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Collaborative Studio Preview in the Park + Party: Just To Get By

Twelve fellows in the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio (CoLAB) have developed short documentaries for a new project entitled, JUST TO GET BY. This collection focuses on the creative solutions and exceptional sacrifices made ordinary at a time in NYC when, by many measures, inequality is increasing.

Radio Diaries: Diary of a Saudi Girl

Presented by Sarah Kate Kramer & Joe Richman for Radio Diaries In this program, Radio Diaries will pull back the curtain on the unique process of producing audio diaries, and will present their latest diary, from a young woman in Saudi Arabia, in its entirety.

The City Machine (Máquina de Cidade)

Federico Windhausen and Paula Halperin will be in attendance for a Q&A following the program. A film about the “contradictions” of Brazil’s new national capital, co-written by a filmmaker, an architect, and a film critic.

Every Fold Matters

Presented by the Workers Unite Film Festival A live performance with film that looks at the charged, intimate, unseen and underpaid work of cleaning other people’s clothes in a public space.

I Am Still Here (Sigo Siendo)

Q&A with Director Javier Corcuera Sigo Siendo is about music but not a story just about musicians, is a film about a hidden country.

Brooklyn Barrio: Short Films Inspired by Los Sures

This event will take place at Metrograph. Sebastian Diaz will be present for Q+A after the program. A collection of award-winning short documentaries by fellows in the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio that were inspired by Diego Echeverria’s documentary Los Sures from 1984.

Long Story Short

Co-presented by The Standby Program Long Story Short explores the rise of poverty and income inequality in the US, using tools of the sharing economy to amplify the voices of those most displaced and dispossessed by it.

Cursed Be Your Name, Liberty

Presented by Dirty Looks Between 1989 and 1995 over a hundred young Cubans willingly contracted HIV by injecting themselves with each other’s blood. This was an act of political suicide, a protest against a regime that oppressed them with systematic police brutality and dogmatic ideology. Maldito Sea Tu Nombre, Libertad is a raw and urgent document of this phenomenon.

IN THE COMPANY OF MEN

Films by William Greaves, Nathan Silver & Mike Ott How is masculinity performed? A screening of films by William Greaves, Nathan Silver and Mike Ott, which use dramatization, role­-playing and self­-presentation to investigate the American male, now and then.

Los Sures at Metrograph – Final Days!

With director Diego Echeverría and other special guests. Los Sures skillfully represents the challenges residents of the Southside faced: poverty, drugs, gang violence, crime, abandoned real estate, racial tension, single-parent homes, and inadequate local resources.

The Word Made Flesh – A Night with João Vieira Torres

Q&A with João Vieira Torres As a Brazilian artist working in France, João Vieira Torres is keenly aware of the borders imposed upon him by his identity. More importantly, however, he understands that borders only exist to be transgressed.

SHERPA: Trouble on Everest

Conversation w/ Vice President of Discovery Channel This film looks at how Mount Everest’s Sherpa community united in grief and anger to reclaim the mountain following this devastating avalanche in 2014, killing 16 Sherpas.

APRIL FOOLS! TRUTH AND LIES IN DOCUMENTARY FILM WITH PENNY LANE

Conversation with Penny Lane and moderated by Malika Zouhali-Worrall. Director Penny Lane takes us on a raucous journey through tales of mermaids, conspiracy theories, quack doctors, and her own recent “mostly-true” film, NUTS! (Sundance 2016) to explore why we believe what documentaries tell us, and the common creative liberties most documentary filmmakers won’t admit to having taken in order to tell a good story.

CAO: Short films by Cao Guimarães

Conversation with Cao Guimarães and Moacir dos Anjos In conjunction with the upcoming Cao Guimarães first solo exhibition in New York and the publication of the monograph book Cao, UnionDocs, Cinema Tropical and Galeria Nara Roesler, present a special evening with the acclaimed Brazilian artist.

Julio of Jackson Heights

Q&A with Director Richard Shpuntoff The story of how a handful of people – Julio’s friends and family – decided that they would not accept the official police report, and learned how to organize, ultimately bringing their case to the attention of then Mayor Dinkins.

Theatre Of The World: Videos And Installation Works By Salomé Lamas

Conversation with Salomé Lamas and Mónica Savirón The work of Salomé Lamas aims to redefine non-fiction filmmaking. Her cubistic editing, subjective camera, and unassuming attitude are not interested in changing facts, not even in documenting them. Instead, her works push the spectator to create their own new thoughts and discourses.

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