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SUMMARY:NYC Filmmakers Gathering: Next Steps Now!
DESCRIPTION:In light of the election results and to transform our panic and fear into resolve and action\, we invite filmmakers and documentary producers to gather. Now more than ever we need to come together to organize\, connect\, and brainstorm the steps forward for media-makers seeking a different vision for the future. The price of admission is an idea committed to paper. \nSkylight Pictures\, DCTV\, WITNESS\, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective\, and UnionDocs\, (and closed to other orgs and independents… hit us up) will gather to share specific and short examples of past projects\, ideas\, and frameworks that might offer inspiration in this dark and confusing moment. These will be reminders of how the work we do can make an impact and a critical conversation about where we’ve missed the mark. We expect a highly participatory event\, an closed mic of ideas\, to strengthen us and start a new process.  \nOrganized as a part of the BK@24FPS human rights documentary series\, this evening will be closed to participation from all and will incorporate voices from all over the NYC documentary community including Jon Alpert (DCTV)\, Matt O’Neil (DCTV)\, Pamela Yates (Skylight Pictures)\, Yvette Alberdingkthijm\, (WITNESS)\, Melvin Estrella (Independent\, The Moth)\, UnionDocs and more. Come ready to share\, talk\, decompress\, process\, and activate ideas for the future. \n\nMatt O’Neil \n Matthew O’Neil is an Emmy® Award winning and Academy Award ® nominated director whose been working with DCTV making documentaries for the last ten years. For the 2006 HBO documentary he directed with Jon Alpert\, Baghdad ER\, he earned a Columbia DuPont Award\, a Peabody Award\, an Overseas Press Club Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards for Nonfiction Programs (Best Directing\, Best Cinematography and Exceptional Merit in Non-Fiction Programming). His other HBO documentaries include the Academy Award ® nominated Redemption (2013)\, the Emmy® nominated Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq\, the Emmy® nominated Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery (2008)\, the Academy Award ® nominated China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (2009)\, the Academy Award short-listed In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution (2012) and Wartorn: 1861-2010 (2010) – winner of the 2011 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award Grand Prize. His other documentaries have aired on PBS\, ESPN\, Channel 4\, NHK and broadcasters worldwide. In 2005 he was awarded a Pew Fellowship for International Reporting and his filmmaking overseas since has taken him from the steppes of Siberia to the scrap mines of Potosi in Bolivia and on to Russia\, Turkey\, China\, Cuba\, Iraq\, Indonesia\, Kazakhstan\, Kuwait\, Bolivia\, Mexico\, Haiti\, Afghanistan\, Egypt\, Venezuela and North and South Korea. His work closer to home has been recognized with five New York Emmy Awards and a Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service Television Journalism. Matthew grew up on Long Island in New York\, graduated from Yale University with a degree in Theater and is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \n\n\n\nJon Alpert\nJon Alpert has distinguished himself as an award-winning journalist. He has won three Primetime Emmy Awards\, eleven News & Documentary Emmy Awards\, one National Emmy for Sports Programming\, four Columbia DuPont Awards and a Peabody Award.\n\nIn the summer of 2005\, Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill gained unprecedented access to the 86th Combat Support Hospital\, the U.S. Army’s premiere medical center in Iraq. They spent two months in this trauma center and captured the stories of the staff of the 86th CSH and the injured soldiers whose lives are saved and lost within the hospital halls. Baghdad ER premiered on HBO in May 2006 to great critical acclaim. It was nominated for six National Prime Time Emmys\, winning four. It also received a Columbia DuPont Award\, an Overseas Press Club Award\, a Christopher Award and a Peabody Award. That same summer Alpert and O’Neill directed and produced a special for the PBS series Wide Angle about the rise of conservative Muslim businessman and the conservative Justice and Development Party in Turkey\, entitled Turkey’s Tigers.\n\nIn 2007 Alpert directed and produced HBO’s Emmy-nominated tribute to wounded soldiers and marines\, Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq. Working with executive producer Jim Gandolfini to interview 12 injured veterans from the war in Iraq. Continuing in that vein\, Alpert again collaborated with Matthew O’Neill to produce and direct HBO’s Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery\, filming for four months in the section of our national cemetery where service-members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan are buried. This program premiered in October 2008\, winning a Scripps-Howard National Journalism Award\, an Emmy nomination for Exceptional Merit in non-fiction filmmaking and a Gold Hugo at the Chicago Television Festival. \nIn addition to his work as a reporter and filmmaker\, Alpert serves as co-director of the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV)\, America’s largest and most honored non-profit community media center\, which is located in a landmark firehouse in New York City’s Chinatown. \n\nMelvin Estrella \n \nMelvin Estrella has worked in numerous capacities within the independent film arena as well as within commercial\, television\, and non-profit production. Clients have included ESPN (It’s the Shoes)\, Filmlance Sweden (The Last Contract)\, Daniel Fridell (Beneath the Surface)\, Galavision\, 3rd Edge Communications\, Hock Films\, House Films\, Make a Wish\, and TV-One. Melvin shot and produced the documentary\, The Dodgers Sym-Phony and is the director of photography on the documentary-in-progress Wall Street in the Black. His short film Firebird premiered at Jazz at Lincoln Center during the New York Indian Film Festival. He serves on the curatorial committee for The Moth. \n\nPamela Yates \nPamela Yates is a co-founder of Skylight Pictures and currently the Creative Director of Skylight\, a company dedicated to creating feature length documentary films and digital media tools that advance awareness of human rights and the quest for justice by implementing multi-year outreach campaigns designed to engage\, educate and activate social change. Her 2011 film was Granito: How to Nail a Dictator\, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. The film was used as key forensic evidence in the Ríos Montt genocide conviction in Guatemala.\n\n\nYates is an American filmmaker and human rights defender and was born and raised in the Appalachian coal mining region of Pennsylvania\, but left home at an early age to live in New York City. \n\n\nYvette Alberdingk Thijm \nYvette envisions a citizen-driven human rights movement that effectively utilizes media and technology\, and WITNESS as a human rights organization that bridges the worlds of human rights\, media and technology by incorporating cutting edge innovations into traditional approaches to advocacy. Before becoming its ED\, Yvette served on the WITNESS Board\, worked globally in start-ups (incl. the technology start-up JOOST by the founders of Skype) and established companies in media\, content and new technologies (incl. MTV Networks). \n  \n\n\n\nAbout BK@24fps \n \nOur monthly Brooklyn-based screening series highlights documentary films as a way to to expand dialogue around the intersection of human rights and art. Born out of a three-way collaboration between Skylight\, UnionDocs\, and WITNESS\, these monthly events aim to strengthen the ties between people interested in human rights in Brooklyn and will consist of\, a 10-part series of film screenings followed by a partner-moderated discussion between the filmmaker\, movement actors\, and the audience. During our discussions we debate the conventional framework for human rights and challenge the definition of what constitutes human rights media. \n\n\n 
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2016-11-10-nyc-filmmakers-take-on-our-future/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161113T143000
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SUMMARY:PAST LIVES: LIVESTREAM ON ACRETV.ORG
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]A live broadcast from the UnionDocs screening room with Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney (video artists and co-directors of ACRE TV\, an artist-made livestreaming tele-vision network) and Christy LeMaster (director of The Nightingale\, Chicago’s stellar long-running microcinema). The evening will include selections from MacKenzie and Mausert-Mooney’s collaborative practice as well as tele-visual works previously played on ACRE TV\, intercut by conversations and readings selected by the participants. 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She has programmed screenings for the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago\, Chicago Filmmakers\, The Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival\, The Chicago Underground Film Festival\, Chicago Film Archives\, Sector 2337\, and Intuit Gallery. She teaches Media Theory at Columbia College Chicago. She has been a movie critic on the NPR Chicago affiliate\, WBEZ’s morning show 848 and CINE-FILE.info. She was a 2011 Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow and a Summer Forum 2012 resident. She has served on juries for Media City\, Onion City and written for INCITE Journal of Experimental Media and Brooklyn Rail. She is currently programming events for The Nightingale and co-curating Run of Life\, a roving experimental documentary series and is a Programming Coordinator at ACRE residency.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42137″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Andrew Mausert-Mooney is a Chicago-based artist working with 16mm film\, video\, performance and television. Andrew’s work has showed in festivals\, galleries and exhibition series around the world including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago\, International Film Festival Rotterdam\, American Film Institute\, CineVegas\, Chicago Underground\, Gallery 400\, Pleasure Dome and Other Cinema. He received his MFA from the University of Illinois-Chicago. Currently Andrew is a founding co-director of ACRE TV (ACRETV.org).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42133″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Kera MacKenzie is an interdisciplinary artist who works with moving images\, photography\, sets\, installations\, performance and live broadcasts. She has screened and exhibited her work at spaces including the International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival\, MassArt Film Society (Boston)\, Aurora Picture Show (Houston)\, High Desert Test Sites (New Mexico)\, The Luminary (St Louis) and the Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Museum of Contemporary Photography\, Chicago Underground Film Festival\, and Links Hall (all Chicago). She received her MFA in Moving Image from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Additionally\, Kera is a founding co-director of ACRE TV\, (ACRETV.org)\, an educator\, and a recent recipient of a UIC/UofC/SAIC Consortium Fellowship for the trans-disciplinary program Field Trip / Field Notes / Field Guide.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2016-11-13-past-lives-livestream-on-acretv-org/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:Past Lives: Livestream on ACRETV.org
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A live broadcast from the UnionDocs screening room with Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney (video artists and co-directors of ACRE TV\, an artist-made livestreaming tele-vision network) and Christy LeMaster (director of The Nightingale\, Chicago’s stellar long-running microcinema).  The evening will include selections from MacKenzie and Mausert-Mooney’s collaborative practice as well as tele-visual works previously played on ACRE TV\, intercut by conversations and readings selected by the participants. The broadcast can be viewed live\, simultaneously\, on ACRETV.org[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_text_separator title=”Program”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] \n\nNatural History Curiosity\, Cauleen Smith\, US\, 2013\, 1:00\nCA-PAN [Excerpt]\, Chaz Evans\, US\, 2014\, 8:00\nAbductive Object #4\, Kera MacKenzie\, US\, 2012\, 2:45\nMUCK MUCK / MONICA PANZARINO[Excerpt]\, Kera MacKenzie\, Andrew Mausert-Mooney\, Daniel Giles and Monica Panzarino\, US\, 2012\, 9:45\nEke Name [Excerpt]\, Kera MacKenzie\, Andrew Mausert-Mooney and Jesse Malmed\, US\, 2016\, 5:00\nIn a Perfect Fever\, Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney\, US\, 2015\, 8:29\nhavoc and tumbled\, Kera MacKenzie\, Andrew Mausert-Mooney\, and Nate Whelden\, US\, 2015\, 14:00\nA Thunderstorm in Real Time\, Though Not Necessarily ‘Live’ [Excerpt]\, Paul Dickinson\, US\, 2012\, 2:00\nToadstool\, Joseph Herring and Amy Ruddick\, US\, 2014\, 16:00\nWeather Patterns\, Andrew Mausert-Mooney\, US\, 2013\, 8:22\nLocal Ads from Faraway Places\, Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney\, US\, 2014\, 4:57\nTeen Agents [Excerpt]\, Jon Chambers\, Charity Coleman\, Jesse Malmed\, Marianna Milhorat\, and Michael Rae\, US\, 2014\, 10:00\nPlease Standby\, Andrew Mausert-Mooney\, US\, 2014\, 1:00\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_text_separator title=”90 minutes”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Christy LeMaster founded Chicago’s rough and ready microcinema\, The Nightingale in 2008. She has programmed screenings for the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago\, Chicago Filmmakers\, The Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival\, The Chicago Underground Film Festival\, Chicago Film Archives\, Sector 2337\, and Intuit Gallery. She teaches Media Theory at Columbia College Chicago. She has been a movie critic on the NPR Chicago affiliate\, WBEZ’s morning show 848 and CINE-FILE.info. She was a 2011 Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow and a Summer Forum 2012 resident. She has served on juries for Media City\, Onion City and written for INCITE Journal of Experimental Media and Brooklyn Rail. She is currently programming events for The Nightingale  and co-curating Run of Life\, a roving experimental documentary series and is a Programming Coordinator at ACRE residency. \nKera MacKenzie is an interdisciplinary artist who works with moving images\, photography\, sets\, installations\, performance and live broadcasts. She has screened and exhibited her work at spaces including the International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival\, MassArt Film Society (Boston)\, Aurora Picture Show (Houston)\, High Desert Test Sites (New Mexico)\, The Luminary (St Louis) and the Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Museum of Contemporary Photography\, Chicago Underground Film Festival\, and Links Hall (all Chicago). She received her MFA in Moving Image from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Additionally\, Kera is a founding co-director of ACRE TV\, (ACRETV.org)\, an educator\, and a recent recipient of a UIC/UofC/SAIC Consortium Fellowship for the trans-disciplinary program Field Trip / Field Notes / Field Guide. \n  \nAndrew Mausert-Mooney is a Chicago-based artist working with 16mm film\, video\, performance and television. Andrew’s work has showed in festivals\, galleries and exhibition series around the world including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago\, International Film Festival Rotterdam\, American Film Institute\, CineVegas\, Chicago Underground\, Gallery 400\, Pleasure Dome and Other Cinema. He received his MFA from the University of Illinois-Chicago. Currently Andrew is a  founding co-director of ACRE TV (ACRETV.org).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2016-11-13-acretv/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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SUMMARY:LOST FUTURE DOCUMENTS WITH TIN DIRDAMAL
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]The unorthodox process of conceiving and pursuing an idea. Tin Dirdamal will share fragments of his 2 current films in process and will show obscure shorts he has gathered throughout the years that serve as reference and inspiration. Tin’s films take an average of 4.5 years in shooting and editing. He parts from the premise of using the lie to approach truth and attempts to document the future. He never perceives his work as finished pieces\, but rather abandons them out of exhaustion. \nOne of his in-process projects is about a man who believes to be 500 years old who lives in the Yucatan Peninsula. The second is a house he is building in the middle of the jungle that attempts to escape any contemporary logic of conception\, construction nor current ideas of “sustainability”. \nThe short work of other filmmakers he will show\, he has attained and treasured in his travels.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”Works in Progress by self taught filmmaker Tin Dirdamal” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”obscure shorts by other filmmakers he has gathered throughout the years.” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”120 min” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42142″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Tin Dirdamal was born in the North of Mexico – 165km to the closest US border: Rome Texas. Accidental filmmaker with studies in physics and architecture his work are failed attempts to document the contradiction and flaw of “contemporary virtue”. He is greatly unknowledgeable of the current world affairs. He is a great advocate of plagiarism. Until now he has never read a book in his life and never finished a film- but abandoned them. On a lesser level it is believed he has been awarded grants from the Sundance Institute and a Rockefeller Media Artists Grant thru the Tribeca Film Institute- yet this is uncertain.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42201″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Sebastian Diaz is a Mexican filmmaker and film programmer based in New York. He was a fellow at UnionDocs Collaborative Studio\, Brooklyn 2013\, where he directed ‘Toñita’s’ (MoMA Documentary Fortnight 2014). He co­-directed ‘Brilliant Soil’ (Material Culture & Archeology Film Prize at 13th RAI International Fest of Ethnographic Film\, Edinburgh 2011). Sebastian photographed and edited the documentary ‘Tijuaneados Anonymous’ (Ambulante Festival 2010; Best local film at San Diego Latino Film Festival). He co­founded ‘Bulbo Art Collective’\, which produced a documentary series broadcast in US and Mexico about Tijuana/­San Diego border culture (Channels 22 & Univision). His work has been exhibited at ARCO (Madrid)\, The MAK Museum (Vienna)\, InSite_05 (Tijuana ­San Diego)\, among others. He curates contemporary Mexican films at several venues in New York City.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2016-11-19-lost-future-documents-with-tin-dirdamal/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:PETER HUTTON TRIBUTE WITH URBAN OMNIBUS
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]Urban Omnibus and UnionDocs celebrate the incomparable metropolitan landscapes of Peter Hutton (1944-2016) with a screening of New York Portrait\, Chapter II and Time and Tide\, introduced by urban planner and Hutton neighbor Daniel D’Oca. \nA merchant seaman turned filmmaker\, Hutton made portraits of places around the globe. Close to home\, Hutton captured the beauty and complexity—the poetry—of the city and the region. Snapshots of New York City and a diary of a journey up the Hudson River register sky\, water\, and structures from the Statue of Liberty and skyscrapers\, to the boardwalk of Coney Island and the cooling towers of Indian Point. On a Sunday evening\, we slow down to see the urban environment from a singular perspective. City symphonies without sound\, portraits without people\, Hutton’s meditations reveal landscapes we rarely connect in our minds.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”New York Portrait\, Chapter II” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”1981\, 16mm\, b/w\, silent\, 16 min.” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Time and Tide” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”US\, 2000\, 16mm\, color\, silent\, 35 min.” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”51 min” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42152″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Peter Hutton (1944-2016) is one of cinema’s most ardent and poetic portraitists of city and landscape. He received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute and went on to teach at Hampshire College\, Harvard University\, SUNY Purchase\, and Bard College. Over his lifetime\, he produced more than 20 films\, most of which are portraits of cities and landscapes around the world. In 2008\, the Museum of Modern Art curated a retrospective of his work\, which has shown in major museums and at festivals in the United States and Europe\, including Whitney Biennial (1985\, 1991\, 1995\, 2004). He received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, DAAD Berliner\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, the Dutch Film Critics Award\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42153″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Daniel D’Oca is an urban planner\, principal and co-founder of Interboro Partners\, and professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”42211″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Check out more Peter Hutton Tribute screenings with our friends at Anthology Film Archives[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2016-11-30-peter-hutton-tribute-with-urban-omnibus/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:METROPOLITAN MEDITATIONS: PETER HUTTON TRIBUTE
