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Sunday, Jun 26 - 7:30pm DOCUMENTARY FUNDAMENTALS: Graphics, Music, Archive With Rosemary Rotondi, Penny Lane and Robert Miller. Hosted by David Felix Sutcliffe and Christopher St. John This session will dig into graphics, music and archival issues that come together during post production.

DOCUMENTARY FUNDAMENTALS: Graphics, Music, Archive

With Rosemary Rotondi, Penny Lane and Robert Miller. Hosted by David Felix Sutcliffe and Christopher St. John This session will dig into graphics, music and archival issues that come together during post production.
Saturday, Jun 25 - 7:30pm Shorts after the Flaherty Seminar Kidlat Tahimik, Jon Dieringer, Josh Solondz, and G. Anthony Svatek will be in attendance for discussion following the program.
organized by Steve Holmgren
Event followed by reception in backyard If spectacle demands a taut cinema, with no time for digression, the 2016 Flaherty Seminar is dedicated to a cinema of wandering, of curiosity and wonder. As these films show, cinema at play is not aimless or fanciful but open—the kind of open-endedness that exists in any system with room for variation.

Shorts after the Flaherty Seminar

Kidlat Tahimik, Jon Dieringer, Josh Solondz, and G. Anthony Svatek will be in attendance for discussion following the program.
organized by Steve Holmgren
Event followed by reception in backyard If spectacle demands a taut cinema, with no time for digression, the 2016 Flaherty Seminar is dedicated to a cinema of wandering, of curiosity and wonder. As these films show, cinema at play is not aimless or fanciful but open—the kind of open-endedness that exists in any system with room for variation.
Saturday, Jun 25 - 7:30pm DOCUMENTARY FUNDAMENTALS: FINANCING With Elise McCave, José Rodríguez and Tamir Muhammad. Hosted by David Felix Sutcliffe and Christopher St. John Budgeting, how to find and successfully apply for grants, tips and tools for crowdfunding and other approaches to getting funded will be discussed at this can’t-miss session.

DOCUMENTARY FUNDAMENTALS: FINANCING

With Elise McCave, José Rodríguez and Tamir Muhammad. Hosted by David Felix Sutcliffe and Christopher St. John Budgeting, how to find and successfully apply for grants, tips and tools for crowdfunding and other approaches to getting funded will be discussed at this can’t-miss session.

DOCUMENTARY FUNDAMENTALS: DIRECTING AND SHOOTING

With Malika Zouhali-Worrall. Hosted by David Felix Sutcliffe and Christopher St. John Documentary filmmakers produce and shoot in a wide variety of locations under many different practical, financial, technical and legal constraints. What kind of equipment do you need? Who do you need on your production team?

DOCUMENTARY FUNDAMENTALS: EDITING

With editors Mona Davis and Nyneve Laura Minnear and colorist Eric Alvarado. Hosted by David Felix Sutcliffe and Christopher St. John How can documentary directors work effectively with editors, sound designers, and other essential post-production talent?
Friday, Jun 24 - 7:30pm DOCUMENTARY FUNDAMENTALS: PLANNING With attorney Fernando Ramirez, filmmaker Yoruba Richen and series hosts David Felix Sutcliffe and Christopher St. John This session covers issues of legal rights and clearances, business basics for filmmakers, budgeting, structuring agreements for talent and crew, and more.

DOCUMENTARY FUNDAMENTALS: PLANNING

With attorney Fernando Ramirez, filmmaker Yoruba Richen and series hosts David Felix Sutcliffe and Christopher St. John This session covers issues of legal rights and clearances, business basics for filmmakers, budgeting, structuring agreements for talent and crew, and more.
Sunday, Jun 12 - 7:30pm DIE JIM CROW Fury Young and James N. Kienitz Wilkins will be in attendance for Q+A following the program. Four short films with Fury Young—a poet and activist who intertwines music, poetry, filmmaking, politics, and history—to examine themes and processes leading to his ambitious Die Jim Crow project, a music album by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated black songwriters from across the country.

DIE JIM CROW

Fury Young and James N. Kienitz Wilkins will be in attendance for Q+A following the program. Four short films with Fury Young—a poet and activist who intertwines music, poetry, filmmaking, politics, and history—to examine themes and processes leading to his ambitious Die Jim Crow project, a music album by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated black songwriters from across the country.
Thursday, Jun 9 - 7:30pm Shorts from The Meerkat Media Collective Part of the series BK@24fps. Filmmakers from Meerkat Media Collective in attendance for discussion following the program. These short documentaries reflect on the group’s unique creative collaboration and consensus process.

Shorts from The Meerkat Media Collective

Part of the series BK@24fps. Filmmakers from Meerkat Media Collective in attendance for discussion following the program. These short documentaries reflect on the group’s unique creative collaboration and consensus process.
Saturday, Jun 4 - 7:30pm 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.

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.
Thursday, Jun 2 - 7:30pm 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.

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.
Friday, May 20 - 10:00am Cinematography Weekend Intensive: Higher Visions within Lower Budgets With Yoni Brook The fluidity between fiction and documentary filmmaking, and how techniques from each genre can be applied toward the other.

Cinematography Weekend Intensive: Higher Visions within Lower Budgets

With Yoni Brook The fluidity between fiction and documentary filmmaking, and how techniques from each genre can be applied toward the other.
Thursday, May 19 - 7:30pm 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.

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.

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