 - 8:00pm

    Shorts After The Flaherty: Action

    with filmmakers from the 2019 Flaherty Film Seminar

    Taking inspiration from the poetics of the human condition to step into a new terrain.

    Sunday, Jun 23 - 2:00pm

    Documentary Fundamentals: Post-Production (Graphics/Music/Archive)

    with Elan Bogarin, Troy Herion & Sean R. Smith

    This session covers all the basics of the post-production process of your next Documentary. From graphics to music to archival materials.

    Sunday, Jun 23 - 4:00pm

    Documentary Fundamentals: Releasing

    with Elan Bogarin, Mia Bruno and Carlos Gutiérrez

    This session covers all the basics of releasing your next Documentary.

    Thursday, Jun 27 - 7:30pm

    BOMB MAGAZINE ORAL HISTORY LIVE: FLAG WARS

    with Linda Goode Bryant

    An early aughts portrait that examines the fallout of a community of gay homebuyers gentrifying a working-class black neighborhood

    Sunday, Jun 30 - 6:00pm

    Without a Cigarette and a Blindfold

    with Tara Mateik

    A performance reimagining the set of the film Valley of the Dolls (1966) based on Jackie Susann’s novel of the same name.
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    Workshops & Labs

    Friday, Jun 21 - Sunday, Jun 23

    Documentary Fundamentals 2019

    with Elan Bogarin

    The fundamentals documentarians need to understand to plan, produce, and release an independent documentary today.

    Monday, Jul 22 - Friday, Jul 26

    Full Spectrum Storytelling Intensive Summer 2019

    Co-presented by AIR

    Learn skills from an interdisciplinary group of specialists, positioning yourself for the bright and exciting future of radio.

    Friday, Jul 26 - Sunday, Jul 28

    Voices Carry: Creative Sound Recording

    Led by Latham Zearfoss

    A three-day intensive on strategies for using vocals - broadly defined - as a material in sound-based creative work.

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    Productions

    Say Something Bunny!

    An immersive performance based on an unforgettable amateur audio recording made over 60 years ago.

    Living Los Sures

    An expansive documentary project about the Southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

    Documenting Mythologies

    A simple escape from the city becomes the frame for a series of collaborative video essays.

    Inductive Thread

    An investigation of myth in contemporary society

    The Commons Berlin

    The Commons describes the space where private spheres intersect - where the relationship of the one to the many, the individual to the collective, is negotiated.

    The Commons Radio

    A monthly series broadcast on WKCR 89.9 fm in 2005.
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    World Records Vol 2 Now Online!

    Take a look at World Records Vol 2 Ways of Organizing!

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    SAY SOMETHING BUNNY!

     

    An immersive performance based on an unforgettable amateur audio recording made over 60 years ago.

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    News
    • CoLAB Alum Colleen Cassingham & Casey Carter Awarded in Hong Kong Film Art International Film Festival
    • Tribeca Film Institute Selects SDL Alum D'Angelo Madsen Minax as 2019 All Access Recipient
    • Apply to join Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective - Deadline July 1
    • Selected Experimental and Animated Works from the Women's Film Preservation Fund | Series at Anthology
    • Call for Entries: 35th Annual IDA Documentary Awards + IDA Awards Spotlight — Deadline: June 28th!
    • DCTV Spring Screening Series | Special Offer for UnionDocs Members!
    • Logan Nonfiction Program Fall 2019 Fellowship - Apply by June 15!
    • Meerkat Media Seeking Experienced Freelancers to Join their Team - Rolling Deadline
    • Sheffield Doc Fest announce their 2019 lineup!
    • 2018 CoLAB films, "Sandwiched" and "Narmin's Birthday" premiere at The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival!
    • Firelight Media's Documentary Lab Open Call - Apply by June 17!
    • Sheffield Doc/Fest Announces Full Program! Get your passes June 6-11.
    • Apply now for the Sarah Jacobson Film Grant; Deadline 6/1
    • Apply for POV Spark's African Interactive Art Residency – Deadline 5/12
    • LAST CALL! Join us for one of our most coveted programs of the year, DOCUMENTARY FUNDAMENTALS! Our annual six-part series that teaches nuts and bolts of feature documentary filmmaking. We’ll guide you through the entire trajectory of a recent feature documentary hit, from the early planning stages, to shooting, producing, post-production and distribution. It’s the perfect primer to help you launch a new project with a full awareness of the landscape ahead. This year we’re following the lead of Filmmaker Elan Bogarin [ @elanbogarin ](recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film), and the path of her recent hit 306 Hollywood [ @306hollywood ] which had its World Premiere at Sundance Film Festival [ @sundanceorg ] , a heap of festival screenings to follow, a successful theatrical release, and national broadcast with POV [ @povdocs ]. She’s brought together experts from the field and many from this project to provide both a general tour of key concepts, and a specific case-study of how they made it through each step of the way. Follow along this weekend with a SERIES PASS (6 session for $125), or just pop in for an area where you need help with a single session ticket to ask the questions you need to help move your own work forward. Featured guest instructors include: Jonathan Bogarin (306 Hollywood), Bianca Grimshaw (Gray Krauss Sandler Des Rochers) Joannie Lafrenière (The Woman Who Saw The Bear), Justine Nagan (POV, @kartemquin Films), Alejandro Mejia(306 Hollywood), Troy Herion (The Hottest August, 306 Hollywood), Tom Paul (The Wolfpack, The Big Sick, Cartel Land, Weiner), Sean R. Smith (The Jinx, The Big Sick), Mia Bruno (306 Hollywood) and Carlos A. Gutiérrez (@cinematropical ). REGISTER TODAY and join us this weekend to catch this great film, and discover how it came to be. . . . #documentary #documentaryfundamentals #docfundamentals #documentaryfilmmaking #independentfilmmaker #independentfilmmaking #indiefilmLAST CALL! Join us for one of our most coveted programs of the year, DOCUMENTARY FUNDAMENTALS! Our annual six-part series that teaches nuts and bolts of feature documentary filmmaking. We’ll guide you through the entire trajectory of a recent feature documentary hit, from the early planning stages, to shooting, producing, post-production and distribution. It’s the perfect primer to help you launch a new project with a full awareness of the landscape ahead. This year we’re following the lead of Filmmaker Elan Bogarin [ @elanbogarin ](recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film), and the path of her recent hit 306 Hollywood [ @306hollywood ] which had its World Premiere at Sundance Film Festival [ @sundanceorg ] , a heap of festival screenings to follow, a successful theatrical release, and national broadcast with POV [ @povdocs ]. She’s brought together experts from the field and many from this project to provide both a general tour of key concepts, and a specific case-study of how they made it through each step of the way. Follow along this weekend with a SERIES PASS (6 session for $125), or just pop in for an area where you need help with a single session ticket to ask the questions you need to help move your own work forward. Featured guest instructors include: Jonathan Bogarin (306 Hollywood), Bianca Grimshaw (Gray Krauss Sandler Des Rochers) Joannie Lafrenière (The Woman Who Saw The Bear), Justine Nagan (POV, @kartemquin Films), Alejandro Mejia(306 Hollywood), Troy Herion (The Hottest August, 306 Hollywood), Tom Paul (The Wolfpack, The Big Sick, Cartel Land, Weiner), Sean R. Smith (The Jinx, The Big Sick), Mia Bruno (306 Hollywood) and Carlos A. Gutiérrez (@cinematropical ). REGISTER TODAY and join us this weekend to catch this great film, and discover how it came to be. . . . #documentary #documentaryfundamentals #docfundamentals #documentaryfilmmaking #independentfilmmaker #independentfilmmaking #indiefilm

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