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Saturday, Apr 19 - 7:30pm Penumbra and Letter With Evgeny Gusyatinskiy, Inge de Leeuw, Lucila Moctezuma and Eduardo Villanueva Double feature: Penumbra is a portrait of a poor and aged couple waiting for death and filling time with the rituals of routine, while Letter describes Russia as a place inhabited by unconscious prisoners.

Penumbra and Letter

With Evgeny Gusyatinskiy, Inge de Leeuw, Lucila Moctezuma and Eduardo Villanueva Double feature: Penumbra is a portrait of a poor and aged couple waiting for death and filling time with the rituals of routine, while Letter describes Russia as a place inhabited by unconscious prisoners.
Sunday, Apr 27 - 7:30pm Documentary Planning With Tom Davis, Karen Shatzkin, and Sierra Pettengill. This session covers issues of legal rights and clearances, business basics for filmmakers, budgeting, structuring agreements for talent and crew, and more.

Documentary Planning

With Tom Davis, Karen Shatzkin, and Sierra Pettengill. This session covers issues of legal rights and clearances, business basics for filmmakers, budgeting, structuring agreements for talent and crew, and more.

Ukrainian Protest Cinema

With Lesya Kalynska, Olha Onyshko, Vanessa Black, Roxy Toporowych, and Andrij Dobriansky in discussion. Moderated by film historian Yuri Shevchuk. Discussion of the current crisis in Ukraine with filmmakers and Ukrainian activists who have been using their cameras as weapons to tell the story of the people of Maidan.

Documentary Financing

With José Rodriguez, John T. Trigonis, Fred Siegel and Sierra Pettengill. This session will address the eternal question: how to finance your doc? What are the pros and cons of different fundraising models (grants, equity investment, pre-sales, crowdsourcing)?

The Ties that Bind: Documentary and Families

With James Fotopoulos and Rebecca Cleman Life in a rural industrial town: a teenage boy, his family, friends and failed attempt at love are investigated through stark black-and-white photography and static long takes.

Documentary Shooting & Directing

With Oscar-winning filmmaker Ross Kauffman, Malika Zouhali-Worrall, hosted by Zach Heinzerling at AbelCine. Documentary filmmakers produce and shoot in a wide variety of locations under many different practical, financial, technical and legal constraints.
Sunday, May 18 - 7:30pm Documentary Editing With film editor David Teague, Will Cox (Final Frame), and Peter Levin, hosted by Zach Heinzerling. How can documentary directors work effectively with editors, sound designers, and other essential post-production talent? How does a story emerge from a pile of footage?

Documentary Editing

With film editor David Teague, Will Cox (Final Frame), and Peter Levin, hosted by Zach Heinzerling. How can documentary directors work effectively with editors, sound designers, and other essential post-production talent? How does a story emerge from a pile of footage?
Friday, May 30 - 7:30pm The Sochi Project With Rob Hornstra (FOTODOK) and writer/filmmaker Arnold Van Bruggen. An alternative perspective and in-depth reporting on the remarkable region of Sochi, Russia, which sits at the combustible crossroads of war, tourism, and history.

The Sochi Project

With Rob Hornstra (FOTODOK) and writer/filmmaker Arnold Van Bruggen. An alternative perspective and in-depth reporting on the remarkable region of Sochi, Russia, which sits at the combustible crossroads of war, tourism, and history.
Saturday, May 31 - 7:30pm DE CVRATORIBVS. The Dialectics of Care and Confinement With Vesna Madzoski, author of DE CVRATORIBVS, scholar Thomas Zummer, and curator Nova Benway. In this lecture, Vesna Madzoski will offer an overview of problems raised by two documentaries by Jef Cornelis, as well as point out the specificity of Cornelis’ method in filmmaking.

DE CVRATORIBVS. The Dialectics of Care and Confinement

With Vesna Madzoski, author of DE CVRATORIBVS, scholar Thomas Zummer, and curator Nova Benway. In this lecture, Vesna Madzoski will offer an overview of problems raised by two documentaries by Jef Cornelis, as well as point out the specificity of Cornelis’ method in filmmaking.
Sunday, Jun 1 - 7:30pm Macktez’s Ultimate Planning Workshop With Noah Landow and Reed Payne. A class taught using the Macktez “Working Yellow” approach that incorporates our team-customized approach, incorporating elements of Getting Things Done, Zero Inbox, Kaizen, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Checklist Manifesto, and numerous other approaches to efficiency, organization, and productivity.

Macktez’s Ultimate Planning Workshop

With Noah Landow and Reed Payne. A class taught using the Macktez “Working Yellow” approach that incorporates our team-customized approach, incorporating elements of Getting Things Done, Zero Inbox, Kaizen, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Checklist Manifesto, and numerous other approaches to efficiency, organization, and productivity.