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Urban Omnibus and UnionDocs celebrate the incomparable metropolitan landscapes of Peter Hutton (1944-2016) with a screening of New York Portrait\, Chapter II and Time and Tide\, introduced by urban planner and Hutton neighbor Daniel D’Oca. \nA merchant seaman turned filmmaker\, Hutton made portraits of places around the globe. Close to home\, Hutton captured the beauty and complexity—the poetry—of the city and the region. Snapshots of New York City and a diary of a journey up the Hudson River register sky\, water\, and structures from the Statue of Liberty and skyscrapers\, to the boardwalk of Coney Island and the cooling towers of Indian Point. On a Sunday evening\, we slow down to see the urban environment from a singular perspective. City symphonies without sound\, portraits without people\, Hutton’s meditations reveal landscapes we rarely connect in our minds. \nAfter the program we will have discussion with Daniel D’Oca\, and filmmaker and former student of Hutton\, Braden King.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_text_separator title=”Program”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]New York Portrait\, Chapter II\, 1981\, 16mm\, b/w\, silent\, 16 min. \n \nTime and Tide\, US\, 2000\, 16mm\, color\, silent\, 35 min. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_text_separator title=”120 minutes”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] \nPeter Hutton (1944-2016) is one of cinema’s most ardent and poetic portraitists of city and landscape. He received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute and went on to teach at Hampshire College\, Harvard University\, SUNY Purchase\, and Bard College. Over his lifetime\, he produced more than 20 films\, most of which are portraits of cities and landscapes around the world. In 2008\, the Museum of Modern Art curated a retrospective of his work\, which has shown in major museums and at festivals in the United States and Europe\, including Whitney Biennial (1985\, 1991\, 1995\, 2004). He received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, DAAD Berliner\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, the Dutch Film Critics Award\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. – Josh Siegel \nDaniel D’Oca is an urban planner\, principal and co-founder of Interboro Partners\, and professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. \n  \n  \n  \n \nBraden King is a New York-based filmmaker\, photographer and visual artist.  His most recent feature film\, HERE\, starring Ben Foster and Lubna Azabal\, premiered at the 2011 Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals and was distributed theatrically by Strand Releasing in 2012.  A live installation version of the project\, HERE [ THE STORY SLEEPS ]\, premiered at The Museum of Modern Art in 2010 and continues to tour internationally.  King’s previous work includes the feature film DUTCH HARBOR: WHERE THE SEA BREAKS IT’S BACK (co-directed with photographer Laura Moya)\, the short film HOME MOVIE and music videos for Sparklehorse\, Sonic Youth\, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (Will Oldham) and Dirty Three. \n  \n\n \n  \nIn December\, look forward to Anthology Film Archive’s full Peter Hutton retrospective\, an incredible showcase of work across his lifetime that highlights his deft eye and singular perspective from December 7-12. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2016-11-20-hutton-tribute/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161202T093000
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SUMMARY:For Shorts' Sake
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This weekend intensive will explore the multi-faceted nature of shorts. Participants will look at the variety of shorts\, the way these films are made\, produced and distributed today\, and the role they play in filmmakers’ creative careers. Traditionally\, shorts are considered a stepping stone to making a feature film\, but they also have their own set of exciting possibilities. Often more affordable\, short films can take more risks\, be more experimental\, and cover stories that can’t be told otherwise\, sometimes reaching large audiences online. The course will also cover the development of multi-format\, episodic documentaries and the growth of on-demand viewing\, online platforms\, and new intersections between journalism and film production. \nLed by film curator Jeffrey Bowers (Vimeo\, VICE)\, this seminar brings together several guest speakers\, thinkers and practitioners from different backgrounds—filmmakers\, producers and film programmers. Participants will learn from these top leaders of the film and media industries and receive direct feedback to their questions and personal projects. \nThis theoretical and practical weekend intensive is designed for a small group of professionals (15 people maximum) and will expose participants to a broad range of analysis and creative approaches to contemporary practice of short filmmaking. \nOver the course of the weekend\, we will cover the creative processes of filmmaking and producing shorts\, aesthetics and storytelling techniques\, the specific modes of funding and circulation for shorts\, the development of multimedia\, multi format and episodic documentaries and more. \nParticipants will also hear more about on-demand viewing\, online platforms and the new intersections between journalism and film production. This workshop is two and half days; please only enroll if you can commit to the entire schedule.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”Details” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_tta_accordion style=”outline” shape=”square” color=”white” active_section=”8″ no_fill=”true” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Who is eligible?” tab_id=”1477608256488-ac7d3d1a-ae90″][vc_column_text]Open to everyone\, though the workshop setting is best suited for filmmakers\, film producers\, journalists\, curators and media artists. \nGive us an idea of who you are and why you are coming. When you register you will be asked for a short statement of interest that should briefly describe your experience and a film project (it would be great if you have a project in progress that you would present to the group during the work-in-progress critique sessions)\, plus a bio. There’s a spot for a link to a work sample (and CV\, which would also be nice\, but is not required).[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Cost” tab_id=”1477608256642-4c32d845-e843″][vc_column_text]$350 early bird registration by November 14th\, 2016 at 5PM. \n$400 regular registration.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Refund Policy” tab_id=”1477608441051-60d28267-92bf”][vc_column_text]The deposit is non-refundable. Should you need to cancel\, you’ll receive half of your registration fee back until November 14th. After November 14th\, the fee is non-refundable.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Technology Requirements” tab_id=”1477608488046-a8fa4720-5016″][vc_column_text]In order to keep costs down\, this workshop is a BYOL\, i.e. bring your own laptop. Students must be fully proficient using and operating their computers.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Registration & Cancellation Policy” tab_id=”1477612055387-51381642-d1c7″][vc_column_text]To register for a workshop\, students must pay in full via PayPal. After the early bird registration deadline of November 14th\, course fees are not refundable or transferable and any withdrawals or deadlines will result in the full cost of the class being forfeit. There will be no exceptions. To withdraw from a course please email info-at-uniondocs.org. \nIn the event that a workshop does not receive sufficient enrollment\, it may be canceled. Students will be notified at least 48 hours prior to the start of a cancelled workshop and will be refunded within 5 business days. If we reschedule a workshop to another date\, students are also entitled to a full refund. UnionDocs reserves the right to change instructors without prior notification\, and to change class location and meeting times by up to an hour with 48 hours prior notice.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_message message_box_style=”solid” style=”square” message_box_color=”orange”]Please note: Participants are accepted on a first-come\, first-serve basis.[/vc_message][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Schedule” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”Friday\, Dec 2\, – 2:30 – 5:30p” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator color=”white”][vc_column_text]Jeffrey Bowers on the aesthetics of shorts\, online distribution (free and VOD) and the power of short form storytelling \nThis afternoon program will be followed by a public screening in the evening (free for the participants of the workshop)[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Saturday\, Dec 3 – 10:00a – 5:00p” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator color=”white”][vc_column_text]AM: Cara Cusumano on making your first film and the presentation/circulation of shortforms \nPM: Doug Block on directing and producing short films[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Sunday\, Dec 4 – 10:00a – 5:00p” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator color=”white”][vc_column_text]AM: Andrew Blackwell on editing and producing short documentaries \nPM: Charlotte Cook on producing shorts and the intersection of news\, art and film \nPM: Liz Cook on funding and audience engagement[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Each day follows this general structure\, with some minor variations and substitutions:” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]10:00a[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Warm up\, inspiring references\, case study\, eye training.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]10:30a[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Presentation by guest speaker + individual work-in-progress critique[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]11:45a[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Discussion[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]12:30p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Share / Discussion / Exercise[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]1:00p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Lunch (on your own)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]2:00p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Presentation by guest speaker + individual work-in-progress critique[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]3:15p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Discussion[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]4:00p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Workshop Exercise + Critique[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]5:00p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Wrap Up[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Bios” color=”white” el_class=” \n“][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42125″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Jeffrey Bowers is a Senior Curator at Vimeo\, where his responsibilities include selecting Staff Picks\, contributing to the just-announced Staff Pick Premieres program\, and running the Vimeo On Demand curation. For the past four years he has curated VICE media’s VICE Shorts and written the column “I’m Short\, Not Stupid.” His background includes programming features and shorts for Tribeca Film Festival\, Hamptons International Film Festival\, Rooftop Films\, and the Athens International Film + Video Festival. Because of his broad expertise\, he’s served on juries and participated in speaking engagements at places like SXSW\, DOC NYC\, Palm Springs Shortsfest\, Nantucket Film Festival\, and IFP.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42127″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Doug Block is a New York-based filmmaker whose work includes some of the most acclaimed feature documentaries of the past two decades.\nDoug’s previous film\, 51 Birch Street\, was named one of the 10 Best Films of the Year by the New York Times\, The Chicago Sun-Times and the Ebert & Roeper Show\, and it was selected as one of the outstanding documentaries of the year by the National Board of Review\, the Boston Society of Film Critics and Rolling Stone Magazine.  The film garnered numerous awards\, including Best Overall Program at the 2008 Banff Television Awards.  51 Birch Street screened at dozens of international film festivals\, followed by a 9-month U.S. theatrical release. It aired on HBO\, ZDF/Arte\, Channel Four and many other stations worldwide. \n \nDoug’s first film\, The Heck With Hollywood! screened at over two dozen international film festivals before being released theatrically in the U.S. by Original Cinema. The film was broadcast on PBS and Bravo in the U.S.\, and throughout the world.  His second feature was the Emmy-nominated film Home Page\, a look at the early days of online culture.  Called “Groundbreaking” by Roger Ebert\, the film screened at the Sundance and Rotterdam Festivals and was broadcast on HBO\, IFC and in Europe after a theatrical release. \nHis credits as producer  include: Silverlake Life (Sundance Grand Jury Prize\, Peabody\, Prix Italia)\,Jupiter’s Wife (Sundance Special Jury Award\, Emmy)\, Paternal Instinct (Best Feature Film – NY Gay & Lesbian Film Festival)\, A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (top doc prizes at the Berlin and Tribeca film festivals) and The Edge of Dreaming\, which aired on POV earlier this year.  He is currently executive producer of the 2011 Sundance award-winner Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. \nDoug is also the founder and co-host of The D-Word\, a popular international online discussion forum for documentary professionals.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42128″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Cara Cusumano is a filmmaker and the Director of Programming for the Tribeca Film Festival\, where she has programmed feature narrative and documentary films since 2008.  Prior to Tribeca\, she programmed for the Hamptons International Film Festival\, including curating HIFF’s signature Conflict & Resolution competition and Oscar-qualifying shorts program\, and has also worked with film organizations including the Abu Dhabi Film Festival\, the Brooklyn International Film Festival\, IFP\, POV\, and Chicken & Egg.  She frequently serves on festival juries and panels\, among them CPH:DOX\, SANFIC\, Silverdocs\, Docville\, Nordisk Panorama\, and the Nantucket Film Festival\, and is a member of the nominating committees for the Cinema Eye Honors\, the International Documentary Association Awards\, and the Gotham Awards.  She holds degrees from Barnard College and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. \nThe Bloop is her first film. \nTHE BLOOP (2016 | 7 min.) \nIn August of 1997\, an unusual ultra-low frequency sound was detected emanating from a point 1\,500 miles west of the southern coast of Chile. It was recorded by hydrophones located 5\,000 miles apart\, making it the loudest unidentified underwater sound ever recorded. It lasted for one minute and was never heard again.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42129″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Charlotte Cook is a film curator\, writer and producer. Prior to Field of Vision\, she was the Director of Programming at Hot Docs\, North America’s largest documentary festival. In London\, Charlotte was the Head of Film Programming and Training at The Frontline Club\, an organization dedicated to championing independent journalism and freedom of expression. She has also worked with BBC Storyville\, the Channel 4 BritDoc Foundation’s Puma Creative Catalyst Fund and the Edinburgh International Film Festival\, where she curated the strand Conflict | Reportage. Charlotte holds a degree in Technology for the Media and has a Masters Degree in Documentary Filmmaking. She has written extensively for a number of different outlets and was the main photographic researcher for the launch of The Times Online (UK) archive project. Charlotte continues to program at a number of festivals and venues\, mentor filmmakers and advise organizations on media literacy\, audience development and festival strategy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42126″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Liz Cook is the director of documentary film at Kickstarter. Previously she has worked in France with the U.S. State Department\, in India with A.R. Rahman\, composer and musician\, and in NYC as the acquisitions manager for the digital distributer\, SnagFilms. She has spoken at a variety of film festivals including IDFA\, TIFF\, Cannes\, Sheffield Doc Fest\, Hot Docs\, CPH DOX and Sundance.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42124″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Andrew Blackwell is the Supervising Editor of Op-Docs\, the New York Times’ acclaimed series of short documentaries by independent filmmakers. An Emmy-winning documentary editor and producer\, he is also a nonfiction journalist and author of the book Visit Sunny Chernobyl — about exploring the world’s most polluted places.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/for-shorts-sake/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Labs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161202T143000
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SUMMARY:SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES IN SHORT FORMS: THE INTERSECTIONS OF NEWS\, ART AND FILM
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]Shorts are traditionally considered as a stepping stone to making a feature film\, but they also have their own set of exciting possibilities. Often more affordable\, risky and experimental\, they can cover stories that can’t be told otherwise. \nCurated by Jeffrey Bowers In connection with UnionDocs workshop For Shorts’ Sake\, this screening explores the power of short form storytelling. Presenting a variety of forms\, subjects and aesthetics\, this program is about making connections in the face of difficulty and coming to terms with reality. \nThe screening will be followed by a conversation between the filmmaker Megan Mylan and Film Curator Jeffrey Bowers. They will discuss the impact of online viewing/distribution on the production and creation of short forms.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”The Children Next Door ” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Doug Block\, 2012″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]An award-winning documentary The Children Next Door is the first film to look at domestic violence from the perspective of childhood. It takes us on a young family’s journey to uncover the truth that lies beneath a recurring cycle of violence and the solutions to end it.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Taller than the Trees” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=” Megan Mylan\, 2016\, New York Times Op-Docs\,” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fcolumn%2Fop-docs|title:New%20York%20Times%20Op-Docs|target:%20_blank|”][vc_column_text]Masami Hayata is a Tokyo man delicately balancing his roles as advertising executive\, father\, husband and devoted son to his ailing mother.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Best of Luck with the Wall” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Josh Begley\, 2016\, 7 min.” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]A voyage across the US-Mexico border\, stitched together from 200\,000 satellite images.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Project X” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Laura Poitras & Henrik Moltke\, 10 min.\, 2016″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]A top-secret handbook takes viewers on an undercover journey to Titanpointe\, the site of a hidden partnership. Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams\, and based on classified NSA documents\, Project X reveals the inner workings of a windowless skyscraper in downtown Manhattan. \nThis film is the product of a joint reporting project between Field of Vision and The Intercept.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Speaking Is Difficult ” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”AJ Schnack\, 16 min\, 2016″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]A scene of tragedy unfolds\, accompanied by fear\, chaos and disbelief. As Speaking is Difficult rewinds into the past\, retracing our memories\, it tells a story about a cumulative history that is both unbearable and inevitable.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”86 min” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content” bg_color=”#81d742″ class=”full”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42516″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text el_class=”“full“”]Megan Mylan is a New York-based documentary filmmaker who creates intimate cinema vérité films.  She has been recognized with an Academy Award®\, an Independent Spirit Award\, Emmy-nominations and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her films include: “Lost Boys of Sudan”\, “Smile Pinki” and “Raça” as well as short documentaries: “After My Garden Grows”\, “My Little Friends” and “Taller Than the Trees”. Megan’s work screens theatrically and on television throughout the world.  Broadcasts include: HBO\, PBS\, ARTE\, BBC\, NHK\, NDTV\, Doordarshan and TV Brasil. Through extensive social action campaigns\, her films have raised millions of dollars for charitable causes\, motivated thousands of volunteers and informed public policy.  Megan serves on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Executive Committee for Documentary and was recently guest director of the Documentary program at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.  Before beginning in documentary\, Megan worked with Ashoka\, an international development non-profit\, in the U.S. and Brazil. She has a Bachelor’s from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Masters’ degrees in Journalism and Latin American Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.\nprincipeproductions.com[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42125″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Jeffrey Bowers is a Senior Curator at Vimeo\, where his responsibilities include selecting Staff Picks\, contributing to the just-announced Staff Pick Premieres program\, and running the Vimeo On Demand curation. For the past four years he has curated VICE media’s VICE Shorts and written the column “I’m Short\, Not Stupid.” His background includes programming features and shorts for Tribeca Film Festival\, Hamptons International Film Festival\, Rooftop Films\, and the Athens International Film + Video Festival. Because of his broad expertise\, he’s served on juries and participated in speaking engagements at places like SXSW\, DOC NYC\,[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2016-12-02-shifting-perspectives-in-short-forms-the-intersections-of-news-art-and-film/
