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Sunday, May 5 - 7:30pm Directing and Shooting Your Documentary With Josh Koury, Ed David and Penny Lane. Documentary filmmakers produce and shoot in a wide variety of locations under many different practical, financial, technical and legal constraints. This session features case studies and practical guidance from a director/producer and cinematographer Ed David.

Directing and Shooting Your Documentary

With Josh Koury, Ed David and Penny Lane. Documentary filmmakers produce and shoot in a wide variety of locations under many different practical, financial, technical and legal constraints. This session features case studies and practical guidance from a director/producer and cinematographer Ed David.
Sunday, Apr 28 - 7:30pm Financing Your Documentary With Jenny Raskin, Stephanie Bleyer and Judith Helfand This session will address the eternal question: how to finance your doc? What are the pros and cons of different fundraising models (grants, equity investment, pre-sales, crowdsourcing)? Budgeting, how to find and successfully apply for grants, tips and tools for crowdfunding and other approaches to getting funded will be discussed in this can’t-miss session.

Financing Your Documentary

With Jenny Raskin, Stephanie Bleyer and Judith Helfand This session will address the eternal question: how to finance your doc? What are the pros and cons of different fundraising models (grants, equity investment, pre-sales, crowdsourcing)? Budgeting, how to find and successfully apply for grants, tips and tools for crowdfunding and other approaches to getting funded will be discussed in this can’t-miss session.
Sunday, Apr 21 - 7:30pm Planning Your Documentary With producer Yael Melamede, Anne Kennedy McGuire and Penny Lane This session covers issues of legal rights and clearances, business basics for filmmakers, budgeting, structuring agreements for talent and crew, and more.

Planning Your Documentary

With producer Yael Melamede, Anne Kennedy McGuire and Penny Lane This session covers issues of legal rights and clearances, business basics for filmmakers, budgeting, structuring agreements for talent and crew, and more.
Sunday, Apr 14 - 7:30pm The Subway Series: Tunnel Stories and Spraymasters With Geoff Duncanson and Manfred Kirchheimer, and Reid Bingham This is the third screening in Cinebeasts’ two month long Subway Series film festival. This screening will focus on the artists, taggers, and vandals, who make their mark underground in tunnels and on trains. It features the short film Tunnel Stories, followed by the featured documentary SprayMasters, and a few short subway-related surprises.

The Subway Series: Tunnel Stories and Spraymasters

With Geoff Duncanson and Manfred Kirchheimer, and Reid Bingham This is the third screening in Cinebeasts’ two month long Subway Series film festival. This screening will focus on the artists, taggers, and vandals, who make their mark underground in tunnels and on trains. It features the short film Tunnel Stories, followed by the featured documentary SprayMasters, and a few short subway-related surprises.
Saturday, Apr 13 - 7:30pm Megapolis Warm-Up Audio Transmission with Anna Friz and Eric Leonardson With Anna Friz and Eric Leonardson. A radiophonic installation creates an intimate atmosphere of transmission, where audience and performers share the acoustic space inside a multi-channel array of suspended radio receivers and micro-watt transmitters.

Megapolis Warm-Up Audio Transmission with Anna Friz and Eric Leonardson

With Anna Friz and Eric Leonardson. A radiophonic installation creates an intimate atmosphere of transmission, where audience and performers share the acoustic space inside a multi-channel array of suspended radio receivers and micro-watt transmitters.
Monday, Apr 8 - 7:30pm We are Winning, Don’t Forget: Jean-Gabriel Périot at the MoMA & North American Tour With Jean-Gabriel Périot Jean-Gabriel Périot, born in France in 1974, has over the past fifteen years perfected an innovative filmmaking approach by focusing on archival editing. Despite the labor intensive process of compiling a film via multiple edited images, Périot has made numerous short films using digital video and/or film that reside within combined documentary/essay, animation, and experimental genres.

We are Winning, Don’t Forget: Jean-Gabriel Périot at the MoMA & North American Tour

With Jean-Gabriel Périot Jean-Gabriel Périot, born in France in 1974, has over the past fifteen years perfected an innovative filmmaking approach by focusing on archival editing. Despite the labor intensive process of compiling a film via multiple edited images, Périot has made numerous short films using digital video and/or film that reside within combined documentary/essay, animation, and experimental genres.
Sunday, Apr 7 - 7:30pm Empty Quarter with Alain LeTourneau and Pam Minty With Alain LeTourneau and Pam Minty. Empty Quarter is a film about the region of Southeast Oregon, an area populated by ranching and farming communities, in Lake, Harney, and Malheur counties

Empty Quarter with Alain LeTourneau and Pam Minty

With Alain LeTourneau and Pam Minty. Empty Quarter is a film about the region of Southeast Oregon, an area populated by ranching and farming communities, in Lake, Harney, and Malheur counties
Sunday, Mar 24 - 7:30pm Interactive Storytelling 101 With Annie Berman and Laurie Sumiye This workshop surveys trends in interactive documentary, introduces new technologies being used, and provides a “how-to” for starting and conceptualizing interactive projects.

