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SUMMARY:Public Hearing
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A civic transcript buried on the internet is regenerated as a feature film\, word-for-word and entirely in close-up. Public Hearing is the verbatim re-performance of a rural American town meeting from a transcript downloaded as publicly available information. Shot entirely in cinematic close-up on black-and-white 16mm film\, a cast of actors and non-actors read between the lines in an ironic debate over the replacement of an existing Wal-Mart with a super Wal-Mart. \nPublic Hearing by James N. Kienitz Wilkins  \n110 minutes | USA | 2012 | 16mm-to-HD Projection[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column][vc_separator color=”white”][vc_column_text]James N. Kienitz Wilkins is an artist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn\, NY. Working mostly in film and video\, his projects have screened internationally. He’s received grants and support from Jerome Foundation\, NYSCA\, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, Experimental Television Center\, and elsewhere. Residencies include the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts’ Art & Law Program\, Jihlava Inspiration Forum\, Berlin Talents\, and the MacDowell Colony. He produces and distributes his work through The Automatic Moving Co.\, an artist group and production company based in New York. He is a graduate of the Cooper Union School of Art.\n \n  \n \nTheodore Bouloukos is a New York-based actor and writer whose international performance work encompasses independent cinema\, commercial projects in broadcast\, voice and print\, and character narratives in video\, stage\, painting\, photography and tableaux vivants. In addition to his principal role in Public Hearing\, he recently appeared in Nathan Silver’s Soft in the Head and Kalup Linzy’s Melody Set Me Free. \n  \n  \nEugene Wasserman (Public Hearing\, composer) is a musician and sound engineer based in Brooklyn. He plays with the band\, Dinner\, whose album\, Ray\, will be released later this year.\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Joshua Oppenheimer Early Works & The Act of Killing (DIR. CUT)
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nPerhaps one of the most radical nominees for an Academy Award for Best Documentary ever—presented here in its revealing 159-minute director’s cut—The Act of Killing takes an innovative and willfully unnerving approach to the murderous legacy of Indonesia. Government-sanctioned purges meet Hollywood phantasmagoria in the film’s plunge into the genocidal imagination\, as the comfortably middle-aged perpetrators of the original crimes—self-proclaimed “gangsters”—participate in bizarre reenactments. Building on Jean Rouch and General Idi Amin Dada\, Marcel Ophuls and Claude Lanzmann\, and more. This double program also features important Early Works from Oppenheimer which proceeded this stirring doc. \n\n4:15p – EARLY WORKS (run time: 128 min.)\nThe Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase\, Joshua Oppenheimer\, 50 minutes\, USA\, digital projection \nAn imaginative and innovative film essay which combines faux and real documentary with lyrical fiction to paint a monstrous yet beautiful portrait of America at the end of the millennium.  The film is a playful intellectual travelogue through the abandoned remnants of the Wild West\, an ex-frontier turned into a heartland deprived of its promises\, gazing at the stars for signposts to a brighter future.  The film reminds us that the West may share something more than barbed wire with genocide\, and that history can be told through the moving image in startling new ways.  Oppenheimer suggests that we may look to cinema to understand the dark secrets at the heart of the American dream. As in Buñuel’s dogless Andalusian Dog\, there is no textbook history and no Louisiana in The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase.  Examining hallucinatory stories told by religious and political eccentrics\, he shows how they\, broken existentially and orphaned by a corporation-state and its laissez-faire praxis\, use their closed minds as a last shelter\, as their Andalusian doghouses. \nOppenheimer’s monstrous yet charming ‘history of my country’ is written by a poet\, sweet and dark\, joyous as the wet rats who save themselves from drowning in the film’s last sequence.  And the film never loses sight of the rats’ wealthy cousin\, that most famous mouse from the West Coast. The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase is a pioneering and innovative work.  