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    Screenings & Events

    Thursday, Jun 21 - 7:30pm

    From The Vault: Intro to Archiving and Preservation for Film + Video

    With Kelly Haydon, Bill Seery, Rufus de Rham, Caroline Gil and Pamela Cruz

    Get a handle on the basics of film preservation for film and video!

    Friday, Jun 22 - 7:00pm

    Documentary Fundamentals: Planning

    With Lana Wilson, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon and Innes Smolansky

    All the basics of planning your next documentary. From issues of legal rights to business basics, budgeting, and structuring agreements for talent and crew.

    Friday, Jun 22 - 7:30pm

    UNDO x ROOFTOP: The Gospel of Eureka

    Co-presented with Rooftop Films

    The devil themself presides over a southern town as its residents engage in Passion Plays and drag performances.

    Friday, Jun 22 - 9:00pm

    Screening of The Departure with Lana Wilson

    With Lana Wilson

    What makes life worth living?

    Saturday, Jun 23 - 11:00am

    Documentary Fundamentals: Financing

    With Lana Wilson, Maxyne Franklin, Kelsey Koenig, José F. Rodriguez, and Jeff Seelbach

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

    Saturday, Jun 23 - 2:00pm

    Documentary Fundamentals: Shooting and Directing

    With Lana Wilson, Stephen Maing and Emily Topper

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

    Saturday, Jun 23 - 4:00pm

    Documentary Fundamentals: Editing and Sound Design

    With Lana Wilson, Penelope Falk and Ruy Garcia

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

    Saturday, Jun 23 - 7:30pm

    Shorts After the Flaherty: The Necessary Image

    With filmmakers from this year's Flaherty Seminar

    A selection of shorts from the 2018 Flaherty Seminar

    Sunday, Jun 24 - 2:00pm

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

    With Lana Wilson, Penny Lane, Katya Mihailova and Seth Ricart

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

    Sunday, Jun 24 - 5:00pm

    Documentary Fundamentals: Releasing

    With Lana Wilson, Jason Ishikawa, Susan Norget, Gabriele Caroti and John Von Thaden

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

    Wednesday, Jun 27 - 8:00pm

    UNDO x ROOFTOP: Dangerous Documentaries

    Co-presented with Rooftop Films

    A free evening of short films made by people risking their lives for their craft.

    Saturday, Jun 30 - 7:45pm

    UNDO x ROOFTOP: New York Non-Fiction

    Co-presented with Rooftop Films

    There are 8 million amazing stories in NYC.

    Sunday, Jul 22 - 7:30pm

    The Drunkard’s Lament

    With Jim Finn

    The third and castoff Brontë sibling stakes out his own narrative
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    Workshops & Labs

    Friday, Jun 22 - Sunday, Jun 24

    Documentary Fundamentals 2018

    With Lana Wilson

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

    Monday, Jun 25 - Friday, Jun 29

    Full Spectrum Storytelling Intensive Summer 2018

    co-presented by AIR

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

    Friday, Jul 13 - Sunday, Jul 15

    Worlds Made Real: Storytelling for Immersive Documentary

    Led by Marco Castro Cosio

    A three-day intensive on the theory and practice of interactive story-telling

    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.
    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
    • The Human Rights Watch Film Festival NYC kicks off next week!
    • Watch: A Self-Induced Hallucination
    • IDFA Joins WMM & EDN via Webinar!
    • 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
    • New Voices Scholarship presented by AIR x ThirdCoast Festival - Due by May 31
    • Rooftop Films Summer Series Begins May 19th
    • BRIC Arts Media Script Submissions Close June 10th
    • Tonight! HOLY FLUIDS AND ABSENT WOUNDS asks how misconceptions of the female body shape the cultural position of women. Through this program of seven shorts organized with filmmaker & curator Ruth Somalo we’ll look at bodily fluids and how — like emotions — they flow, seep, and infiltrate. The program features the work of seven filmmakers that deal with the female body, its secretions, its functions and its representation. This includes, Vanessa Renwick’s [ @vorenwick ] visceral response to surviving a near-fatal case of toxic shock syndrome, Vicky Smith’s tactile animated 16mm shorts, and Somalo’s video Monthly Ritual, an exorcism of the historical, patriarchal shame and perceived taboos about the female body. Somalo will be in attendance to guide a conversation with filmmakers Vicky Smith, and Vanessa Renwick following the program! Come through and join the discussion!Tonight! HOLY FLUIDS AND ABSENT WOUNDS asks how misconceptions of the female body shape the cultural position of women. Through this program of seven shorts organized with filmmaker & curator Ruth Somalo we’ll look at bodily fluids and how — like emotions — they flow, seep, and infiltrate. The program features the work of seven filmmakers that deal with the female body, its secretions, its functions and its representation. This includes, Vanessa Renwick’s [ @vorenwick ] visceral response to surviving a near-fatal case of toxic shock syndrome, Vicky Smith’s tactile animated 16mm shorts, and Somalo’s video Monthly Ritual, an exorcism of the historical, patriarchal shame and perceived taboos about the female body. Somalo will be in attendance to guide a conversation with filmmakers Vicky Smith, and Vanessa Renwick following the program! Come through and join the discussion!

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    UnionDocs Programs

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    • Editing Retreat
    • Intensive Workshops & Seminars
    • World Records Journal
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    • Roberto Guerra Award
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