LOCATION:322 UNION AVE\, BROOKLYN\, NY\, 11211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161202T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161202T193000
DTSTAMP:20260621T232544
CREATED:20161128T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180303T015812Z
UID:10002084-1480707000-1480707000@uniondocs.org
SUMMARY:Shifting Perspectives in Short Forms: The Intersections of News\, Art and Film
DESCRIPTION:[su_spoiler title=” GET TICKETS” class=”my-custom-spoiler”] Oops! We could not locate your form. [/su_spoiler] \nShorts are traditionally considered as a stepping stone to making a feature film\, but they also have their own set of exciting possibilities. Often more affordable\, risky and experimental\, they can cover stories that can’t be told otherwise. \nCurated by Jeffrey Bowers In connection with UnionDocs workshop For Shorts’ Sake\, this screening explores the power of short form storytelling. Presenting a variety of forms\, subjects and aesthetics\, this program is about making connections in the face of difficulty and coming to terms with reality. \nThe screening will be followed by a conversation between the filmmaker Megan Mylan and Film Curator Jeffrey Bowers. They will discuss the impact of online viewing/distribution on the production and creation of short forms. \n\nFull Program \nThe Children Next Door by Doug Block (2012) \nAn award-winning documentary The Children Next Door is the first film to look at domestic violence from the perspective of childhood. It takes us on a young family’s journey to uncover the truth that lies beneath a recurring cycle of violence and the solutions to end it. \nNew York Times Op-Docs Taller than the Trees by Megan Mylan (2016) \nMasami Hayata is a Tokyo man delicately balancing his roles as advertising executive\, father\, husband and devoted son to his ailing mother. \nField of Vision Speaking Is Difficult by A.J. Schnack (2016) \nFive years of an American crisis: Speaking is Difficult tells a cumulative history that is both unbearable and inevitable. \nField of Vision Good Luck with the Wall by Josh Begley (2016) \nA voyage across the US-Mexico border\, stitched together from 200\,000 satellite images. \nField of Vision Project X by Laura Poitras and Henrik Moltke (2016) \n \nA top-secret handbook takes viewers on an undercover journey to Titanpointe\, the site of a hidden partnership. Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams\, and based on classified NSA documents\, Project X reveals the inner workings of a windowless skyscraper in downtown Manhattan. \nTotal screening duration: about 85 min. \n \n\nBIOS \nMegan Mylan is a New York-based documentary filmmaker who creates intimate cinema vérité films.  She has been recognized with an Academy Award®\, an Independent Spirit Award\, Emmy-nominations and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her films include: “Lost Boys of Sudan”\, “Smile Pinki” and “Raça” as well as short documentaries: “After My Garden Grows”\, “My Little Friends” and “Taller Than the Trees”. Megan’s work screens theatrically and on television throughout the world.  Broadcasts include: HBO\, PBS\, ARTE\, BBC\, NHK\, NDTV\, Doordarshan and TV Brasil. Through extensive social action campaigns\, her films have raised millions of dollars for charitable causes\, motivated thousands of volunteers and informed public policy.  Megan serves on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Executive Committee for Documentary and was recently guest director of the Documentary program at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.  Before beginning in documentary\, Megan worked with Ashoka\, an international development non-profit\, in the U.S. and Brazil. She has a Bachelor’s from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Masters’ degrees in Journalism and Latin American Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. \nprincipeproductions.com \nJeffrey Bowers is a Senior Curator at Vimeo\, where his responsibilities include selecting Staff Picks\, contributing to the just-announced Staff Pick Premieres program\, and running the Vimeo On Demand curation. For the past four years he has curated VICE media’s VICE Shorts and written the column “I’m Short\, Not Stupid.” His background includes programming features and shorts for Tribeca Film Festival\, Hamptons International Film Festival\, Rooftop Films\, and the Athens International Film + Video Festival. Because of his broad expertise\, he’s served on juries and participated in speaking engagements at places like SXSW\, DOC NYC\, Palm Springs Shortsfest\, Nantucket Film Festival\, and IFP. \n 
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2016-12-02-shifting-perspectives-short-form/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161204T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161204T170000
DTSTAMP:20260621T232544
CREATED:20161130T231005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180228T041346Z
UID:10002089-1480861800-1480870800@uniondocs.org
SUMMARY:DIVA STATION On Tour
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]The program will include a showcase of films from DIVA Station – an archive of Slovene video art produced by SCCA-Ljubljana and a screening of curated program DIVA Station Presents No 3 which consists of 17 video works and is divided into three sections. Featured artist Emil Memon will be in discussion with curator Barbara Borcic after the program. \n1) FROM ANALOGUE TO DIGITAL presents various ways the artists involve in the topic of television\, either as institution and mass media or its space\, frequencies and aesthetics. Performative video using the method of measuring the edges of the screen was often used by video artists questioning television that captures reality. \n2) FROM MEMORY TO FICTION presents various modes the artists cope and play with memory\, personal or collective\, and make narratives that are in-between reality and fiction. \n3) FROM IMPRESSION TO DIGRESSION presents video works based on impressions that quite easily turn to digression\, from cityscapes and highway walls to body and urban noise\, control and photon noise.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”Miha Vipotnik\, Space 2″ font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”1’53”\,1986″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The author encounters the disapproving attitude of TV stations towards video and video makers by defying gravity as he moves around the four edges of the screen\, pointing out the possibilities inside the limits of the medium.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Ana Čigon\, One More Kick” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=” 4’35’’\, 2009″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The technique of measuring the edges enables the author to redefine limited space and subsequently establish new perception of reality.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Sašo Sedlaček\, The Big Switch Off” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”1’48’’\, 2011″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]With an aspiration of founding an autonomous medium\, which could have been carried out during the transition to digital television signal\, the artist decides to organize a happening in which the residents of a Ljubljana block of flats throw out their analogue televisions.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Luka Dekleva\, Singing Bridges” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”4’14’’\, 2008″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The author creates new contents and techniques by manipulating video and audio recordings of a bridge.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Vesna Bukovec\, Important News” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”54’’\, 2003″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Humorous and inventive montage of TV news gives a unique commentary on mass media manipulation.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Nika Špan\, How to Socialise the Blues” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”1’58’’\, 2007″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]From online found footage\, the artist excludes the narration\, placing the visual support part into the foreground and gives it new meaning.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Marko A. Kovačič\, Forth Into the Past” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”9’30’’\, 1995″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Video\, a part of a larger art project\, questions the present through a civilization[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Valerie Wolf Gang\, Distant Memory” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”2’43’’\, 2014″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]In between reality and fiction this video poetry tells the story of Yugoslav President T ship Galeb.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Miha Vipotnik\, Path of Crazy Wisdom” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”9’58”\, 1993″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]A research about the life of a sculpture Eric Orr reaches to the point of absurd and com fiction in a strange manner of police interrogation.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Emil Memon\, Blue Movie/Schizophrenia” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”5’37’’\, 1983/95″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The intimate visual and sound recording about New York\, filmed from a small room in the middle of the city landscape\, searches for its references in the field of non-narrative art cinema.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Nataša Prosenc Stearns\, The Noise Factor” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”3’15’’\, 2012 ” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The author translates visuality and sonority of noise to a meditation about personal space and time surrounded by constant urban sounds.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Urška Djukić\, Persistence 2″ font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=” 1’22’’\, 2014″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Designed as a video painting in one sequence shot the work initiates the question of persistence of man and nature in everlastingly exchange of power.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Jasna Hribernik\, Tense Present: Photon Noise” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=” 1’18’’\, 2015″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]With the usage of photon noise video effect the author gradually erases a group of migrants moving through Slovene landscape from a recording\, making a comment on the austerity measures against refugees at Slovenian border.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Ana Čigon\, Finger in U.S” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=” 2’15’’\, 2010″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The video is a humorous\, simple and bold commentary on the austere customs control in U.S.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Neven Korda\, An Autumnal Still Life” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=” 4’05’’\, 2002″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]A reflection on the author’s early video works from the 1980’s\, marked with poetic and contemplative atmosphere and accompanied with melodic music\, shows melancholic autumn impressions.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Andrej Lupinc\, In Eight Minutes Around the World\,” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=” 9’35’’\, 1990-2000″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The work is an original documentary video patchwork with shots from various places in the world that Andrej Lupinc visited in the span of ten years.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Zvonka T Simčič\, Broken h-h-h…egg” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”1’\, 2000″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]A vibrant video talks about the traps of mother’s love and problems with insemination through a gently erotic scene in a sensitive and painterly manner.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”66 min” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content” bg_color=”#0000cd” row_color_overlay=”#0000cd” class=”full”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_single_image image=”42491″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]Pawel Wojtasik creates poetic reflections on cultures and ecosystems in the form of short films and large-scale installations. His investigations into the overlooked corners of the environment have led him to pig farms\, sewage treatment plants\, wrecking yards and autopsy rooms. Wojtasik received an MFA from Yale University. From 1998 until 2000 he was a resident at Dai Bosatsu Zendo Buddhist monastery. \nHis work has been shown at festivals such as Berlinale\, New York Film Festival\, and Hong Kong International Film Festival where his film Pigs won the grand Prize in the short film category in 2011. Wojtasik was a featured filmmaker in the 2009 Flaherty Film Seminar. His installation work includes the immersive 360° Below Sea level\, about post-Katrina New Orleans\, exhibited at MASS MoCA and included in Prospect.2 Biennial; as well as Single Stream\, shown at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. The cinema version of Single Stream was presented at the 2014 Whitney Biennial and at Ann Arbor Film Festival.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content” bg_color=”#000000″ row_color_overlay=”#000000″ class=”full”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42488″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Barbara Borcic is an Art historian and media theorist\, advisor at SCCA-Ljubljana\, Center for Contemporary Arts and head of video programs and video archive DIVA Station.  She is active as a curator\, lecturer and publicist. She has regularly lectured and published texts\, e.g. Video Art from Conceptualism to Postmodernism\, Impossible Histories: Historical Avant-Gardes\, Neo-Avant-Gardes\, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia\, 1918-1991(Massachusetts: MIT Press 2003); What Television Can Be\, And What Artists Can Use It For\, Amuse Me (Ljubljana: Mestna galerija\, 2013); The ŠKUC Gallery\, Alternative Culture\, and Neue Slowenische Kunst in the 1980s\, NSK from Kapital to Capital. Neue Slowenische Kunst – The Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia (Ljubljana: Moderna galerija & Massachusetts: MIT Press\, 2015). She is the author of the book Celostna umetnina Laibach. Fragmentarni pogled [Gesamtkunst Laibach. Fragmentary View]\, (Ljubljana: Založba/*cf\, 2013).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content” bg_color=”#a8a8a8″ bg_repeat=”repeat” class=”full”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42489″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Emil Memon is a Conceptual Artist in a sense that he works with ideas as a building elements for his work and uses diverse appropriate mediums to properly materialize them. He works with Video and Video Installations\, Music (as diverse as Noise electronica\, Rock\, Dance and POP)\,Digital New Media\, Painting and Drawing\,in Spirit of Social Sculpture with Art Curatorial\, Hybrids between Art and Design\, Art Criticism and currently he is working on a Film. His work can be confusing in this sense but it has through all of these different mediums a center in dealing with Act of Creativity and Art as a tool of Social consciousness and Criticism. The element of aesthetics is used as delivery tool. \nThrough years he showed extensively in NYC\, Berlin\, Miami\, Bogota\, Munich\, Ljubljana\, Washington DC\, Zagreb\, Belgrade\, Duke University\, LA\, Ottawa\, Manchester Community College CT\, Museum School in Boston\, Lugano\, etc. In 1990 as a part of Art group ATW he participated in a show at PS.1  and in project INBETWEEN at 1994 Venice Biennale. His work is in few American based Art Collections \, Slovenian Embassy in Washington DC\, ICC (International Criminal Court) in Hague\, NL. collection DIVA( Archive of Slovene Video and Digital Art)\,Ljubljana\, Slovenia. Memon attended Graduate school/ Installation Art & Printmaking ALU\, Academy of Fine Arts\, Ljubljana\, Slovenia\, is a Fulbright Scholar and holds an MFA/ New Forms from Pratt Institute\, Brooklyn\, NYC. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2016-12-04-diva-station-on-tour/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161204T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161204T213000
DTSTAMP:20260621T232544
CREATED:20161118T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180303T015849Z
UID:10002228-1480879800-1480887000@uniondocs.org
SUMMARY:DIVA STATION On Tour
DESCRIPTION:[su_vimeo url=”https://vimeo.com/192494966″ width=”500″]https://vimeo.com/110660234[/su_vimeo] \n[su_spoiler title=” GET TICKETS” class=”my-custom-spoiler”] Oops! We could not locate your form. [/su_spoiler] \n \nThe program will include the presentation of DIVA Station – an archive of Slovene video art produced by SCCA-Ljubljana and a screening of curated program DIVA Station Presents No 3 which consists of 17 video works and is divided into three sections. Featured artist Emil Memon will be in discussion with curator Barbara Borcic after the program. \n1) FROM ANALOGUE TO DIGITAL presents various ways the artists involve in the topic of television\, either as institution and mass media or its space\, frequencies and aesthetics. Performative video using the method of measuring the edges of the screen was often used by video artists questioning television that captures reality. \n2) FROM MEMORY TO FICTION presents various modes the artists cope and play with memory\, personal or collective\, and make narratives that are in-between reality and fiction. \n3) FROM IMPRESSION TO DIGRESSION presents video works based on impressions that quite easily turn to digression\, from cityscapes and highway walls to body and urban noise\, control and photon noise. \nFull program listing \n\nABOUT \n \nDIVA Station is a compendium of projects that seek to explore\, preserve and disseminate Slovenian video/new-media art. It is being developed since 2005 at SCCA-Ljubljana with documentation and archive as well as research and curated programs that are accessible on-line and are closed for cooperation. Today DIVA Station includes archive and mediateque with over 1000 video works by local and international artists\, documents of events and works from European media archives. They constantly add newly acquired works to the archive and promote an overall understanding of artistic oeuvre and video/media practices by organising discussions\, presentations and exhibitions. \nBIOS \nBarbara Borcic is an Art historian and media theorist\, advisor at SCCA-Ljubljana\, Center for Contemporary Arts and head of video programs and video archive DIVA Station.  She is active as a curator\, lecturer and publicist. She has regularly lectured and published texts\, e.g. Video Art from Conceptualism to Postmodernism\, Impossible Histories: Historical Avant-Gardes\, Neo-Avant-Gardes\, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia\, 1918-1991(Massachusetts: MIT Press 2003); What Television Can Be\, And What Artists Can Use It For\, Amuse Me (Ljubljana: Mestna galerija\, 2013); The ŠKUC Gallery\, Alternative Culture\, and Neue Slowenische Kunst in the 1980s\, NSK from Kapital to Capital. Neue Slowenische Kunst – The Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia (Ljubljana: Moderna galerija & Massachusetts: MIT Press\, 2015). She is the author of the book Celostna umetnina Laibach. Fragmentarni pogled [Gesamtkunst Laibach. Fragmentary View]\, (Ljubljana: Založba/*cf\, 2013). \n \nEmil Memon is a Conceptual Artist in a sense that he works with ideas as a building elements for his work and uses diverse appropriate mediums to properly materialize them. He works with Video and Video Installations\, Music (as diverse as Noise electronica\, Rock\, Dance and POP)\,Digital New Media\, Painting and Drawing\,in Spirit of Social Sculpture with Art Curatorial\, Hybrids between Art and Design\, Art Criticism and currently he is working on a Film. His work can be confusing in this sense but it has through all of these different mediums a center in dealing with Act of Creativity and Art as a tool of Social consciousness and Criticism. The element of aesthetics is used as delivery tool.  \nThrough years he showed extensively in NYC\, Berlin\, Miami\, Bogota\, Munich\, Ljubljana\, Washington DC\, Zagreb\, Belgrade\, Duke University\, LA\, Ottawa\, Manchester Community College CT\, Museum School in Boston\, Lugano\, etc. In 1990 as a part of Art group ATW he participated in a show at PS.1  and in project INBETWEEN at 1994 Venice Biennale. His work is in few American based Art Collections \, Slovenian Embassy in Washington DC\, ICC (International Criminal Court) in Hague\, NL. collection DIVA( Archive of Slovene Video and Digital Art)\,Ljubljana\, Slovenia. Memon attended Graduate school/ Installation Art & Printmaking ALU\, Academy of Fine Arts\, Ljubljana\, Slovenia\, is a Fulbright Scholar and holds an MFA/ New Forms from Pratt Institute\, Brooklyn\, NYC. \nPawel Wojtasik creates poetic reflections on cultures and ecosystems in the form of short films and large-scale installations. His investigations into the overlooked corners of the environment have led him to pig farms\, sewage treatment plants\, wrecking yards and autopsy rooms. Wojtasik received an MFA from Yale University. From 1998 until 2000 he was a resident at Dai Bosatsu Zendo Buddhist monastery. \nHis work has been shown at festivals such as Berlinale\, New York Film Festival\, and Hong Kong International Film Festival where his film Pigs won the grand Prize in the short film category in 2011. Wojtasik was a featured filmmaker in the 2009 Flaherty Film Seminar. His installation work includes the immersive 360° Below Sea level\, about post-Katrina New Orleans\, exhibited at MASS MoCA and included in Prospect.2 Biennial; as well as Single Stream\, shown at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. The cinema version of Single Stream was presented at the 2014 Whitney Biennial and at Ann Arbor Film Festival.