It closeds a genre of film as revelatory and intelligent dream\, stimulant of social memory\, and means for re-examining the relationship between fact and fiction\, historical truth and social myth. –Dusan Makavejev \nEarly shorts by Joshua Oppenheimer \nMarket Update 2001\, 1 minute\, digital projection \nA Postcard from Sun City\, Arizona 2003\, 4 minutes\, digital projection \nA Brief History of Paradise as Told by the Cockroaches 2003\, 3 minutes\, digital projection \nThe Globalisation Tapes\, Joshua Oppenheimer\, Indonesia\, 2003\, 70 minutes\, digital projection \nSharman Sinaga’s granddaughter looks bored as her grandfather demonstrates for the camera his favored technique of market liberalisation: holding union activists upside down in flooded fields. He mimics their gargles as they choke in the mud. He could hold down two or three at a time he boasts; he seems faintly nostalgic in the dim light and the smoke; his only regret\, that his arms and knees aren’t what they used to be. The orders to hold people upside-down came from the top\, he tells us\, from Surhato; they came also with support from high on Capitol Hill. \nThe Globalisation Tapes were made in collaboration with those a little further down the pile\, closer to the mud (and the rubber and the oil)\, closer to the memories of the massacre that cleared the way for Indonesia’s ‘modernisation’. Using their own forbidden history as a case study\, the Indonesian filmmakers trace the development of contemporary globalisation from its roots in colonialism to the present. Through chilling first-hand accounts\, hilarious improvised interventions\, collective debate and archival collage\, The Globalisation Tapes exposes the devastating role of militarism and repression in building the ‘global economy’\, and explores the relationships between trade\, third-world debt\, and international institutions like the IMF and the World Trade Organization. The film is a densely lyrical and incisive account of how these institutions shape and enforce the corporate world order (and its ‘systems of chaos’). This movie is a collaboration between the Independent Plantation Workers’ Union of Sumatra (Indonesia)\, the International Union of Food and Agricultural Workers (IUF)\, and Vision Machine Film Project. – The Institute of Contemporary Arts \n\n7:15p – The Act of Killing (Director’s Cut\, run time: 159 min.)\nDirected by Joshua Oppenheimer; co-directed by Christine Cynn and Anonymous; Denmark\, UK\, Norway and Indonesia; language Indonesian (with English subtitles); HD Projection \nIn this chilling and inventive documentary\, executive produced by Errol Morris (The Fog Of War) and Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man)\, the filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes\, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love. The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream\, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass-murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit. Shaking audiences at the 2012 Toronto and Telluride Film Festivals and winning an Audience Award at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival\,The Act of Killing is an unprecedented film that\, according to The Los Angeles Times\, “could well change how you view the documentary form.” The director’s cut is the main festival and theatrical version in Europe\, Asia\, and Australia\, and runs 40 minutes longer than the US theatrical release version. Oppenheimer calls it “the definitive version of The Act of Killing – the film in its most terrifying\, dreamlike\, and intimate form”. \nPrint courtesy of Drafthouse Films. \n\nBorn 1974\, Texas\, USA. Joshua Oppenheimer has worked for over a decade with militias\, death squads and their victims to explore the relationship between political violence and the public imagination. Educated at Harvard and Central St Martins\, London\, his award-winning films include THE LOOK OF SILENCE (forthcoming 2014)\, THE ACT OF KILLING (2012)\, THE GLOBALIZATION TAPES (2003)\, THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE (1998\, Gold Hugo\, Chicago Film Festival\, Telluride Film Festival)\, THESE PLACES WE’VE LEARNED TO CALL HOME (1996\, Gold Spire\, San Francisco Film Festival) and numerous shorts. Based in Cclosedhagen\, Denmark\, Oppenheimer is Artistic Director of the Centre for Documentary and Experimental Film at the University of Westminster in London. \nNicolas Rapold is senior editor at Film Comment magazine and a regular contributor to The New York Times. His writing has also appeared in Sight & Sound\, The L Magazine\, the Village Voice\, and Artforum. He co-programs the Overdue screening series and has also curated work at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of the Moving Image. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/03-09-2014-joshua-oppenheimer/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:My Name is Janez Janša
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator color=”white”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“My Name Is Janez Janša is a fine mixture of documentary\, biography\, essay\, study and travelogue with a lively sense of irony and self-irony (…) It’s a documentary about a silent\, slow\, peaceful\, permanent revolution – is cheerful\, lively and optimistic; hence\, it ends with a happy end.” – Marcel Stefancic jr.\, Mladina \n“A proper name is a word that answers the purpose of showing what thing it is that we are talking about but not of telling anything about it”.  – John Stuart Mill in A System of Logic (1. ii. 5.)