Interactive Storytelling 101

With Annie Berman and Laurie Sumiye This workshop surveys trends in interactive documentary, introduces new technologies being used, and provides a “how-to” for starting and conceptualizing interactive projects.

Deafening Silence with Holly Fisher

With Holly Fisher and John Gianvito. Deafening Silence is a fusion of beauty and terror, observation and danger, roving visuals and intimate stories either funny, contemplative, or horrific – a subjective, layered depiction of Burma under brutal military dictatorship.

Day is Done with Christoph Terhechte

With Christoph Terhechte Day Is Done is a poetic but also wryly humorous study of the selfish artist trying to play the indifferent God, but ending up revealing himself as all too human. Day Is Done contains images of ravishing though unconventional urban beauty.
Sunday, Mar 17 - 7:30pm An Evening with Narratively With Emon Hassan, Noah Rosenberg, Tara Israel, Vinnie Rotondaro, Drew and Chelsea Mose, Mo Scarpelli, Maura Ewing, and Pearl Gabel. A showcase and discussion of some of the most compelling work from Narratively – an exciting new multimedia outlet devoted to original and in-depth local stories with a universal appeal.

An Evening with Narratively

With Emon Hassan, Noah Rosenberg, Tara Israel, Vinnie Rotondaro, Drew and Chelsea Mose, Mo Scarpelli, Maura Ewing, and Pearl Gabel. A showcase and discussion of some of the most compelling work from Narratively – an exciting new multimedia outlet devoted to original and in-depth local stories with a universal appeal.

Teenager Hamlet and Auto Mechanic Ulysses

With Margaux Williamson and Tom McCormack. This double feature explores the distance between–and proximity of—the Western Canon and our own gonzo contemporary world, as well as just art and life.

Metropolitan Avenue with Christine Noschese

With Christine Noschese, Ida Susser and Jan Peterson Metropolitan Avenue touches on every problem that every urban neighborhood has either gone through or will face. It expresses a point of view, focusing on the women of the diverse ethnic communities. She documents, through interviews, their strength, individually and collectively, and their persistence.
Saturday, Mar 2 - 7:30pm The Last Clinic with Maisie Crow With Maisie Crow and Alissa Quart. In Mississippi, a new law threatens to shut down the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the last abortion provider in the state. The Last Clinic captures the humanity behind an incendiary issue.

The Last Clinic with Maisie Crow

With Maisie Crow and Alissa Quart. In Mississippi, a new law threatens to shut down the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the last abortion provider in the state. The Last Clinic captures the humanity behind an incendiary issue.
Saturday, Feb 23 - 7:30pm The Installation of the Real: A Panel Discussion on Documentary in the Gallery With Niels Van Tomme, Elisabeth Subrin, Neil Goldberg, and Rebecca Cleman. This panel brings together a set of artists, filmmakers, curators, and critics to discuss the opportunities and challenges of bringing documentary work from the cinema into the gallery, and of floating between black box and white box exhibition spaces.

The Installation of the Real: A Panel Discussion on Documentary in the Gallery

With Niels Van Tomme, Elisabeth Subrin, Neil Goldberg, and Rebecca Cleman. This panel brings together a set of artists, filmmakers, curators, and critics to discuss the opportunities and challenges of bringing documentary work from the cinema into the gallery, and of floating between black box and white box exhibition spaces.
Sunday, Feb 10 - 7:30pm The Improbable Made Possible: Revisited With Jennifer Reeves, Ryan Marino and Lorenzo Gattorna. The second installment of ‘The Improbable Made Possible’ continues a tradition that radically confuses the trajectories of direct observation and speculative fiction.

The Improbable Made Possible: Revisited

With Jennifer Reeves, Ryan Marino and Lorenzo Gattorna. The second installment of ‘The Improbable Made Possible’ continues a tradition that radically confuses the trajectories of direct observation and speculative fiction.

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