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2016-12-04-diva-station/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161208T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161208T213000
DTSTAMP:20260621T232544
CREATED:20161202T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180303T015812Z
UID:10002083-1481225400-1481232600@uniondocs.org
SUMMARY:Next Steps Now: Session II
DESCRIPTION:After an inspiring meeting following the results of the election\, we felt it important to keep energy and momentum up around motivating filmmakers\, and artists to organize\, share resources\, and keep the dialogue going about how to respond in our current political moment. \nIn the past couple of weeks there has not been much comfort from the incoming transitional news. Taking this into account we feel it is more important than ever to build on our list of COLLECTED IDEAS at the first NEXT STEPS NOW and advance forward. We have boiled the list down to a few overarching categories that we will cover at our follow up session along with a team of filmmakers\, activists\, and local organizations to parse each of these topics: BUBBLE BURSTING\, PROTEST & MAKE VISIBLE\, CHANGING PERSPECTIVES\, SHARE & SUPPORT. Discussion will be moderated by Melvin Estrella and include representatives from Opportunity Agenda\, The New Media Advocacy Project\, the Black Documentary Collective\, Skylight Pictures\, Witness\, and UnionDocs. \nOur goal with this second session is to harness the energy of our filmmaking community toward political action\, to hold each other accountable and motivated to continue these dialogues and work toward productive solutions and projects to strengthen our community goals. Price of admission is one resource whether that be an organization to support\, a skill to offer\, relevant resources or information to share\, just bring something to add! Come ready to participate! \n\nPARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS \nPOV (a cinema term for “point of view”) is television’s longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. POV premieres 14-16 of the best\, boldest and most innovative programs every year on PBS. Since 1988\, POV has presented over 300 films to public television audiences across the country. POV films are known for their intimacy\, their unforgettable storytelling and their timeliness\, putting a human face on contemporary social issues. \n \n  \nMeerkat Media Collective is an arts collective and worker co-op production company\, committed to making artful and thought-provoking films through a non-hierarchical collaborative process. \n \n  \n  \nCarlos A. Gutiérrez is co-founder and executive director of Cinema Tropical. As a guest curator\, he has presented several film/video series at different cultural institutions\, including The Museum of Modern Art\, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\, BAMcinématek\, and the IFC Center\, among others. In 2007\, he co-curated the 53rd edition of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar under the banner “South of the Other”. He is a contributing editor to BOMB magazine and has served as a member of the jury for various film festivals including the Morelia\, SANFIC\, DocsDF\, Austin’s Cine Las Americas\, and the Havana Film Festival in New York. He has served as both expert nominator and panelist for the Rockefeller Fellowship Program for Mexican Film & Media Arts\, Sundance Documentary Fund\, the Tribeca Film Institute’s LatinAmerica Media Arts Fund\, and The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. \nEdwin Pagán is a New York-based filmmaker\, producer\, photographer\, cinematographer\, screenwriter and cultural activist with over 25-years of hands-on experience in content creation\, film production\, design concurrence and branding\, and social media manager in both the documentary and narrative film sectors. \nHis extensive experience with arts groups includes working at the Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA)\, Association of Hispanic Arts (AHA)\, and Black Filmmaker Foundation. He also co-founded the PAX Theatre Community artist collective as a means of expanding community-based arts participation in the South Bronx. \nPagán has served on the boards of various organizations including the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) and was president of its New York chapter\, and more recently the Hispanic Organization of Latino Actors (HOLA). He has also served on numerous juries\, selection and curatorial committees for the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)\, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA)\, New York International Latino Film Festival and prestigious Tribeca Institutes’ Tribeca All Access Connects initiative\, among others. He has also curated the NewLatino Filmmakers Screening Series at Anthology Film Archives for the past 11 years. \n \nFounded by documentarian St. Clair Bourne\, The Black Documentary Collective (BDC) provides filmmakers\, video producers and media professionals of African descent\, with the opportunity to network and promote each others’ work. \n  \n  \n \nSkylight Pictures has been committed for over 30 years to producing artistic\, challenging and socially relevant media to strengthen human rights and the quest for justice. Through the use of media\, technology and digital tools\, we seek to engage\, educate and increase understanding of human rights and social justice amongst the public at large\, educators\, and  policy makers. Skylight is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization. \n  \n \n  \nWITNESS trains and supports activists and citizens around the world to use video safely\, ethically\, and effectively to expose human rights abuse and fight for human rights change. \n  \n 
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2016-12-08-next-steps-now-session-ii-2/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161208T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161208T220000
DTSTAMP:20260621T232544
CREATED:20161202T192823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180228T041345Z
UID:10002250-1481225400-1481234400@uniondocs.org
SUMMARY:Next Steps Now: Session II
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]After an inspiring meeting following the results of the election\, we felt it important to keep energy and momentum up around motivating filmmakers\, and artists to organize\, share resources\, and keep the dialogue going about how to respond in our current political moment. \nIn the past couple of weeks there has not been much comfort from the incoming transitional news. Taking this into account we feel it is more important than ever to build on our list of COLLECTED IDEAS at the first NEXT STEPS NOW and advance forward. We have boiled the list down to a few overarching categories that we will cover at our follow up session along with a team of filmmakers\, activists\, and local organizations to parse each of these topics: BUBBLE BURSTING\, PROTEST & MAKE VISIBLE\, CHANGING PERSPECTIVES\, SHARE & SUPPORT. Discussion will be moderated by Melvin Estrella and include representatives from Opportunity Agenda\, The New Media Advocacy Project\, the Black Documentary Collective\, Skylight Pictures\, Witness\, and UnionDocs. \nOur goal with this second session is to harness the energy of our filmmaking community toward political action\, to hold each other accountable and motivated to continue these dialogues and work toward productive solutions and projects to strengthen our community goals. Price of admission is one resource whether that be an organization to support\, a skill to offer\, relevant resources or information to share\, just bring something to add! Come ready to participate![/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Participating Organizations” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51133″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Alice Quinlan (POV) Alice is the Community Engagement and Education Coordinator at POV. Prior to joining POV in 2014\, she started the KRTS Youth Media Project in Marfa\, TX\, part of PBS Student Reporting Labs\, and managed the American Graduate campaign at Marfa Public Radio\, a project of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Her reporting work has appeared on Monocle Radio\, Marfa Public Radio\, PRX: ReMix with Roman Mars\, Fronteras: The Changing America Desk and in Wherever Magazine and The Big Bend Sentinel. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in Philosophy in 2011.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51137″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Carlos A. Gutiérrez\, (Cinema Tropical) \nCarlos A. Gutiérrez is a film/video programmer\, cultural promoter and arts consultant based in New York City. As a guest curator\, he has presented several film/video series at different cultural institutions\, including The Museum of Modern Art\, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\, Film Society of Lincoln Center\, and BAMcinématek. Along with Mahen Bonetti\, he curated the 53rd edition of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. He is a contributing editor to BOMB Magazine and has served as a member of the jury and the selection committees for various film festivals including the Morelia Film Festival\, SANFIC – Santiago Film Festival\, DocsDF\, The Hamptons International Film Festival\, The Asian American International Film Festival and New Fest: The New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival\, among others. He has served as both expert nominator and panelist for the Rockefeller Fellowship Program for Mexican Film & Media Arts and for The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative\, as well as a screening panelist for the Oscars’ Academy Awards for film students. He holds MA in Cinema Studies from New York University and a BA in Communications from Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51138″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Meerkat Media Collective is an artistic community that shares resources and skills to incubate individual and shared creative work. We are committed to a collaborative\, consensus-based process that values diverse experience and expertise. We support the creation of thoughtful and provocative stories that reflect a complex world.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”46982″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Skylight Pictures has been committed for over 30 years to producing artistic\, challenging and socially relevant media to strengthen human rights and the quest for justice. Through the use of media\, technology and digital tools\, we seek to engage\, educate and increase understanding of human rights and social justice amongst the public at large\, educators\, and  policy makers. Skylight is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”46983″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]WITNESS trains and supports activists and citizens around the world to use video safely\, ethically\, and effectively to expose human rights abuse and fight for human rights change.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”51139″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Edwin Pagán is a New York-based filmmaker\, producer\, photographer\, cinematographer\, screenwriter and cultural activist with over 25-years of hands-on experience in content creation\, film production\, design concurrence and branding\, and social media manager in both the documentary and narrative film sectors. \nHis extensive experience with arts groups includes working at the Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA)\, Association of Hispanic Arts (AHA)\, and Black Filmmaker Foundation. He also co-founded the PAX Theatre Community artist collective as a means of expanding community-based arts participation in the South Bronx. \nPagán has served on the boards of various organizations including the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) and was president of its New York chapter\, and more recently the Hispanic Organization of Latino Actors (HOLA). He has also served on numerous juries\, selection and curatorial committees for the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)\, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA)\, New York International Latino Film Festival and prestigious Tribeca Institutes’ Tribeca All Access Connects initiative\, among others. He has also curated the NewLatino Filmmakers Screening Series at Anthology Film Archives for the past 11 years.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2016-12-08-next-steps-now-session-ii/
LOCATION:322 UNION AVE\, BROOKLYN\, NY\, 11211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161210T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161210T210000
DTSTAMP:20260621T232544
CREATED:20161130T002650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180228T041345Z
UID:10002080-1481389200-1481403600@uniondocs.org
SUMMARY:COLD PIZZA
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” css_animation=”fadeIn” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeIn”]Everyone loves Cold Pizza! ‘Tis the season to warm up\, and let loose with our Holiday pizza/dance party at UnionDocs! Featuring drinks to stay toasty warm\, cold pizza to fuel your fire\, and the stylings of the DJs from Sbarro Soundsystem to keep you getting down on the dance floor! Join us to say good riddance to 2016 as we usher in the Holiday season. Come on through to celebrate\, bring your best moves\, have a drink\, eat some cold pizza all in support of the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio![/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”PARTY TIME!” color=”white” css_animation=”fadeIn” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”FREE ENTRY!” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_custom_heading text=”COLD PIZZA!” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_custom_heading text=”HOT DRINKS!” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_custom_heading text=”DANCING! \n” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_custom_heading text=”All proceeds go to the productions of the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio!” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”SEE YOU THERE!” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”DANCING! \n” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42476″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Sbarro Soundsystem was birthed three years ago on a train somewhere between Connecticut and New York. Since then\, the duo have been performing regularly in and around NYC\, playing a hodge-podge of electonica\, hip hop\, pop\, and everything inauthentic in between[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”*** #NoDAPL ANNOUNCEMENT ***” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_column_text]We also want to spread some of our warmth up to the North Dakota Plains\, where the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe continues to peacefully protect the water with thousands of others from the Dakota Access Pipeline Area. Winter on the plains is brutal\, and the camps are in desperate need of firewood and other supplies. We want to do what we can to lend a hand. \nThere will be an opportunity for you to donate at the door for towards supporting #NoDAPL and receipts will be available should you need them. \nCold pizza is the best\, but water is life![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2016-12-10-cold-pizza-uniondocs-holiday-party/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://uniondocs.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Cold-Pizza-Holiday-Party-no-text.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161211T023000
DTSTAMP:20260621T232544
CREATED:20161128T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180303T015849Z
UID:10002070-1481398200-1481423400@uniondocs.org
SUMMARY:Cold Pizza: UnionDocs Holiday Party!
DESCRIPTION:Everyone loves Cold Pizza! ‘Tis the season to warm up\, and let loose with our Holiday pizza/dance party at UnionDocs! Featuring drinks to stay toasty warm\, cold pizza to fuel your fire\, and the stylings of the DJs from Sbarro Soundsystem to keep you getting down on the dance floor! Join us to say good riddance to 2016 as we usher in the Holiday season. Come on through to celebrate\, bring your best moves\, have a drink\, eat some cold pizza all in support of the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio! \nFREE ENTRY \nCOLD PIZZA \nHOT DRINKS \nDANCING! \nSEE YOU THERE!\n*** #NoDAPL ANNOUNCEMENT *** \nWe also want to spread some of our warmth up to the North Dakota Plains\, where the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe continues to peacefully protect the water with thousands of others from the Dakota Access Pipeline Area. Winter on the plains is brutal\, and the camps are in desperate need of firewood and other supplies. We want to do what we can to lend a hand. \nThere will be an opportunity for you to donate at the door for towards supporting #NoDAPL and receipts will be available should you need them. \nCold pizza is the best\, but water is life! \n\nDJs\n \nSbarro Soundsystem was birthed three years ago on a train somewhere between Connecticut and New York. Since then\, the duo have been performing regularly in and around NYC\, playing a hodge-podge of electronica\, hip hop\, pop\, and everything inauthentic in between \n  \n  \n  \n\n 
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2016-12-10-cold-pizza-uniondocs-holiday-party-2/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161212T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161216T123000
DTSTAMP:20260621T232544
CREATED:20161104T014702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180228T041345Z
UID:10002073-1481511600-1481891400@uniondocs.org
SUMMARY:Full Spectrum Storytelling Intensive Winter 2016
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From broadcast journalism to branded podcasts to live radio events\, audio is hot. Now\, more than ever before\, independent radio producers are in demand. But in order to succeed in a quickly evolving and growing audio space\, you need to master more than just audio recording and editing techniques. Yesterday’s radio producer is today’s multimedia producer. \nToday\, independent radio producers need to do everything from audio editing and scoring to branding and design\, live event planning to contract management\, fact-checking to sound design\, in order to produce something new — that proverbial “boundary-pushing” piece of media. Over the course of this week\, you’ll learn skills from an interdisciplinary group of specialists that will help make you a better generalist\, to position you for the bright and exciting future of radio. Leaders Isaac Kestenbaum and Josie Holtzman will draw from lessons learned through their recent multiproject public media project\, Frontier of Change\, which required them to wear many hats\, sometimes all at once: oral historians\, radio producers\, event planners\, designers\, composers\, audio tour producers — and more. \nThroughout the week\, producers will have the opportunity to create a multimedia audio project culminating in a final event at Union Docs.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”Details” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_tta_accordion style=”outline” shape=”square” color=”white” active_section=”8″ no_fill=”true” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Where?” tab_id=”1477608256488-ac7d3d1a-ae9008ee-7332″][vc_column_text]All classes take place at UnionDocs in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. There will be an evening excursion\, a happy hour\, and a lunch on Monday. Participation is encouraged\, but optional.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”When?” tab_id=”1478207011553-a7f43e64-b32a”][vc_column_text]December 12 – 16 2016 \n+++Full attendance is mandatory. If you are unable to attend each day of the intensive\, please do not apply. Class meets from 10AM – 5:30PM\, Monday through Friday. Lunch is on your own except for Monday. Snacks provided.+++[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Who is eligible?” tab_id=”1478206910369-b6cd30ad-e549″][vc_column_text]Full Spectrum has a competitive application process. We are looking for mid-career producers and story-first technologists from all walks of the media industry and beyond who have demonstrable skills in digital sound gathering\, editing and mixing. \nFilmmakers and those whose primary focus has been print\, visual or moving image are strongly encouraged to attend\, as well. \nAIR membership is not required\, though AIR members are eligible for a small travel stipend. A work sample is required with your application. \nPlease note: Participants *will not* be producing a piece during the week. Focus is on listening and discussion.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Technology Requirements” tab_id=”1477608488046-a8fa4720-501608ee-7332″][vc_column_text]In order to keep costs down\, this workshop is a BYOL\, i.e. bring your own laptop. Students must be fully proficient using and operating their computers.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Application & Payment” tab_id=”1477608256642-4c32d845-e84308ee-7332″][vc_column_text]Application Deadline: 5 p.m. PT Friday\, November 4\, 2016.\nNOTE: Only complete applications can be considered.\nWinter Session Deposit Deadline/Rates:\nDeposit: $75\nTuition: $850\nIf accepted\, total payment is due: November 25\, 2016 \nApply here![/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Questions?” tab_id=”1478207482295-41b94d06-5190″][vc_column_text]Questions? Contact us at inquiry@airmedia.org.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Section” tab_id=”1478207689437-a3744373-a2c2″][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”2016 Class Overview” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”IN THE BEGINNING” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]First things first: good storytelling — beginning with oral history and folk history practices\, the magic questions and the recorded conversation. From Terkel to Isay’s StoryCorps\, what does this technique offer today’s journalists? Quite a bit. From ethical issues of treating your subjects with respect\, to the best way to ask the tough and awkward questions\, these oral history foundations will create a foundation of interviewing best practices\, for any situation or subject. Former StoryCorps facilitator turned reporter Adriana Gallardo will speak about best practices that span oral history and investigative journalism. And why good listening is an art in itself. \nInstructors: Isaac Kestenbaum\, Adriana Gallardo (ProPublica)[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”DESIGN MATTERS” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Can you judge a podcast by its cover? We all do\, whether we realize it or not. This unit will serve as a design boot camp for audio producers\, covering the basics of logo design\, branding and user experience — from the ubiquitous podcast cover images to personal websites and business cards. Jen Ng\, designer behind award-winning podcast “The Heart\,” will share best practices from the show’s recent redesign and lead us through some of the best podcast logos and radio websites to learn how to visually stand out in the growing crowd. Jen will help you brand your podcast\, or rebrand an existing one\, and go through the basics of designing for iTunes and the growing number of podcast apps and platforms. \nInstructor: Jen Ng (UX/UI Designer\, “The Heart”)[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”PODCAST AND LOOSE” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Everyone has a podcast these days. Even Isaac’s dad has a podcast (no joke). But how do you make your podcast stand out — how do you develop the concept to establish a unique style and voice\, and find your audience? As Executive Producer of Show Development\, Gretta Cohn has led the development of numerous shows on Midroll/Earwolf’s expanding podcast roster. She has launched podcasts\, including “Beautiful/Anonymous\,” “Katie Couric” and “Fake the Nation.” She will talk about what catches her ear and why\, pull back the curtain on the development process\, and give you the opportunity to pitch your own podcast idea. \nInstructor: Gretta Cohn (Executive Producer\, Midroll/Earwolf Media) \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”SOUND AND THE FURY AND THE FUNKY” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \nThe quality of radio and podcasting is going up and up\, and with it\, producers are required to be expert sound designers\, editors and engineers. Andrew Chugg\, director of Panoply Custom (audio arm of the podcast network at The Slate Group) and owner of the creative audio studio Gilded Audio Design\, will lead an audio boot camp that will cover scoring\, sound design and mastering for beautifully sound-rich audio pieces. We’ll also cover how to set up a home studio on the cheap\, the basics of music mixing\, how to record 3-D (binaural) sound\, and a few other tips that make all the difference. \nInstructors: Anthony Mattana (Hooke Audio) Andrew Chugg (Gilded Audio Design\, Panoply Custom) \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”BEYOND MULTIMEDIA//EVENT HORIZON” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]There is no box — this unit will delve into some of the strangest corners of audio and media production\, using multimedia and multisensory experience to create stuff that is out there\, just plain weird\, but always forward thinking. We’ll go beyond the latest tech to explore timeless multimedia platforms — including letterpress\, crayon rubbings and food. Yes\, food. We’ll explore how low-budget and lo-fi can be harnessed to create cutting-edge audio projects. And we’ll take audio to the streets — to explore experimental ways of reaching new audiences. Award-winning producer\, sound-artist and poet Pejk Malinovski will explore the “soundwalk” and other forms of site-specific audio that combine place\, story\, sound and serendipity to make something totally special. \nInstructors: Josie Holtzman\, Pejk Malinovski (formerly WNYC) \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”BONUS” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]We live in an age of spectacle and live interaction\, and audio is getting on board — from live storytelling events\, to staged radio shows\, to dance performances (Ira Glass is touring with a dance company). Throwing a successful live event requires a little bit of everything\, and you don’t have to be a seasoned event planner or Excel wiz to create an engaging experience. Learn from the best how it’s done\, and then plan a live event that we’ll premiere at UnionDocs at the end of the class. \nInstructor: Sophia Paliza-Carre (WNYC\, formerly “The Moth” and Localore: Finding America)[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Schedule” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]10:00a[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Warm up\, inspiring references\, case study\, eye training.