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    Screenings & Events

    Thursday, Jul 19 - 7:30pm

    All Our Grievances Are Connected: The Illuminator Collective

    With Jason Fox, Eli Horwatt, & members of The Illuminator Collective

    Exploring the relationship between direct action and movement building.

    Sunday, Jul 22 - 7:30pm

    The Drunkard’s Lament

    With Jim Finn

    The third and castoff Brontë sibling stakes out his own narrative

    Thursday, Jul 26 - 7:30pm

    A Opção (ou: As Rosas da Estrada)

    With Ela Bittencourt

    Exploring Brazil's Marginal Cinema Movement

    Friday, Jul 27 - 7:30pm

    Frozen Revolutions: Harlem Theatre

    With Steve Macfarlane, Rochelle S. Miller, Gary Bolling & George Lee Miles

    Newly resurfaced after being considered lost or unexhibitable for decades, a startling and never-publicly-screened document from 1968 captures Black Power mid praxis.

    Sunday, Jul 29 - 7:30pm

    Mirrored Objects: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

    With Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

    How are we implicated in what we consume visually? How do we participate as partners in the problems and potential of images? 

    Thursday, Aug 2 - 7:30pm

    Tarpaulins

    With Lisa Truttmann and Joshua Gen Solondz

    Exploring Los Angeles through the city's smallest inhabitant, the termite

    Sunday, Aug 5 - 7:30pm

    Visible Symptoms

    With Daniel Mann Elisa Gonzalez, and Daniel Froidevaux

    How are we making our own lands uninhabitable?
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    Workshops & Labs

    Friday, Jul 27 - Sunday, Jul 29

    Sound Ethnographies

    Led by Jen Heuson

    This workshop is a three-day immersion in critical sound making for documentarians, sound artists and scholars.

    Monday, Aug 20 - Friday, Aug 24

    The Podcast School

    Led by Mitra Kaboli

    Develop your audio practice and podcasting vision!

    Friday, Sep 7 - Sunday, Sep 9

    Radical Possibilities: A Workshop Dedicated to Feminist Filmmaking

    Led by Irene Lusztig

    A three-day workshop dedicated to feminist filmmaking

    Saturday, Sep 15 - Sunday, Sep 16

    RADIO BOOT CAMP

    With Sally Herships

    Learn how to produce a radio story from start to finish.
    View Calendar Upcoming Workshops Past Workshops

    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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    UnionDocs is grateful for support from:

    Into My Life

     

    Collaborative Studio film premiering at Tribeca and HotDocs! A rich, overlooked archive paying tribute to the work of a mother-daughter duo

    Learn more here!

    World Records

     

    We’ve launched our new peer-reviewed documentary journal World Records. Volume I, The Documentary Camera, is now online!

    Read it here!
    News
    • Cinema of Gender Transgression Series Now Screening at Anthology Film Archives
    • Now Accepting Applications for Fall Interns!
    • Filmshop – Applications Open for Fall 2018
    • The Human Rights Watch Film Festival NYC kicks off next week!
    • Watch: A Self-Induced Hallucination
    • Support Theory of Everything Podcast!
    • Audio workshop in Monson, Maine September 2–5
    • Deadline for Macktez Summer Stipend closing 7/21
    • The Flaherty film seminar is looking for a new Executive Director
    • RIDM Call for Entries: March 1 to June 15
    • Announcing The Signal to Noise Award for Audio Producers! Apps due 6/28
    • 'Flint is a place' Closing May 27th
    • Border Crossings Application Closing May 23rd
    • Women Make Movies Webinar June 13th
    • Today! We are co-presenting the film programming at HAPPY FAMILY NIGHT MARKET [ @happyfamilymkt ], a day-long event that celebrates the rise and triumph of Asian American cuisine. This all-day marketplace gathers chefs, food writers, and curious eaters to share stories over good food and conversation @99scott_ . Film programs will start at 3PM and feature documentaries from some of our favorite filmmakers that help expound upon the day’s pursuits. The program is varied and dynamic from a joyous and animated stop-motion dance of three mochi, to the story of a rural Indian teenager growing food to feed her family, to the struggle of a young American Muslim who is tasked with taking over his father’s halal slaughterhouse in Queens, each of the programs have been thoughtfully arranged and selected by co-curators Angeline Gragasin [ @angelinegragasin ] and Farihah Zaman [ @brandnewfarihah ] We’re thrilled they selected our very own Special Projects Director, Alison S.M. Kobayashi’s [ @asmkobayashi ] short MUSIC IS MAGIC to screen in the 4:20PM program. Don’t miss this jam-packed day of vendors, artists, artisans, panels and films with an after-party hosted by BUBBLE-T [ @bubble____t ] to follow. All day today - see you there! 🍜📽🎞🍣Today! We are co-presenting the film programming at HAPPY FAMILY NIGHT MARKET [ @happyfamilymkt ], a day-long event that celebrates the rise and triumph of Asian American cuisine. This all-day marketplace gathers chefs, food writers, and curious eaters to share stories over good food and conversation @99scott_ . Film programs will start at 3PM and feature documentaries from some of our favorite filmmakers that help expound upon the day’s pursuits. The program is varied and dynamic from a joyous and animated stop-motion dance of three mochi, to the story of a rural Indian teenager growing food to feed her family, to the struggle of a young American Muslim who is tasked with taking over his father’s halal slaughterhouse in Queens, each of the programs have been thoughtfully arranged and selected by co-curators Angeline Gragasin [ @angelinegragasin ] and Farihah Zaman [ @brandnewfarihah ] We’re thrilled they selected our very own Special Projects Director, Alison S.M. Kobayashi’s [ @asmkobayashi ] short MUSIC IS MAGIC to screen in the 4:20PM program. Don’t miss this jam-packed day of vendors, artists, artisans, panels and films with an after-party hosted by BUBBLE-T [ @bubble____t ] to follow. All day today - see you there! 🍜📽🎞🍣

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    UnionDocs Programs

    • Collaborative Studio
    • Summer Documentary Lab 2018
    • Editing Retreat
    • Intensive Workshops & Seminars
    • World Records Journal
    • Fiscal Sponsorship
    • Roberto Guerra Award
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