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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.
Sunday, May 1 - 7:30pm 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.

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.
Friday, Apr 22 - 7:30pm 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.

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.
Friday, Apr 15 - 10:00am Interactive Documentary and VR: Designing the Digital Documentary With Sean Flynn Design strategies and production/distribution processes for making interactive, participatory and immersive narratives, including on emerging VR platforms like the Oculus Rift.

Interactive Documentary and VR: Designing the Digital Documentary

With Sean Flynn Design strategies and production/distribution processes for making interactive, participatory and immersive narratives, including on emerging VR platforms like the Oculus Rift.

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.
Friday, Apr 1 - 7:30pm 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.

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.
Sunday, Mar 20 - 7:30pm 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.

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.
Thursday, Mar 10 - 7:30pm BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION Q&A with Dir Stanley Nelson The first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails.

BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION

Q&A with Dir Stanley Nelson The first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails.

The Closer We Get

NY Premiere A powerful and exquisitely-shot autobiographical portrait of loyalty, broken dreams and redemption told by its director—reluctantly-dutiful daughter Karen, who takes you under the skin of the household she returns to for this long goodbye.

THE ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE

With Roger Beebe, Ben Coonley and Jim Finn The persistent Romantic ideal finds itself reinforced by another supposedly outdated project: the Modernist desire to “Make it New!” Experimental film, in stressing a (problematic) ideology of innovation and novelty rather than tradition and influence, creates an environment in which avowing influence and the many borrowings from tradition can produce considerable anxiety.

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