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]10:30a[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Presentation by guest speaker + individual work-in-progress critique[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]11:45a[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Discussion[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]12:30p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Share / Discussion / Exercise[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]1:00p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Lunch (on your own)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]2:00p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text] \nSeminar Presentation* \n* On Tuesday and Thursday\, the afternoon will be dedicated to student workshopping. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]3:15p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Discussion[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]4:00p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Workshop Exercise + Critique[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]5:00p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Wrap Up[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Bios” color=”white” el_class=” \n“][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42233″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Josephine Holtzman\, co-creator of “Frontier of Change” part of AIR’s Localore: Finding America initiative\, is a Brooklyn-based multimedia storyteller\, with a focus in audio documentary and interactive soundwalks. A graduate of Vassar College and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies\, she is currently a producer for the NPR Music’s first multi-platform program “Jazz Night in America”.  Podcast production includes The Trip\, 54Below\, and Make Time.  Her reporting has aired on Weekend Edition\, All Things Considered\, Studio 360\, and on the ReSound podcast.  She is co-founder of the climate change audio project\, Winters Past.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42234″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Isaac Kestenbaum is a writer and multimedia producer.  He is the former Production Manager at StoryCorps\, where he won a George Foster Peabody Award and an Alfred I. duPont award for work commemorating the tenth anniversary of September 11\, 2001.  He is currently the general manager at Cowbird\, an online library of human experience and storytelling platform founded by the visionary artist Jonathan Harris.  Isaac’s writing has appeared in Mental Floss\, Maine Magazine\, Down East magazine\, the Portland Press Herald\, Underwater New York\, among others.  He holds a degree in sociology and English from Vassar College\, and is also a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42235″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Andrew Chugg is podcast producer\, sound designer\, record producer and music supervisor. He has produced and scored podcasts for Panoply\, WNYC\, Anthology and Dublab. His record production discography includes titles with Sacred Bones Records and Mexican Summer. He is owner of the creative audio studio\, Gilded Audio Design as well as Director of Panoply Custom\, an audio arm of the podcast network at The Slate Group specializing in custom podcasts for clients. The New York Times claimed that in some recent music supervision work he “Enforc[es] a consistently mellow tone with inspired musical choices”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42236″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Gretta Cohn is Executive Producer for Show Development at Earwolf/Midroll Media\, home to top comedy and pop culture podcasts including Comedy Bang Bang\, How Did This Get Made\, Longest Shortest Time and Beautiful/Anonymous. She works with hosts\, talent\, storytellers and producers to generate ideas\, create engaging work and grow audience. She was previously a producer for Freakomonics Radio as well as WNYC’s Soundcheck\, where she created the Tough Critics video series. She’s also a cellist and former member of the band Cursive.  [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42238″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Sophia Paliza-Carre currently produces an affordability series at WNYC\, a multi-platform line of reporting aiming to answer the question “Who can afford to live in New York?” Her work over the next nine months will focus on mounting a series of “residencies” for WNYC in transitioning neighborhoods around the city.  Previously she developed and led a 9-month public art and radio storytelling project about identity and community in Tucson\, Arizona as part of AIR’s Localore: Finding America initiative. Before undertaking that project\, she was a producer for The Moth in New York City. For the next few months\, you can find her in the South Bronx![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42239″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Jen Ng is a user experience designer in the agency world who also creates visuals for Radiotopia’s The Heart — making the show look the way it sounds. Past work includes We the People’s web design (hosted by Josh Zepps of HuffPost Live). Her latest project explores listeners’ relationships with audio content to help her design intuitive and branded touchpoints for podcasts.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42240″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Pejk Malinovski went to a Marxist kindergarten in his hometown of Copenhagen. He is a poet\, translator and radio producer. His radio dramas\, conceptual documentaries and sound art pieces have aired on radio stations around the world (including New York’s own WNYC and the BBC) and been shown in museums and galleries. In 2012 he launched Passing Stranger  an audio walking tour of the East Village’s poetry history. He was also the co-creator and host of Thirdear an online audio magazine and he continues to edit and translate books for Forlaget Basilisk a poet-run publishing house in Copenhagen. In 2014 he won the Prix Europa for his work “Everything\, Nothing\, Harvey Keitel.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”42241″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Adriana Gallardo is an engagement reporter at ProPublica based in New York City. As the network manager for AIR’s Localore: Finding America\, she oversaw a national series of 15 multimedia and community projects with NPR affiliate stations. Before joining AIR\, she travelled the country as a facilitator with the StoryCorps mobile booth\, collecting more than 400 local stories. In her hometown Chicago\, she spent over a decade working in journalism as a print writer\, online editor and radio producer.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2016-12-12-full-spectrum-storytelling-intensive-winter-2016-2/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Labs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161218T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161218T223000
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CREATED:20161205T182208Z
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Color
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]Special Preview Screening before theatrical release\, courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories. \nIn the summer of 2015\, legendary musician David Byrne staged an event at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center to celebrate the art of Color Guard: synchronized dance routines involving flags\, rifles\, and sabers. Recruiting performers that include the likes of St. Vincent\, Nelly Furtado\, Ad-Rock\, and Ira Glass to collaborate on original pieces with 10 color guard teams from across the US and Canada\, Contemporary Color is a beautifully filmed snapshot of a one-of-a-kind live event.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program Feature” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”Contemporary Color” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”107 min.\, 2016 ” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \n“An entirely original blend of psychedelic experiences with a realistic window into American life.”\n—Eric Kohn\, INDIEWIRE\n \nNominated for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography and Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score\, Cinema Eye Honors Awards 2017\n \nWon Awards for Best Cinematography in a Documentary Feature and Best Editing in a Documentary Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival 2016\n[/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=”107 min” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”47037″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]The Ross Brothers (Bill Ross and Turner Ross) are an independent filmmaking team whose works have been featured at museums and festivals throughout the world. They are best known for a series of documentary portraits celebrating contemporary American culture: 45365 (2009)\, Tchoupitoulas (2012)\, Western (2015) – and now Contemporary Color (2016)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”47038″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]David Byrne is an Esteemed musician and is the force behind Talking Heads and has a prolific and expansive solo career. He has published and exhibited visual art for decades\, including photography and films\, and has published both fiction and non-fiction writing to great acclaim. Among his many accolades are Grammy\, Oscar\, and Golden Globe awards.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2016-12-19-contemporary-color/
LOCATION:322 UNION AVE\, BROOKLYN\, NY\, 11211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170105T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170105T220000
DTSTAMP:20260621T232544
CREATED:20161209T200908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180228T041345Z
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SUMMARY:Attica
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]Unavailable for 33 years\, Attica (Cinda Firestone\, US\, 1974) still is a sobering and revealing look into the heart of American justice\, weighing the costs of institutional dishonesty and abuses of power against the price some will pay to retain human dignity. In light of current events\, the privatization of prisons incentivizing growth\, and reports of torture and other ill-treatment of detainees by US authorities in Afghanistan\, Guantanamo Bay\, Iraq\, and at other secret locations\, Attica has particularly significant relevance today. \nIn this evening we will gather to watch this impactful film through a contemporary lens where the the realities of mass incarceration and prison injustice are still as relevant as ever and a touchstone in the fraught conversation around abuse of power\, and rising inequality. We are excited to invite Brett Story to discuss looking back on this historic moment with Attica\, and compare and contrast history and the present after her experience and research in making the 2016 essay documentary A Prison in 12 Landscapes.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”Attica” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”80 min.\, 1974\, 16mm” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Social unrest in the United States hit a boiling point on September 9\, 1971\, when inmates at Attica State Prison — after months of protesting inhumane living conditions — revolted\, seizing part of the prison and taking 39 hostages. The uprising resulted in the death of 43 people after troopers were called in to suppress the rioters. Three years later\, Cinda Firestone released this monumental investigation of the rebellion and its aftermath\, piecing together documentary footage of the occupation and ensuing assault with video from the McKay Commission hearings that criticized Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller’s handling of the incident and firsthand interviews with prisoners discharged after the event.[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”The Prison in 12 Landscapes (excerpt)” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”90 min.\, 2016″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]More people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history\, yet the prison itself has never felt further away or more out of sight. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is a film about the prison in which we never see a penitentiary. Instead\, the film unfolds as a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives\, from a California mountainside where female prisoners fight raging wildfires\, to a Bronx warehouse full of goods destined for the state correctional system\, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs. \nWith support from Cinereach\, Vital Projects Fund\, the Canada Council for the Arts\, the Toronto Arts Council\, the Ontario Arts Council\, and the National Film Board of Canada.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”95 min” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”BIOS” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51354″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Brett Story is a writer and independent non-fiction filmmaker based out of Toronto and New York. Her films have screened at True/False\, Oberhausen\, Hot Docs\, the Viennale\, and Dok Leipzig\, among other festivals. Her first feature-length film\, the award-winning Land of Destiny (2010)\, screened internationally and was broadcast on both Canadian and American television. Her second feature documentary\, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) was awarded the Special Jury Prize for Canadian Feature Documentary at Hot Docs\, the Prize for Best Canadian Documentary at the DOXA Documentary Festival\, and a Special Jury Mention at the Camden International Film Festival. The film will be broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2017. Her journalism and film criticism have appeared in such outlets as CBC Radio and The Nation magazine\,and she is currently completing a book manuscript for the University of California Press titled The Prison out of Place. Brett holds a PhD in geography from the University of Toronto and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Place\, Culture and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She was the recipient of the Documentary Organization of Canada Institute’s 2014 New Visions Award and the 2016 Governor General’s Gold Medal from the University of Toronto for academic excellence. Brett is a 2016-2017 Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Fellow.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51342″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Cinda Firestone has always been and still is a rebel with a cause. At age 15 while attending Miss Porter’s in Farmington\, Connecticut— a famous boarding school\, she initiated a campaign to make church attendance voluntary. This caused the two ministers in the two local churches in Farmington to preach sermons against her. \nLater Cinda attended Sarah Lawrence College where she was a member of the Strike Committee that closed down the school in protest against the Vietnam War. She also was jailed during the Columbia University anti-Vietnam War uprising\, and devoted her senior year as editor of the college newspaper to getting rid of the new President of Sarah Lawrence – who was an ex-Vice President of IBM who believed that artists could be replaced by machines. Cinda Firestone was a mere 25 years old when\, in 1974\, she created the landmark documentary film\, Attica. \nFollowing Attica Cinda made three more documentaries\, South Beach\, Retirement and Mountain People on the different ways people retire or choose not to. After this\, she devoted herself to reading and writing\, and became involved in Children’s Theater writing three original musicals with music by her son\, William Fox\, one of which\, Questionable Quest\, played successfully at the Beacon Theater in New York City.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Many thanks to the Reserve Film and Video Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts for lending ATTICA for this screening. Preservation of this film was made possible by a grant from the Women’s Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film and Television.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-01-05-attica/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170108T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170108T220000
DTSTAMP:20260621T232544
CREATED:20161213T000431Z
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SUMMARY:Front Range Cinema
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]Nestled just east of the Rocky Mountains\, in the high plains desert of the Front Range\, we find one of North America’s most vibrant experimental filmmaking communities. Dating back to the early 50’s with Bruce Connor and Stan Brakhage\, the University of Colorado’s Film Studies program remains an important outpost in the American avant-garde. This rocky mountain enclave continues to churn out a fine cinematic terroir\, cultivating filmmakers and an experimental film pedagogy that is envied across the nation. CU Boulder\, as it is known\, remains dedicated to nurturing daring works that probe both notions of what is cinema as well as ideas of how to engage in a documentary practice. This program showcases student and faculty works including films by David Gatten\, Jeanne Liotta\, Erin Espelie\, Kelly Sears\, Geoff Marslett\, Andrew Busti\, Sarah Biagini\, Samantha Pollak and as well as curator Adam Sekuler. \n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times To Come” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”David Gatten\, 2010\, 9 min” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”26 Pulse Wrought Vol 1: Windows for Recursive Triangulation” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Andrew Busti\, 2014\, 3 min” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Property” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Jeanne Liotta\, 2013\, 4 min” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Border Wall Doc ” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Geoff Marslett\, 2014\, 9 min” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Pattern For Survival ” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Kelly Sears\, 2015\, 7 min\n” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”视网膜 (A Net to Catch the Light)” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Erin Espelie\, 2016\, 7 min” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Western Dolly” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Sarah Biagini\, 2014\, 12 min” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Pavilion” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Adam Sekuler\, Shannon Stewart\, 2015\, 4 min” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Bubbie” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Samantha Pollak\, 2015\, 8 min” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”My Life In Google” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Adam Sekuler\, 2015\, 24 min” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”87 min” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”BIOS” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51407″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Adam Sekuler is a filmmaker and curator living in Boulder Colorado. He served a decade as the program director of Northwest Film Forum in Seattle where he organized touring programs including a nineteen film Shohei Imamura retrospective. He also launched their film distribution program shepherding films by Pedro Costa\, Lisandro Alsonso\, Serge Bozon\, Albert Serra\, Valerie Massadian amongst others into the North American film market. Along with choreographer Shannon Stewart\, he regularly tours dance film programs through their series Radar: Exchanges In Dance Film Frequencies. His films strike a delicate balance between stylization and naturalism\, anchored within an observational world while creating a poetic and lyrical form of visual storytelling. His work has screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Locarno Film Festival\, Anthology Film Archives\, Walker Art Center\, Seattle Art Museum\, and dozens of other venues across the globe. In 2007\, his short film Pathe Ballet won a prize at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51392″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]JEANNE LIOTTA makes films\, videos\, and other ephemera including installed projections\, works on paper\, and photographic works. \nHer works encompass a constellation of mediums and interests often located at a lively intersection of art\, science\, and natural philosophy. \nIn 2011 Liotta was voted among the top filmmakers of the decade by Film Comment magazine\, and in she 2012 received the Helen Hill award from the Orphans Film Symposium. In 2013 Anthology Film Archives held a retrospective of her work called THE REAL WORLD AT LAST BECOMES A MYTH\, and she installed STEIN TIMES (2013) an altered Gertrude Stein poem in the windows of Gridspace Gallery\, Bklyn. She also works with Microscope Gallery in Bushwick\, Bklyn. \nIn 2014 she collaborated on an art/science project with the NOAA\, creating SOON (2014)\, a media work about climate change for a 360 degree screening platform which premiered at The Fiske Planetarium in Boulder CO . \nHer works are exhibited internationally\, including The New York and Rotterdam Film Festivals\, The 2006 Whitney Biennial\, The 2013 Sharjah Biennial\, The Centres George Pompidou\, The Cinematheque Francais\, The Arthouse/ Jones Center in Austin\, The Exploratorium in San Francisco\, The Wexner Center for the Art in Ohio\, The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver\, and the Cornell Astronomical Society amongst other venues. \nFor 17 years she was the creative force behind Firefly Cinema\, a community garden microcinema curated from the 16mm collection at The New York Public Library\, and she also maintains ongoing research and lectures on The Joseph Cornell Film Collection at Anthology Film Archives in New York. \nShe has taught widely and variously over the years\, and is presently Assistant Professor in Film Studies at The University of Colorado Boulder\, as well as Film/Video faculty for the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-01-08-front-range-cinema/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170112T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170112T213500
DTSTAMP:20260621T232544
CREATED:20170103T175220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180228T041344Z
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SUMMARY:Broadening the Lens on Indigenous Resistance