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]A name. Everybody has one. Individuals\, artists and academics from all over the world share their thoughts about the meaning and purpose of one’s name from both private and public perspectives. The problem of homonymy and other reasons for changing one’s name are explored as the film draws references from history\, popular culture and individual experiences\, leading us to the case of a name change that caused a stir in the small country of Slovenia and beyond. \nIn 2007 three artists joined the conservative Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) and officially changed their names to that of the leader of that party\, the Prime Minister of Slovenia\, Janez Janša. While they renamed themselves for personal reasons\, the boundaries between their lives and their art began to merge in numerous and unforeseen ways. \nSignified as an artistic gesture\, this particular name change provoked a wide range of interpretations in art circles both in Slovenia and abroad\, as well as among journalists and the general public. \nPreviously screened at  BWPWAP\, Berlin\, Germany\, 2013; Festival Internacional de Cine de Punta del Este\, Montevideo\, Uruguay\, 2013; 14th Media Forum\, Moscow\, Russia\, 2013; Philadelphia Independent Film Festival\, Philadelphia\, USA\, 2013; The Influencers\, CCCB\, Barcelona\, Spain\, 2013; Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival\, Florence\, Italy\, 2013.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”68 min” color=”white”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”69653″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Janez Janša is a conceptual artist\, performer and producer living in Ljubljana\, Slovenia. He is the author of numerous videos\, performances\, installations\, and new media works which have been presented in several exhibitions\, festivals and lectures around the world. He is the director of the film My Name is Janez Janša\, co-founder and director of Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art\, Ljubljana and artistic director of the Aksioma | Project Space.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”114198″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Marco Antonini is an active independent curator and writer. Some of his key curatorial projects have been produced by Japan Society\, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC)\, ISE Foundation\, Elizabeth Foundation\, The Italian Cultural Institute in New York\, Bevilacqua LaMasa Foundation\, Venice\, The International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP)\, FUTURA Center for Contemporary Art\, Prague\, CCE/G\, Guatemala City. Recent curatorial projects include Welcome to The Real an exhibition curated for {TEMP} art space\, an installation of artist Luigi Presicce’s Mistici e Maghi photo collection at SPRING BREAK and Richard\, a large multi-authored project dedicated to a re-evaluation of readymade art in contemporary practice. Antonini’s articles\, essays and interviews have been published worldwide on magazines\, journals\, catalogs and other exhibition-related publications\, he has edited …Is This Free? a collection of interviews\, published by NURTUREart in 2012 and currently working on a new book dedicated to the return of abstraction in painting.[/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/03-21-2014-my-name-is-janez-jansa/
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SUMMARY:Narrative Medicine
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator color=”white”][vc_column_text]What is Narrative Medicine? What are the connections between storytelling and clinical practice? What do the fields of creative writing\, medicine\, oral history and literary studies have to teach one another? \nNarrative Medicine teachers and practitioners Nellie Hermann\, Catherine Rogers\, and Danielle Spencer will discuss Narrative Medicine and what is happening at the nexus of these different disciplines in a panel moderated by Deepu Gowda\, physician and teacher. In addition to the history of the work and its growth\, the panelists will explore these interdisciplinary connections from different angles—the role of creativity in healthcare\, working with different populations of learners\, bringing experiences of illness and embodiment into documentary work\,and how it all may speak to a broader interest in storytelling\, embodiment and empowerment. The panelists will also lead the audience in an approximately half-hour long narrative medicine exercise.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator color=”white”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] \nDeepu Gowda\, MD\, MPH is a general internist and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is the Course Director of Foundations of Clinical Medicine\, which teaches Columbia’s students the medical interview\, physical exam\, and clinical reasoning He has been involved with the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia since 1999 in an effort to use narrative method to enhance medical education and effect institutional change towards a more humanistic practice. In his role as the chair of the Fundamentals Curriculum Committee at Columbia\, the committee charged with curricular oversight of the pre-clerkship curriculum\, he has worked with educators to better integrate narrative methods into the curriculum. His recent efforts in this field have included spearheading Art Matters\, a visual art education experience at the Frick Collection for the entire first year class\, leading small group discussions in Narrative Medicine workshops with health care professionals from around