Documentary Graphics, Music & Transmedia Campaigns

With Teddy Blanks (CHIPS), T. Griffin (The Quavers), and Marisa Jahn (REV-), hosted by Zachary Heinzerling. How to use graphics, think about music and implement cross-media strategies.
Friday, Jun 6 - 7:30pm Stories You Can’t Tell on the Radio With Anne Heppermann, Scott Gurian, Sally Herships, Ilya Marritz and Shia Levitt. This evening we’ll focus on tales from backstage, between the folds and behind the scenes – the tape, info. and crazy bits that can’t be shared on air.

Stories You Can’t Tell on the Radio

With Anne Heppermann, Scott Gurian, Sally Herships, Ilya Marritz and Shia Levitt. This evening we’ll focus on tales from backstage, between the folds and behind the scenes – the tape, info. and crazy bits that can’t be shared on air.
Saturday, Jun 7 - 7:30pm LIVING LOS SURES: PREVIEW IN THE PARK & PARTY Outdoor Screening at Sternberg Park + Music by Rich Bologna, Juan Wauters & Ashok Kondabolu. A special public preview to celebrate the creation of seven new documentary projects made this year as part of the UnionDocs Collaborative Production Living Los Sures.

LIVING LOS SURES: PREVIEW IN THE PARK & PARTY

Outdoor Screening at Sternberg Park + Music by Rich Bologna, Juan Wauters & Ashok Kondabolu. A special public preview to celebrate the creation of seven new documentary projects made this year as part of the UnionDocs Collaborative Production Living Los Sures.
Sunday, Jun 8 - 7:30pm MK2 Expanded: Another Idea of Cinema in the City With Marin Karmitz, Elisha Karmitz, and Dan Nuxoll (Rooftop Films). Marin Karmitz introduces his rare short NUIT NOIRE, CALCUTTA (1964), and Elisha Karmitz talks about MK2’s expanded cinema projects.

MK2 Expanded: Another Idea of Cinema in the City

With Marin Karmitz, Elisha Karmitz, and Dan Nuxoll (Rooftop Films). Marin Karmitz introduces his rare short NUIT NOIRE, CALCUTTA (1964), and Elisha Karmitz talks about MK2’s expanded cinema projects.
Sunday, Jun 8 - 7:30pm How to Release Your Documentary With Ryan Kampe (Visit Films), Dan Nuxoll (Rooftop Films) and Graham Swindoll (The Cinema Guild), hosted by Sierra Pettengill. How can you find and build audiences for your film? How do you know if your film is best suited for theatrical, broadcast, or both?

How to Release Your Documentary

With Ryan Kampe (Visit Films), Dan Nuxoll (Rooftop Films) and Graham Swindoll (The Cinema Guild), hosted by Sierra Pettengill. How can you find and build audiences for your film? How do you know if your film is best suited for theatrical, broadcast, or both?

NYFVC Graduating Film Student Mixer

Free Reception with Student ID. Mingle and forge connections while also meeting members of the oldest film non profit in NY, the NYFVC whose members represent EAI, Screen Slate, Janus Films, SVA, Maysles Films and more.
Friday, Jun 13 - 7:30pm The Traffic of Illusions With Jean-Christian Bourcart, Pawel Wojtasik, and Nan Goldin. Using photography, writing and moving pictures, Jean-Christian Bourcart explores what constitutes an image: a significant surface that questions our relationship to ourselves, to society, to history, to reality.

The Traffic of Illusions

With Jean-Christian Bourcart, Pawel Wojtasik, and Nan Goldin. Using photography, writing and moving pictures, Jean-Christian Bourcart explores what constitutes an image: a significant surface that questions our relationship to ourselves, to society, to history, to reality.
Monday, Jun 16 - 7:30pm Bridge High + Short Circuit Director Manfred Kirchheimer with Jacob Perlin (Cinema Conservancy) in person. Bridge High examines a passage across a suspension bridge, moving from the country to the city, a half minute trip ­expanded; Short Circuit has a documentary filmmaker begins to question his interactions to the white family and black workers he shares his daily existence with.

Bridge High + Short Circuit

Director Manfred Kirchheimer with Jacob Perlin (Cinema Conservancy) in person. Bridge High examines a passage across a suspension bridge, moving from the country to the city, a half minute trip ­expanded; Short Circuit has a documentary filmmaker begins to question his interactions to the white family and black workers he shares his daily existence with.

When I Walk

With Director Jason DaSilva, Executive Producer Yael Melamede, Aubrey Gallegos (POV). A candid and brave chronicle of one young man’s struggle to adapt to the harsh realities of M.S. while holding onto his personal and creative life.

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