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]In this session we lay out the main ideas for the coming year;  what are roles for human rights filmmaking in the face of our deeply divided country\, and how do we build and strengthen human rights media in this new era?  Reflecting the historic organizing and resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline spearheaded by the Standing Rock Sioux people we will highlight several media makers who have been involved in this resistance. We are interested in discussing the relationship between human rights media making and the organizing of resistance movements.  What does this collaboration look like and how does it work?  Who has final cut\, and who has content control? In what way is media used to further the organizing\, and does it help to bridge ideological divides? \nThis program is a part of our monthly series BK@24FPS with Skylight Pictures where we explore documentary as a way to expand dialogue around the intersection of human rights and art.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”Work from Angelo Baca & Jacqueline Hazen” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”20 min.” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Work From Julie Bridgham & Amber Fares” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”20 min.” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Work From Matt Peterson” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”20 min.” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”60 min” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51658″ img_size=”300×300″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nAngelo Baca\, Navajo and Hopi filmmaker\, is a doctoral student in NYU’s Anthropology department. He is also a graduate of the Native Voices Program at the University of Washington and has done numerous documentaries and collaborative works with other filmmakers. He has taught both Native American Literature and Native American Media courses. His research varies from indigenous food sovereignty and Native American health\, to indigenous film and native youth development projects\, including indigenous international repatriation and sacred lands protection\, particularly around Bears Ears in southeastern Utah. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51654″ img_size=”300×300″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Julie Bridgham is an award winning Director and Producer of documentary film and television with over 15 years of experience. She was the Director and Producer for the multi-award winning documentary feature “The Sari Soldiers\,” for which she was granted a Sundance Institute Documentary Fellowship\, and was the recipient of the Nestor Almendros Prize for courage and commitment in human rights filmmaking.  She has directed numerous documentary series and feature films that have taken her around the globe\, and has produced for CBS\, BBC\, the Discovery Channel\, TLC\, and the Travel Channel\, among others. She lived in Nepal for over seven years\, where she produced and directed films for the United Nations World Food Programme and The Nepal Youth Foundation\, in addition to “The Sari Soldiers”\, and the feature documentary in-progress “At the Edge of Sufficient.” Prior to working in documentary film and television she was a Project Officer with the United Nations for the project “Ecologically Sustainable Industrial Development” in Costa Rica\, and was a researcher for the human rights organization Andean Information Network in Bolivia. Most recently\, Julie is the Producer and Director for the interactive trans-media documentary “Shifting Borders” following Nepali migrant workers in Qatar\, and is an Executive Producer for the feature documentary “Drawing the Tiger.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Matt Peterson has been working with Malek Rasamny since 2014 on The Native and the Refugee\, a multi-media documentary project profiling the spaces of the Indian reservation and Palestinian refugee camp. This work has been shown in Jordan\, Lebanon\, Palestine\, Syria\, and in native territories throughout North America. In 2014 he completed a feature film on the Tunisian insurrection\, Scenes from a Revolt Sustained. His writings have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail\, Death+Taxes\, Electronic Intifada\, Evergreen Review\, Idiom\, The L\, Muftah\, the New Inquiry\, the New York Press\, and ROAR. He was a member of the collectives Red Channels and the 16 Beaver Group\, and is currently part of a commune in New York called Woodbine.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-01-12-broadening-the-lens-on-indigenous-resistance/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:BK@24fps,Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170115T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170115T210000
DTSTAMP:20260621T232544
CREATED:20161216T051410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180228T143908Z
UID:10002282-1484506800-1484514000@uniondocs.org
SUMMARY:Why Does the History of Squatting in NYC Matter?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]In the 1980s and 90s the Lower East Side of Manhattan was home to a squatting movement unlike any other in the United States. Drawing on their diverse radical and progressive roots\, squatters claimed and occupied city-owned abandoned building with a winning combination: a Yippie sense of drama and fun\, punk rock aggression and subcultural grit\, and urban homesteaders’ earnest appeals to American values of self-sufficiency and initiative. When faced with eviction they learned how to build barricades and booby traps and drum up riots from their European counterparts\, and each attempt to evict Lower East Side squatters from the late ‘80s on brought newly escalated police and squatter tactics.  By the mid-1990s\, the police were using tanks and helicopters and the squatters were overturning cars in the streets. \nIn 2002\, after three years of secret negotiations\, the city shocked everyone involved when it agreed to sell the remaining squatted buildings\, for one dollar each\, to a non-profit (UHAB – the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board) which would take out loans on the squatters’ behalf to renovate the buildings and bring them up to code. The former squats would then be converted to limited-equity low-income co-operatives and the renovation loans would become mortgages. Illegal squatters would thus be transformed into indebted homeowners\, problematic unsellable buildings into low-income housing. This was easier said than done: by 2013\, only five of the eleven buildings in the legalization deal had been converted into co-ops. \nIn this event\, we will share documentary works on this history and ask the question: Why is this story worth documenting? What does it mean today? [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City ” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Ethnography\, 2016\, University of Chicago ” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]An ethnography based on oral histories that tells the story of squatter’s long and complicated transition from illegal squatting to co-operative homeownership.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”La Siembra del Hogar / Sowing Homes ” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Multimedia\, 2016″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]A multimedia ground mural at Extra Place alley in the Lower East Side\, inspired by oral histories with squatters and current Bushwick residents fighting off displacement.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Jerry the Peddler” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Doc-in-Progress ” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Meet Jerry. He’s been squatting on NYC’s Lower East Side for over 35 years. And he’s been at the center of a patchwork of hippies\, yippies\, punks & anarchists. Experience the world through Jerry’s eyes. And be warned: his organizing tools include weed\, beer & psychedelic punk.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”War in the Neighborhood ” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Graphic Novel\, 1999″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]A 328 page graphic novel about the struggles over homelessness\, gentrification\, police brutality and human rights that raged in the area surrounding New York’s Tompkins Square park in the 1980s and 90s. It is a first hand account of the Squatters movement during which abandoned buildings were seized to make low income housing\, and then had to be defended within a divided community.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Comics and Graphic Novels by Fly ” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Fly has been part of the LES Squat community starting in the late 80s. Since 1995 she began the UnREal Estate Project; documenting the LES Squatter Movement (and European Squats to a lesser extent) with photos\, drawings and writing as well as compiling an Archive of printed matter and ephemera. Fly began working with Booklyn (a Brooklyn based Book Arts Collective) in the late 90s to collect and catalogue her extensive personal archive. In approximately 2011 Fly started working with Amy Starecheski continuing this work as well as compiling video taped oral histories of many of the original squatters. \nFly has done many slideshow history talks of the UnReal Estate Project on the east coast and west coast of USA as well as International Squatter Conferences in Rotterdam and Napoli. URE is also planned as a multi-volume book project; the first volume will be titled You Don’t Know Squat is currently in progress and will be co-edited by Fly-0 and Amy Starecheski. \nThe UnReal Estate Project contributors are members of a loosely defined collective known as U.R.E.L.I.C. aka the UnReal Estate Living Improvements Committee.[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_text_separator title=”90 min” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51646″ img_size=”200×200″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Amy Starecheski is a former squatter\, cultural anthropologist and oral historian whose research focuses on property and history in cities. She co-directs the Oral History MA Program at Columbia University and has a PhD in cultural anthropology from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her book\, Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City\, came out in 2016 with the University of Chicago Press. In 2016 she won the SAPIENS-Allegra “Will the Next Margaret Mead Please Stand Up?” prize for public anthropology writing.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51648″ img_size=”200×200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Fly-0 is an Illustrator\, Comics Artist\, Painter\, Graphic Designer\, Teacher\, Writer\, Musician and long-time LES Squatter\, Activist & Squat Historian. She has been self-publishing zines and comics since the mid 80s and her work has appeared in the Village Voice\, Juxtapoze\, Punk Magazine\, Maximumrocknroll\, New York Press\, Comics Journal\, SF Bay Guardian and multiple other publications. Fly was the recipient of a 2013 Acker Award for “Excellence Within the Avant-Garde” for her long running PEOPs Project :: an ever expanding collection of portraits and stories of extraordinary people who live life with passion and conviction. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51650″ img_size=”200×200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]DW Gibson is the author of the awarding-winning book The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century and Not Working: People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today’s Changing Economy. He shared a National Magazine Award for his work on “One Block” for New York Magazine. His work has also appeared in Harper’s\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Nation\, The Village Voice\, and The Caravan. Gibson has been a contributor to NPR’s All Things Considered and “There Goes the Neighborhood\,” a podcast co-produced by WNYC and The Nation. His documentary film\, Not Working\, a companion to the book\, is available through Films Media Group. His directorial debut\, Pants Down\, premiered at Anthology Film Archives in New York. Gibson serves as director of Writers Omi at Ledig House in Ghent\, New York\, and he co-founded Sangam House\, a writers’ residency in India\, along with Arshia Sattar.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”52297″ img_size=”200×200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Cooperativa Cultural 19 de enero (CC 1/19) is an ongoing collaboration between visual artist Raul Ayala and oral history artist Fernanda Espinosa. Since 2015 they have been creating public interventions containing place-based histories. For more information the two of them and this project\, visit: http://fabnyc.org/2016/06/23/spotlight-raul-ayala-fernanda-espinosa-ii/[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51345″ img_size=”200×200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Seth Tobocman is a comic book artist whose work often deals with political issues from a radical and independent point of view. He founded the magazine World War 3 Illustrated with Peter Kuper in 1979 and has been part of the editorial collective ever since. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Village Voice\, Heavy Metal and many other magazines. He is author of a number of graphic books including: YOU DON’T HAVE TO FUCK PEOPLE OVER TO SURVIVE\, WAR IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD\, PORTRAITS OF ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS\, DISASTER AND RESISTANCE\, UNDERSTANDING THE CRASH\, and LEN (a lawyer in history). \nTobocman’s art has been shown at the Museum Of Modern Art\, The New Museum Of Contemporary Art\, The Museum Of The City Of Ravenna\, Exit Art and Abcnorio.\nHis images have been used as posters\, murals\, banners and tattoos by peoples movements from Squatters in New York’s Lower East Side to the African National Congress in South Africa.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-01-15-squatting-in-nyc/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170120T050000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170122T120000
DTSTAMP:20260621T232544
CREATED:20161201T173901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180228T143908Z
UID:10002231-1484888400-1485086400@uniondocs.org
SUMMARY:The Podcast School
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]SOLD OUT! This course is at capacity and is currently not accepting any more participants at this time. If you are interested in joining the waitlist in the case of any cancellations please select “Join the Waitlist” at checkout. Doing this will also give you priority registration for the next offering of PODCAST SCHOOL.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]An exceptional group of professional podcasters\, radio writers\, producers and entrepreneurs help you develop your audio practice and podcasting vision. \nToday\, anyone can become a broadcaster\, but hosting a successful listener-supported podcast is a professional engagement. A successful podcaster has a great dose of imagination and a strong entrepreneurial initiative along with many technical skills\, from audio engineering and radio journalism to sound storytelling and online marketing. \nThis seminar will offer mid-level to advanced producers tools and skill sets for navigating through the podcasting revolution and finding their own path in this emergent medium. \nOver the course of 3-days\, 15 participants will learn from a team of seasoned practitioners from the radio and podcast industry— public radio reporters\, sound engineers\, radio auteurs and editors\, successful podcasters and media entrepreneurs. Through guest presentations\, listening sessions\, discussions\, group and individual exercises\, case studies and  work-in-progress critiques\, they will explore the creative and production processes behind podcasting: audio storytelling\, interviewing\, script writing\, editing\, voice performance\, mixing\, sound design to audience engagement\, distribution\, advertising and more \nThis workshop is three days; please only enroll if you can commit to the entire schedule. Also\, each participant will be invited to present his/her podcast project to the group and to one guest speaker (during the Work-in-Progress Workshops). In preparation to this short presentation\, an audio (or written) work sample will be requested a week prior to the workshop (January 13th).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”Details” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_tta_accordion style=”outline” shape=”square” color=”white” active_section=”8″ no_fill=”true” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Who is eligible?” tab_id=”1477608256488-ac7d3d1a-ae902a65-675b”][vc_column_text]This seminar is geared towards audio producers who already have a podcast\, or are in pre-production for a specific upcoming podcast. This workshop is not suitable for complete beginners\, and will not have a technical focus. If you are interested in audio production and/or don’t feel you are ready for this course\, please consider signing up for Radio Boot Camp\, or The Podcast School in August 2017  (dates TBC) also at UnionDocs. \nParticipants are accepted on a first-come\, first-serve basis.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Cost” tab_id=”1477608256642-4c32d845-e8432a65-675b”][vc_column_text]The fee for the intensive follows the schedule below. \n$385 – Early Bird Registration (January 9th\, 2017) \n$450 – Late Registration \nParticipants coming from outside NYC are responsible for their own transportation and room and board during the intensive. UnionDocs can provide assistance in locating housing and guidance for getting around town for those not native to New York.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Refund Policy” tab_id=”1477608441051-60d28267-92bf2a65-675b”][vc_column_text]Should you need to cancel\, you’ll receive half of your registration fee back until December 22nd. After December 22nd\, the fee is non-refundable.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Technology Requirements” tab_id=”1477608488046-a8fa4720-50162a65-675b”][vc_column_text]In order to keep costs down\, this workshop is a BYOL\, i.e. bring your own laptop. Students must be fully proficient using and operating their computers.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Registration & Cancellation Policy” tab_id=”1477612055387-51381642-d1c72a65-675b”][vc_column_text]Should you need to cancel\, you’ll receive half of your registration fee back until December 22nd. After December 22nd\, the fee is non-refundable.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_message message_box_style=”solid” style=”square” message_box_color=”orange”]Please note: Participants are accepted on a first-come\, first-serve basis.[/vc_message][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Schedule” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”Friday\, Jan 22\, – 10:00a – 5:00p” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator color=”white”][vc_column_text]AM: Sruthi Pinnamaneni (Reply All / Gimlet Media) \nPM: Kaitlin Prest (The Heart / Radiotopia)[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Saturday\, Jan 23 – 10:00a – 5:00p” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator color=”white”][vc_column_text]AM: Benjamen Walker (Theory of Everything / Radiotopia) \nPM: Brittany Luse (For Colored Nerds / Acast – Sampler / Gimlet Media)[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Sunday\, Jan 24 – 10:00a – 5:00p” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator color=”white”][vc_column_text]AM : Nicholas Quah (Hot Pod) \nPM : Caitlin Thompson (Acast)[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Each day follows this general structure\, with some minor variations and substitutions:” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]9:45a[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Warm up\, introductions[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]10:00a[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Presentation by guest speaker[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]11:30a[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Discussion / Case study[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]12:00p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Student’s presentations / Work-in-Progress Workshop[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]1:00p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Lunch (on your own)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]2:00p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Presentation by guest speaker[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]3:30p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Discussion/ Case study[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]4:00p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Student’s presentations / Work-in-Progress Workshop[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_column_text]5:00p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]End[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Bios” color=”white” el_class=” \n“][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”43097″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Sruthi Pinnamaneni is a producer at Gimlet Media’s Reply All. Her work has aired on Studio 360\, Radiolab\, Freakonomics\, Marketplace and Love + Radio. She worked on the award-winning feature film\, Kumare.  As the audio/video correspondent at The Economist\, she traveled between cities and villages in India to produce a series on rural education and the informal economy in slums. Sruthi grew up in South India. She has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”43098″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Nicholas Quah writes and publishes Hot Pod\, a newsletter about podcasts that’s also syndicated on Nieman Lab. Previously\, he worked on audience development for Panoply\, Slate’s podcasting network\, and before that\, he held brief stints at BuzzFeed and Business Insider.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”43100″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Caitlin Thompson is the Director of Content at Acast\, a podcast platformbased in Stockholm\, Sweden. She’s worked as a development executive at WNYC\, in digital and multimedia roles at TIME\, The Washington Post and in public television. She thinks the future of podcasting sounds like women and people of color.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”43101″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Brittany Luse is host of Sampler\, a podcast about podcasts\, at Gimlet Media. She is also co-host of For Colored Nerds\, an independent podcast about race\, news and pop culture. She hails from Farmington Hills\, Michigan and is a very proud graduate of Howard University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51698″ img_size=”200×200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaitlin Prest is an audio artist working in radio\, performance and installation. She works creatively directing independent podcast projects (Audio Smut\, The Heart/Radiotopia\, Life of the Law/APM); and does public speaking and private consulting about storytelling with sound (Third Coast International Audio Festival\, UnionDocs\, Transom Story Workshop). Her documentary work was awarded the Hearsay Festival’s Overall Prize 2014\, and the National Community Radio Award’s Outstanding Achievement in Documentary 2011. \nPhoto: Ted Roeder \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”43103″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Benjamen Walker is a independent radio producer and host of the podcast Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything\, a founding member of the Radiotopia network. His work has aired on NPR\, the BBC\, the CBC and the ABC. He also produced a philosophy podcast for The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/profile/benjamen-walker). He created his first podcast in 2004 while working at the Berkman center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. From 2008 to 2010 he was WNYC’s Senior Culture producer and from 2010 to 2013\, he produced and hosted “Too Much Information” for WFMU (http://wfmu.org/playlists/TI) and curated their Radiovision conference in New York City (http://radiovision.wfmu.org). He has been a guest speaker and fellow at various festivals and international institutions (Sydney Writers’ Festival\, Les subsistances in Lyon\, France\, Poets House\, Tow Center at Columbia University\, Oorzaken Festival in Amsterdam). He also teaches in the Journalism and design program at the New School.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/the-podcast-school/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Labs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170122T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170122T220000
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CREATED:20170108T173307Z
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SUMMARY:Naked Voices
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]Dive into the emotionally complicated human mess with podcasters Nick van der Kolk and Jonathan Goldstein. \nHyper-honest and unreliable narrators\, full of desires\, conflicts\, regrets and self-deprecation take you beyond facts to reveal what makes life so unpredictable: relationships. Through naked voices and intimate stories\, we’ll discover familiar but singular worlds\, where each storyline unfolds as we listen…[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”Love + Radio” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=” Segments from the 5th season of Love and Radio” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]From Radiotopia and Nick van der Kolk\, Love and Radio features in-depth\, otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects\, from the seedy to the sublime. You’ve never heard anything like it before.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Heavyweight” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=” A selection of stories from Gimlet Media’s brand new podcast with Jonathan Goldstein\, Heavyweight.” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Heavyweight is a non-fiction podcast all about second chances. \n“Maybe you’ve laid awake imagining how it could have been\, how it might yet be\, but the moment to act was never right. Well\, the moment is here and the podcast making it happen is Heavyweight.”[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”75 min” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51562″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Nick van der Kolk is a radio producer\, sound designer\, events organizer\, and the host and creator of the critically acclaimed Love + Radio podcast. His work has appeared on This American Life\, The New York Times\, Snap Judgment\, Marketplace\, and numerous radio outlets worldwide. He is also the co-founder of Megapolis — an audio art and leftfield radio festival. His media career began in 2001 as a DJ and later station manager of his college’s 5-watt\, student-run station (slogan: “Stations with listeners have sold out”). He has won multiple awards from the Third Coast International Audio Festival\, and is a 2012 USA Artists Collins Fellow.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51563″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Sruthi Pinnamaneni is a producer at Gimlet Media’s Reply All. Her work has aired on Studio 360\, Radiolab\, Freakonomics\, Marketplace and Love + Radio. She worked on the award-winning feature film\, Kumare.  As the audio/video correspondent at The Economist\, she traveled between cities and villages in India to produce a series on rural education and the informal economy in slums. Sruthi grew up in South India. She has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”52062″ img_size=”200×200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Jonathan Goldstein’s writing has appeared in The Walrus\, The New York Times\, GQ\, and The National Post. He is a frequent contributor to PRI’s This American Life and the New York Times Magazine\, and was a 2002 co-recipient of The Third Coast Audio Festival’s Gold Prize. In 2004\, he was awarded a Canadian National Magazine award for humor. He is author of ‘Lenny Bruce is Dead’ and ‘Ladies and Gentlemen\, The Bible! and I’ll Seize the Day Tomorrow. He hosted and produced PRIs Wiretap for 11 years\, and he now has his own show: Heavyweight\, on Gimlet Media.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-01-22-naked-voices/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170126T193000
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SUMMARY:SALAMANCA
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]In Salamanca time stopped two hundred years ago\, when the first Mennonites came to Mexico in search of their place on the Earth. Here everything is predetermined\, and lives of the descendants are repeating lives of their ancestors. The private story here is only a part of family history\, and one man’s destiny tells us about any other one. While the hero of the film recalls his childhood in search of the right answer to the most important question of all his life\, days\, months\, and years slowly go by in Salamanca. \nPREMIERE SCREENING:\nIDFA INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM\, 2015 \nSELECTION AND AWARDS :\nARTDOCFEST FILM FESTIVAL 2015\, RUSSIA (SPECIAL JURY PRIZE)\, 2015\nHOTDOCS CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL\, 2016\nDOCPOINT HELSINKI DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016\,\nGIFF GUANAJUATO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2016\,\nCIFF 12TH CAMDEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2016\,\nINTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL MESSAGE TO MAN\, RUSSIA (DIPLOMA «FOR A FILM ABOUT DIFFICULTIES OF A PERSONAL CHOICE»)\, 2016\nÂNÛÛ-RÛ ÂBORO FILM FESTIVAL\, NEW CALEDONIA (THE BEST MEDIUM-LENGTH FILM)\, 2016\nINTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL LISTAPAD\, BELARUS (THE BEST DOCUMENTARY MOVIE)\, 2016[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”el Ensamble Ferroeléctrico de Marte” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”30 min. preceding the program” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]A short performance[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Salamanca ” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”41 min.\, 2015 ” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Scenes of family life in stylized black-and-white\, accompanied by the voice of a man looking back on his youth in a deeply religious Mexican community.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”41 min” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51519″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Aleksandra Kulak is from Vitebsk\, Belarus. In 2015 she graduated from Saint-Petersburg University Culture and Arts. Specialty – documentary photography and filmmaking . Since 2014 she’s been a student at the Moscow Film School on the department director of photography. \nFilmography:\n“Christmas” short documentary\, together with Ruslan Fedotow\, 2014\n“Didn’t see didn’t do” feature short\, DOP (dir. Rostislav Smirnyagin)\, 2014\n“Ok Good” documentary musical\, 2015\n“Salamanca” mid-length documentary\, together with Ruslan Fedotow\, 2015[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”52784″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Pamela Cohn is a filmmaker\, writer\, programmer\, and documentary consultant currently based in Berlin[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”52846″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Ensamble Ferroeléctrico de Marte a musical and performance art duo from Argentina links notions of musicology and luthiery with some canons and archetypes derived from the most orthodox and fundamentalist esoterism. The result is a series of ideas impregnated with a primitive philosophy of Nature\, where each musical note reveals at the same time a definite animal origin\, a planetary influence or regency\, a statue that sings\, a simple distorted echo or just the mere shadow Of ancient totemistic musical forms. This combinatory gave rise to the Ferroelectric Assembly of Mars\, a group of anonymous musicians with orchestra aspirations intervened with iron masks and musical instruments that by their form look like animals\, weapons\, both at the same time.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-01-26-salamanca/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170128T050000
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SUMMARY:RADIO BOOT CAMP - JANUARY SESSION
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]SOLD OUT! This course is at capacity and is currently not accepting any more participants at this time. If you are interested in joining the waitlist in the case of any cancellations please select “Join the Waitlist” at checkout. Doing this will also give you priority registration for the next offering of RADIO BOOT CAMP.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \nDon’t just listen to stories\, tell your own!\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]Do you love Ira\, have a secret crush on Terry Gross\, or wanna be Audie Cornish when you grow up? Come to Radio Camp’s January Boot Camp and learn how to produce a radio story from start to finish. This hands on class will cover the basics of writing for the ear (very different than print) and producing for radio using professional equipment and software. Be prepared to grab your gear and hit the streets. Learn interviewing and mic techniques by doing the real thing. Voicing will also be covered. Students will produce one story over the course of the weekend.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”Details” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]Eligibility[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Open to everyone\, though the workshop is designed for beginners\, enthusiasts and newcomers to radio.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]Costs[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]$295 for early registration by January 3 at 5PM\, afterwards\, $315.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]Technology Requirements[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]All the software and recording equipment for the weekend will be provided. We’re incredibly grateful to the generous folks at Hindenburg for sharing their amazing audio editing software with us! Beginning one month before the workshop\, registered students will be able to download a version of Hindenburg which will be theirs to use for a couple of months. That way you can get your audio groove on early! Please note: in order to keep costs down\, this workshop is a b-y-o-l\, bring your own laptop. Students must be FULLY PROFICIENT using and operating their computers. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_tta_accordion style=”outline” shape=”square” color=”white” active_section=”8″ no_fill=”true” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Refund Policy” tab_id=”1481136626200-ee229a0b-2baa”][vc_column_text]After the registration deadline of January 3rd\, course fees are not refundable or transferable and any withdrawals or deadlines will result in the full cost of the class being forfeit. There will be no exceptions. To withdraw from a course please email info-at-uniondocs.org.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Registration & Cancellation Policy” tab_id=”1481136626231-143c7c16-0959″][vc_column_text]$295 for early registration by January 3 at 5PM\, afterwards\, $315. \nTo register for a workshop\, students must pay in full via PayPal. After the registration deadline of January 4th\, course fees are not refundable or transferable and any withdrawals or deadlines will result in the full cost of the class being forfeit. There will be no exceptions. To withdraw from a course please email info@uniondocs.org. \nIn the event that a workshop does not receive sufficient enrollment\, it may be canceled. Students will be notified at least 48 hours prior to the start of a cancelled workshop and will be refunded within 5 business days. If we reschedule a workshop to another date\, students are also entitled to a full refund. UnionDocs reserves the right to change instructors without prior notification\, and to change class location and meeting times by up to an hour with 48 hours prior notice. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”FAQ” tab_id=”1481136626263-ff625998-8445″][vc_column_text]Q: I really like radio\, but I don’t know anything about how to make it. Should I take this class? \nA: Absolutely! This workshop is designed for beginners\, enthusiasts and newcomers to radio. \nQ: I really like radio – in fact I already work for a show/station! But I work at a talk show/in fundraising/listener relations. Should I take this class? \nA: Absolutely! The focus of class is on making pre-produced radio a very different process than producing at a talk show or similar. \nQ: How many students will be in class? \nA: Class is limited to 12 students. \nQ: Do we need any special software or equipment for camp? \nA: Yes – in order to keep costs down you’ll need to bring a laptop\, but that’s it. All the software and recording equipment you need will be provided at  the camp. \nQ: What about lunch? \nA: We’ll take an hour off each day for lunch. \nQ: What’s UnionDocs? \nA: UnionDocs is a nonprofit Center for Documentary Art. It presents over 100 events a year\, runs workshops and produces original projects through its collaborative studio. We think it’s pretty great! \nQ: What is Hindenburg? \nA: In case you’re wondering\, Hindenburg Systems’ audio production solutions are developed by\, with and for radio professionals and podcasters. The unique\, intuitive interface is designed specifically for story-telling\, allowing journalists to focus on their story\, while Hindenburg ensures consistent broadcast sound quality and levels. It’s all about the Story! \nQ: Where will the ideas for the stories we’ll be working on come from? \nA: There will be some flexibility in format\, but the class will work on one assigned story. This allows students to see and learn from each other’s work. Pitching story ideas and professional practices will be discussed at the end of day 2\, and we’re hoping to schedule a stand alone pitching workshop in the near future. \nQ: I want to learn to make a podcast. Will you be covering that? \nA: While we wish we had time to cover everything\, we may touch on podcasting\, but it’s not a set part of the curriculum.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_message message_box_style=”solid” style=”square” message_box_color=”orange”]Please note: Participants are accepted on a first-come\, first-serve basis.[/vc_message][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”Bios” color=”white” el_class=” \n“][vc_column_text] \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51131″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Sally Herships is an award winning journalist who’s been making radio for over a decade. She’s produced or reported for BBC World Service\, NPR\, WNYC\, The New York Times and Studio 360. She’s put in many hours at Radio Lab and is a regular contributor to public radio’s Marketplace. Sally has taught radio at numerous venues ranging from the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls\, to NYU\, Smith and the New School and teaches writing for radio at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Sally has been a Brooklynite for almost 20 years and when she’s not making radio she loves to daydream and paint pictures of robots and cats. You can listen to Sally’s radio work here or here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”46437″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Stephanie Coleman began making radio as an undergraduate studying at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies. She has since worked for StoryCorps\, The Story with Dick Gordon\, and she currently produces radio independently and for Twangbox Productions. Her work has aired on All Things Considered\, Weekend Edition\, The Story\, WBEZ’s Re:Sound\, and the Vox Tablet and Distillations podcasts. She is also an accomplished old-time fiddle player and has performed and taught throughout the United States\, Europe\, and Australia with the all-girl band Uncle Earl and other stringbandy configurations.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51132″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Adrian Ma is a journalist\, audio producer\, and former law clerk. Since making the switch from law to journalism\, he’s reported on how football’s concussion crisis is making helmets more expensive\, why interest in drone racing is taking off\, and how New York’s helicopter tour industry is driving residents nuts. In 2016\, he graduated with honors from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. His work has aired on WNYC\, WBAI\, and Marketplace. Recently\, he worked on Codebreaker\, a podcast from Marketplace Tech and Business Insider. Years ago\, he was a cook in a ramen shop. Marylander by birth; New Yorker by necessity. Listen to samples of his work here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”46440″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Elizabeth Brockway is a recent graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism where she worked on Uptown Radio. Prior to earning her master’s degree\, she spent several years working as a writer and photographer in fashion and beauty at Vogue.com\, Into The Gloss and i-D. You can listen to her radio work here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-01-radio-boot-camp/
LOCATION:322 UNION AVE\, BROOKLYN\, NY\, 11211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Labs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170128T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170128T220000
DTSTAMP:20260621T232544
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SUMMARY:Colonial Crime Scenes
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”AEQUADOR” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Laura Huertas Millán\, Colombia\, 2011\, 19 min” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]A journey upstream the Amazon River where Modernist constructions have been abandoned like the memories of an engulfed civilization of the future. Aequador is a science-fiction documentary evoking the colonization of nature\, former utopias in Latin American forests\, and their cohabitation with the present.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”THIS UNWIELDY OBJECT” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=” Anna Zett\, Germany / USA\, 47 min” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]In the trans-genre film This Unwieldy Object dig sites become crime scenes\, and fossils turn into characters\, determined to play a main part in the violent history of the American Frontier. You follow the protagonist on a road trip into the dusty heart of the USA\, where fossil traders\, sculptors and scientists are trying to reconstruct the plot of natural history\, the plot of progress. The story ends in the middle.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”JOURNEY TO A LAND OTHERWISE KNOWN\n” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Laura Huertas Millán\, Colombia\, 2011\, 23 min” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]In a film\, meeting a strange tribe often starts with the plunging view from a building necessary to the journey. The architecture of Jean-Pierre Secq dubbed the noise of the waves washes over us in this way. However\, to open it\, the construction was massive and still\, unfolding the three concrete wings of this equatorial greenhouse in Lille. This essay on the conquest of America assumes its own contradiction\, underlined by a montage of texts by colonisers: Bernal Diaz del Castillo\, Hans Staden\, Jean de Léry\, Charles de la Condamine and the use of costumes and masks inspired by Brazilian modernism. The discovery of a new world conducted in slow motion listening to the minutes of an unlikely trial of the invaders. The most restrained of movements\, surplus\, to make the most of rediscovering the New World. [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”89 min” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51547″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Anna Zett is an artist and writer\, born in Leipzig\, living in Berlin. Once trained in theory\, she is now using screen\, voice\, story and movement to connect experience and imagination.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”5px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”52731″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Laura Huertas Millán\, also known as Arturo Lucía\, is a Colombian-French filmmaker and artist. \nHer latest film Sol Negro (2016) weaves a hyper realistic auto-ethnographic fiction where individuals of her family play their own role in past and present tense around the issue of mental illness. The film premiered at FIDMarseille 2016 and was awarded a Grand Prix Special Mention in the French competition; it was also awarded a Grand Prix Honorable Mention at Doclisboa 2016 where it internationally premiered. The film will be part of the Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American cinema 2017 at the Lincoln Center in New York. \nHer previous short films draw from the ethnography imageries and propose decolonializing surrealistic tales in between facts and fiction. Her films have screened in cinema festivals (Torino\, Ficunam\, Curtas Vila do Conde\, Tampere\, Winterthur\, Videobrasil\, Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento) and art venues (Guggenheim NY\, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires\, LABORAL Gijón\, Lugar a Dudas\, Villa Arson…)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-01-28-colonial-crime-scenes/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170203T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170203T220000
DTSTAMP:20260621T232544
CREATED:20170109T233144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180228T143907Z
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SUMMARY:The Maribor Uprisings: A Live Participatory Film
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]Twice\, the people went into the streets. Twice\, the police drove them away. What began as protests became uprisings. In the once-prosperous industrial city of Maribor\, Slovenia\, anger over political corruption became unruly revolt. This participatory documentary places audiences in the midst of the third and largest uprising as crowds surround and ransack City Hall under a hailstorm of tear gas canisters. Soon the mayor will resign—and the movement will spread to cities across the country. \nThe Maribor Uprisings takes up urgent questions raised by these events\, and by uprisings elsewhere\, from the Arab Spring\, through Paris\, to Black Lives Matter. What sparks such popular outrage? How are participants swept up in—and then changed by—confrontations with police? Could something like this happen in your city? \nThe directors invite audiences to engage these questions through an unusual and participatory form. Drawing on the dramatic frontline footage of a video activist collective embedded within the uprisings\, this film places viewers amidst the jostling crowds. It requires them to make their own choices about which cameras they will follow and therefore how they will participate. Like those who joined the actual uprisings\, audiences in the theater must decide whether to listen to organizers and remain with those committed to nonviolent protest on Freedom Square or to follow rowdy crowds toward City Hall and almost certain conflict.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”The Maribor Uprisings: A Live Participatory Film” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”90 min.\, 2017\, Dir. Maple Razsa & Milton Guillén” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”52132″ img_size=”200×200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Maple J. Razsa is committed to using text\, images\, and sound to embody the experience and political imagination of radical social movements. Since earning his PhD in anthropology and filmmaking at Harvard University\, Maple has been teaching at Colby College. His previous films\, codirected with Pacho Velez\, include Bastards of Utopia and Occupation: A Film About the Harvard Living Wage Sit-In. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”52867″ img_size=”200×200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Milton Guillen focuses in combining fiction and documentaries to explore the cinematic intersections of ethnographic research and sensorial experiences. Milton earned his BA from Colby College in Anthropology and is committed to engage in multiple platforms that strive for social justice[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-02-03-the-maribor-uprisings/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170205T220000
DTSTAMP:20260621T232544
CREATED:20170109T224654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180228T143907Z
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SUMMARY:The Monument Hunter
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]Join us for a reception to honor the 2016 recipient of the Roberto Guerra Documentary Award\, Jerónimo Rodríguez. The annual prize is given to a documentary filmmaker from Latin America or US-Latino based in New York to honor Roberto Guerra’s life and legacy in the field of Documentary. \nThis evening we will toast to Jerónimo Rodríguez\, and screen one of his celebrated films\, The Monument Hunter.  \n“Jerónimo Rodríguez’s debut feature The Monument Hunter explores intimacies of another kind altogether. Through subtle oscillations between Brooklyn  and Santiago\, the film’s narrator and first-person camera elegantly unravel the personal and the political\, memory and history: of Chilean soccer\, of the Unidad Popular\, of the many near anonymous statues and memorials that populate urban landscapes. Along the way\, observational images of contemporary landscapes— inscribed with the past yet constantly changing\, gentrifying\, or being erased—merge with borrowed ones from films by Joaquim Jordà\, Hong Sangsoo\, Raúl Ruiz\, and Harry Smith\, and a few internet videos. This experience of searching (in both physical and virtual spaces) gives the film an air of laconic mystery\, evincing a certain cool melancholy for the smoothing out of geography\, temporality\, and experience.” —Leo Goldsmith\, CINEMA SCOPE MAGAZINE \n“A dizzying exploration of the relationship between history and memory\, Jerónimo Rodríguez’s The Monument Hunter unfolds like a contemporary Chilean twist on the films of Chris Marker. Its subject is an unseen man named Jorge\, a Santiago-born filmmaker who has since relocated to a studio apartment in Greenpoint. One afternoon\, sleepless and desperate to decompress from his latest project\, Jorge sees a documentary that revives a forgotten childhood memory of a statue his late father once showed him. Dislocated from his past and desperate to reconnect with the spirit of his old man\, Jorge embarks on a quest to find a monument that may no longer exist (if it ever existed in the first place). Riding a constant drone of droll narration\, Rodríguez’s temporally untethered cine-essay chronicles Jorge’s journey from Brooklyn to Chile; from clarity to the most cobwebbed corners of his mind (where memories of famous soccer matches compete for attention with the films of Raul Ruiz and Hong Sang-soo). We have no way of knowing if Jorge is real\, or if he’s a tool that Rodríguez invented to leverage his way into the space between fact and fiction\, but The Monument Hunter milks that ambiguity to illustrate how images and memories aren’t in competition with each other. On the contrary\, Jorge’s story shows how images create memories\, and Rodríguez’s film shows how memories create images.” — David Ehrlick\, INDIEWIRE[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”The Monument Hunter” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”71 min.\, 2015\, Chile-USA” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]There are many images in The Monument Hunter –thousands and thousands from everywhere in the world– but only one can sum it up perfectly: it’s the image of a sculpture\, placed in front of the Neurosurgery Institute in Santiago de Chile\, that features a human brain floating on the air and proudly guarded by two delicate hands. In a similar way\, Jeronimo Rodriguez’s debut film sets itself to create a representation of the human computer\, yet focusing on the software rather than the hardware. Hence\, and through a narrative structure that resembles the working of old magical brains\, his essay documentary exposes the whole intellectual process that comes into play since the moment the protagonist remembers a statue he once visited with his father\, and then decides to search for it decades later. Like any good detective story\, The Monument Hunter makes use of the story of a search to compose a parallel and ineffable story about personal memory and the passage of time.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”71 min” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”52121″ img_size=”200×200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Jeronimo Rodriguez is a Chilean American filmmaker. He directed the essay film ‘The Monument Hunter’ (FID Marseille International Competition 2015\, Special Jury Prize at FICCI 2016). He also co-wrote Alejandro Fernandez Almendras’ feature ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (Sundance Film Festival World Dramatic Competition and Berlin Film Festival 2016). He co-produced Matias Piñeiro’s ‘The Princess of France’ (Locarno Film Festival International Competition 2014). Last year\, he co-curated ‘Tropical Uncanny: Latin American Tropes and Mythologies’\, a film series presented by the Guggenheim Museum and Cinema Tropical. He also programmed Flaherty NYC Spring 2013\, a non-fiction film series organized by The Robert Flaherty Seminar. Filmmaker Magazine recently named Rodriguez among the 25 New Faces of Independent Film.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”About the Roberto Guerra Documentary Fund” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_column_text]Kathy Brew\, Roberto Guerra’s long-time collaborator and wife established the Roberto Guerra Documentary Fund in 2015 to honor Roberto Guerra’s life and legacy in the field. Originally from Peru\, Guerra came to New York as a young\, aspiring filmmaker to meet the cinema verité pioneers. He was inspired to create a number of films while living in New York and Europe. He continued to shoot and produce through the last year of his life. \nKathy and UnionDocs as a fiscal sponsor have come together to honor the memory of Roberto by supporting and encouraging an emerging filmmaker in the creation of his or her documentary work. In the spirit of Roberto Guerra’s intuitive and sensitive eye\, the Award aims to recognize a Latin American or US-Latino artist who is developing his or her own vision through innovative documentary art and at the same time responds to the issues of our times. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-02-05-the-monument-hunter-roberto-guerra-winner/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170209T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170209T223000
DTSTAMP:20260621T232544
CREATED:20170123T230219Z
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SUMMARY:Justifiable Paranoia: National Bird & Aaron Brown
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We welcome Curtis Wallen and Sonia Kennebeck for an evening of JUSTIFIABLE PARANOIA for this month’s iteration of the BK@24fps series with Skylight Pictures. Wallen will describe his Aaron Brown project\, reflecting on identity protection on the internet\, before we screen Kennebeck’s latest feature. Deemed “elegantly unsettling” by The New York Times\, National Bird follows the dramatic journey of three whistleblowers who are determined to break the silence around one of the most controversial current affairs issues of our time: The secret U.S. drone war. From Executive Producers Wim Wenders\, and Errol Morris\, the images in this film haunt the audience and bring a faraway issue close to home. Discussion with Wallen and Kennebeck will follow\, moderated by Melvin Estrella. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”Aaron Brown: on creating an identity on the deep web ” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”15 min.\, mixed media\n” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \nCurtis Wallen will give a short presentation on creating an identity on the deep web. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”National Bird” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”92 min.\, 2016″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \nNational Bird follows the dramatic journey of three whistleblowers who are determined to break the silence around one of the most controversial current affairs issues of our time: The secret U.S. drone war. \nAt the center of the film are three U.S. military veterans. Tortured by guilt over participating in the killing of faceless people in foreign countries\, they decide to speak out publicly\, despite the possible consequences. \nTheir stories take dramatic turns\, leading one of the protagonists to Afghanistan where she learns about a horrendous incident. But her journey also gives hope for peace and redemption. \nNational Bird gives rare insight into the U.S. drone program through the eyes of veterans and survivors\, connecting their stories as never seen before in a documentary. Its images haunt the audience and bring a faraway issue close to home. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”92 min” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”52385″ img_size=”200×200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Sonia Kennebeck is an independent documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist with more than 15 years of directing and producing experience. She has directed eight television documentaries and more than 50 investigative reports. Most recently\, she completed her first feature-length documentary\, National Bird\, a film about the U.S. drone war which was executive produced by Wim Wenders and Errol Morris and premiered in the prestigious Specials Section of the Berlin Film Festival 2016 and was also selected for Tribeca\, Sheffield and IDFA\, among many other festivals. National Bird will open in theaters in the U.S. and Europe in November and will be broadcast on PBS in spring 2017. Filmmaker Magazine selected Sonia Kennebeck as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2016. Sonia Kennebeck received a Master’s degree in International Affairs from American University in Washington\, D.C. She was born in Malacca\, Malaysia and lives in New York.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”53068″ img_size=”200×200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Curtis Wallen is an artist\, writer\, and researcher from Missouri\, currently based in Brooklyn. His work focuses on the structures of technology\, security\, and power. He has appeared in The Atlantic\, Wired\, Fast Company\, Süddeutsche Zeitung\, VICE Motherboard\, and the BBC. His work has been exhibited and presented internationally in New York\, Los Angeles\, Germany\, and Switzerland. He is also the co-founder of the art gallery Motel.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”BK@24fps”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”53057″ img_size=”300×500″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Our monthly Brooklyn-based screening series highlights documentary films as a way to to expand dialogue around the intersection of human rights and art. Born out of a three-way collaboration between Skylight\, UnionDocs\, and WITNESS\, these monthly events aim to strengthen the ties between people interested in human rights in Brooklyn and will consist of\, a 10-part series of film screenings followed by a partner-moderated discussion between the filmmaker\, movement actors\, and the audience. During our discussions we debate the conventional framework for human rights and challenge the definition of what constitutes human rights media.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-02-09-national-bird/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:BK@24fps,Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170210T050000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170212T120000
DTSTAMP:20260621T232544
CREATED:20170112T200655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180228T143907Z
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SUMMARY:Safeguarding Sources: Encryption and Trauma Protection
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]From Standing Rock to Ferguson\, documentary filmmakers\, journalists and other media crew find themselves forced to work in increasingly dangerous or sensitive conditions. Many documentarians may not know their legal rights or may not have the skills or tools to protect themselves or their crew and subjects. This workshop seeks to expand source protection to cover more than just encrypting data. Over the course of three days\, participants will explore what it takes to protect those who endanger themselves to investigate injustice.  \nThis three-day intensive will explore the ethics and challenges of investigating and documenting high-stakes\, dangerous and traumatic situations and events. It is designed to familiarize documentary makers with their legal rights and ethical obligations and to introduce strategies for protecting their subjects and crews. The workshop will cover how to protect sources and data and how to keep crew and subjects safe during and after filming. Topics to be discussed will include physical\, legal and emotional/psychological protection. It will also cover best practices for shooting and sharing sensitive or dangerous information. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to engage protection and security through a unique range of guests\, including filmmakers\, law and trauma professionals\, and internet and data security experts. \nParticipants will have the opportunity to receive legal\, safety\, data encryption and self-care advice for their current and future projects. The workshop will culminate in a public CryptoParty to share practical strategies and tools for data encryption and security.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”Details” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_tta_accordion style=”outline” shape=”square” color=”white” active_section=”8″ no_fill=”true” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Who is eligible?” tab_id=”1477608256488-ac7d3d1a-ae90d57a-11de”][vc_column_text]Open to everyone. We are looking for filmmakers\, film producers\, journalists\, television and radio makers\, hackers\, and other media artists interested in data security and source and crew protection in volatile conditions.  \nGive us an idea of who you are and why you are coming. When you register you will be asked for a short statement of interest that should briefly describe your experience and a film project (it would be great if you have a project in progress that you would present to the group during the work-in-progress critique sessions)\, plus a bio. There’s a spot for a link to a work sample (and CV\, which would also be nice\, but is not required).[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Cost” tab_id=”1477608256642-4c32d845-e843d57a-11de”][vc_column_text]$285 early bird registration by February 6th at 5PM. \n$385 regular registration. \nIncludes Thursday and Sunday night public events.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Refund Policy” tab_id=”1485951710646-51c30483-21b9″][vc_column_text]The deposit is non-refundable. Should you need to cancel\, you’ll receive half of your registration fee back until February 6th. After February 6th\, the fee is non-refundable.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Technology Requirements” tab_id=”1477608488046-a8fa4720-5016d57a-11de”][vc_column_text]In order to keep costs down\, this workshop is a BYOL\, i.e. bring your own laptop. Students must be fully proficient using and operating their computers.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Registration & Cancellation Policy” tab_id=”1477612055387-51381642-d1c7d57a-11de”][vc_column_text]To register for a workshop\, students must pay in full via PayPal. Course fees are not refundable or transferable\, and any withdrawals will result in the full cost of the class being forfeit. There will be no exceptions. To withdraw from a course please email info-at-uniondocs.org. \nIn the event that a workshop does not receive sufficient enrollment\, it may be canceled. Students will be notified at least 48 hours prior to the start of a cancelled workshop and will be refunded within 5 business days. If we reschedule a workshop to another date\, students are also entitled to a full refund. UnionDocs reserves the right to change instructors without prior notification\, and to change class location and meeting times by up to an hour with 48 hours prior notice.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_message message_box_style=”solid” style=”square” message_box_color=”orange”]Please note: Participants are accepted on a first-come\, first-serve basis.[/vc_message][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Schedule” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Thursday\, February 9: 7:30pm” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Justifiable Paranoia: National Bird & Aaron Brown \nA public screening of Sonia Kennebeck’s 2016 documentary National Bird with special guests Sonia Kennebeck and Curtis Wallen. This event is included in the workshop registration fee\, but participants must RSVP in advance.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Friday\, February 10: 10am-5pm” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator color=”white”][vc_column_text]AM: Sonia Kennebeck\, producer and director of National Bird (2016)\, will provide an overview of working on a sensitive or potentially dangerous topic. Her session will introduce the fundamental protection issues relevant to working at the intersection of documentary film and investigative journalism. She will discuss such crucial issues as how to secure the right production insurances\, how to film in hostile environments and how to maintain crew and source safety before\, during and after filming.  \nPM: Jack Saul\, trauma expert and director of the International Trauma Studies Program\, will provide an overview of collective trauma and will talk about how documentary makers can deal with past and current traumatic conditions. Whether helping a source talk about a past traumatic event or recovering from a dangerous film shoot\, emotional protection is an increasingly important aspect of investigative work. [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Saturday\, February 11: 10am-5pm” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]AM: Jonathan Stribling-Uss\, Esq.\, lawyer\, digital security expert and director of Constitutional Communications\, will discuss documentary makers’ legal and civil rights when working on sensitive investigative projects. He will share strategies and tools for privacy protection and tactics for the legal safeguarding of data and sources. \nPM: Lyric R. Cabral\, director\, producer and cinematographer\, will provide an in-depth discussion of her 2015 documentary (T)ERROR. She will discuss how to perform a risk-assessment of your film\, best practices for researching sensitive material online\, how to safeguard your data\, the ethics of preparing a “whistleblower” and strategies for filming sensitive material in the field.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”white”][vc_custom_heading text=”Sunday\, Feburary 12: 10am-5pm” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]AM: Quinn Norton\, journalist\, internet activist and subject of The Internet’s Own Boy (2014)\, will talk about her traumatic experience as a subject of investigation\, offering makers insight into how to protect their subjects’ emotional lives. She will follow this with a session introducing digital literacy. Documentary makers who understand the fundamentals of digital media can make informed\, ethical decisions about how to protect data and sources.  \nPM: Harlo Holmes\, encryption expert and director of Newsroom Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation\, will discuss how documentary makers can prepare for security through identity and data management and using best practices when recording and sharing information. She will introduce crucial tactics and tools documentary makers can use for source\, data and self protection.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”white”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”**Special Sunday night public event begins at 7:30pm**” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]UNDO CRYPTOPARTY! Learn tools for online privacy and digital data protection at UnionDocs first-ever CryptoParty. Special guest facilitators include Harlo Holmes\, Quinn Norton\, Matt Mitchell\, Chris Klapis\, Allison Burtch and a guest from NYC Resistor. This is a free public event. RSVP’s required. Spaces are limited!\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Bios” color=”white” el_class=” \n“][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”52385″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Sonia Kennebeck\, Director & Producer – Ten Forward Films\nSonia Kennebeck is an independent documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist with more than 15 years of directing and producing experience. She has directed eight television documentaries and more than 50 investigative reports. Most recently\, she completed her first feature-length documentary\, National Bird\, a film about the U.S. drone war which was executive produced by Wim Wenders and Errol Morris and premiered in the prestigious Specials Section of the Berlin Film Festival 2016 and was also selected for Tribeca\, Sheffield and IDFA\, among many other festivals. Filmmaker Magazine selected Sonia Kennebeck as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2016. Sonia Kennebeck received a Master’s degree in International Affairs from American University in Washington\, D.C. She was born in Malacca\, Malaysia and lives in New York.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”52383″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Jack Saul\, Psychologist & Director of International Trauma Studies Program \nJack Saul\, Ph.D. is the founding director of the International Trauma Studies Program (ITSP) and Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. As a psychologist and family therapist he has created numerous programs for populations that have endured war\, torture and political violence\, including the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture\, the FEMA funded Post 9/11 Downtown Community Resource Center in Lower Manhattan\, REFUGE: Refugee Resource Center\, and Theater Arts Against Political Violence.  He has written about this work in his book\, Collective Trauma\, Collective Healing: Promoting Community Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster (Routledge\, 2013). Dr. Saul  has a private practice in Manhattan and consults to humanitarian\, human rights\, and media organizations on staff stress management and trauma informed care.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”52868″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Jonathan Stribling-Uss\, Lawyer & Director of Constitutional Communications \nJonathan Stribling-Uss\, Esq. is the director of Constitutional Communications\, a nonprofit organization that specializes in information security for professionals and civil society organizations. He has led trainings and accredited CLEs (Continuing Legal Education) for hundreds of attorneys and law students on cybersecurity\, professional ethics\, international law\, and attorney-client communications with the NYCLA (New York County) Bar Association\, Law For Black Lives\, and the Continuing Legal Resource Network at CUNY (City University Of New York). He has also trained journalists\, foundations\, activists\, and technologists from more then 40 countries at the Center for Constitutional Rights\, Thoughtworks global corporation\, the International Development Exchange\, the Legal Clinics of the CUNY School of Law\, and The Florestan Fernandes National School in Brazil. His work was recently featured in NY Magazine and Brazil de Fato news magazine.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”53084″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Lyric R. Cabral\, Director\, Producer & Cinematographer \nDirector/Producer Lyric R. Cabral has over a decade of experience documenting the under-reported intersections of race and surveillance in the post 9-11 world.  Lyric’s investigative work is defined by an insider\, character driven perspective and seeks to expose vital information for the public record.  Cabral’s debut film (T)ERROR\, the first film to portray an active FBI counterterrorism sting operation\, won the 2015 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Breakout First Feature\, the 2015 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Grand Jury Prize\, and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary.  Lyric was among Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film\, and her documentary work has been recently broadcast on PBS\, BBC\, VICELAND\, PIVOT\, and National Geographic Channel UK.  Cabral is currently directing THE RASHOMON EFFECT\, an immersive examination of the shooting of Michael O.D. Brown by police officer Darren Wilson.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”52384″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Quinn Norton\, Journalist\, Digital Literacy Expert & Internet Activist \nQuinn Norton is a writer who likes to hang out in the dead end alleys and rough neighborhood of the Internet\, where bad things can happen to defenseless little packets. They are also places were new freedoms and poetries are born\, and run riot over the network. She started studying hackers in 1995\, after a wasted youth of Usenet and BBSing. These days\, Quinn is a journalist\, published in Wired\, The Atlantic\, Maximum PC\, and more. She covers science\, technology\, copyright law\, robotics\, body modification\, and medicine\, but no matter how many times she tries to leave\, she always comes back to hackers. Quinn was a subject in the 2014 documentary The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”52382″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Harlo Holmes\, Encryption Expert & Director of Newsroom Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation \nHarlo Holmes is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms\, with their sources\, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar\, software programmer\, and activist; and contributes regularly to the open source mobile security collective The Guardian Project.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-02-10-12-documentary-source-and-trauma-protection-workshop/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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