the world\, and co-developing and co-teaching a narrative medicine based interprofessional education course at Columbia’s health sciences campus. His particular interest within Narrative Medicine is on the use of close reading of texts and visual art to enhance one’s clinical attention and healing presence. His scholarship also includes innovations in teaching the physical exam. He was awarded best pre-clerkship educator by the Columbia medical students in 2011 and received the Ambulatory Medicine Teacher of the Year Award for 2008. In 2011\, he was appointed by Mayor Bloomberg to a 6-year term on the New York City Board of Health. \nNellie Hermann\, Creative Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University\, is a graduate of Brown University and the M.F.A. program at Columbia University. Her first novel\, The Cure for Grief (Scribner: 2008)\, received national acclaim in such publications as Time Magazine\, Elle\, The Washington Post\, The Boston Globe\, and others\, and was chosen as a Target “Breakout” book. Hermann’s short story “Can We Let the Baby Go?” won first prize in Glimmer Train’s 2008 “Family Matters” competition and was published in the Winter\, 2010 issue; another story of hers appeared in Glimmer Train in August\, 2012. Her non-fiction has appeared in an anthology about siblings\, Freud’s Blindspot (Free Press: 2010)\, as well as in Academic Medicine. She has been an invited resident to numerous artist residencies such as The Millay Colony\, The UCross Foundation\, and The Saltonstall Foundation of the Arts. Over the last eight years she has taught fiction and narrative medicine to undergraduates\, medical students\, graduate students\, and clinicians of all sorts\, and has given conference addresses in Iowa\, California\, Seoul\, Korea\, and elsewhere. Her second novel is forthcoming in February\, 2015 with Farrar\, Straus\, and Giroux. \nCatherine Rogers is a playwright and performer who lives and works in New York. Her fiction was recently published in the Gettysburg Review; she is anthologized in Our Changing Journey to the End (Praeger 2013)\, Spontaneous Combustion (Manhattan Theatre Source 2006)\, and Voices Made Flesh: Performing Women’s Autobiography (U Wisconsin 2003). Her solo performance The Sudden Death of Everyone was seen at Dixon Place in New York before touring to Greece. The Austin Texas Public Domain Theatre commissioned her full-length play Einstein’s Daughter later developed at the Cleveland Public Theatre. Rogers can be seen flashing past the camera in episodes of Mercy (NBC-TV) and in the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Columbia Pictures 2014). In feature roles\, she appears for Greenpoint Film Factory and documentarian Joe Goldman. She has taught writing at NYU\, Parsons School of Design\, Pratt Institute\, Aristotle University Thessaloniki\, University of Athens\, Theatre for a New Audience\, and others. She has given Narrative Medicine workshops for pre-med students\, literature students\, poets\, Fulbright scholars and artists\, and clinicians. A two-time Fulbright fellow in Greece and James A. Michener Fellow at the University of Texas\, where she earned her M.F.A.\, she is currently an M.S. candidate in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. \nDanielle Spencer is an Associate Faculty member of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University\, and Faculty of the Einstein-Cardozo Master of Science in Bioethics program. At Columbia University Medical Center she is the instructor for Narrative Medicine Rounds for Child Psychiatry fellows at New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital as well as the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program & MedPrep program; she is also on the faculty for the Macy Seminar on Interprofessional Teamwork and Narrative Medicine Intensive Workshops for clinicians\, and serves as co-instructor for courses in the Master of Science in Narrative Medicine program. In the Einstein-Cardozo program she is on the faculty of the Bioethics and Medical Humanities foundations course and teaches specialized seminars in the Master’s program as well\, including a course focused on visuality and the medical gaze. In addition\, Spencer worked as artist/musician David Byrne’s Art Director for many years\, serving as project manager\, editor\, collaborator and graphic designer for a wide array of multimedia projects. She also worked with photographer Nan Goldin and pursued graduate work in literary theory in Paris for several years. She has been published in WIRED magazine and Creative Nonfiction\, and is at work on a book about identity and perceptual/cognitive differences. Spencer holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University\, where she received the 2012 Narrative Medicine Fellowship award.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/03-23-2014-narrative-medicine/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:DISTANT STAR
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This event will feature two performances by sound artists Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Byron Westbrook with new Super 8 and 16mm films by Paul Clipson. \nAs part of the event\, Clipson will introduce and speak about REEL\, a new book of unique film projectionist drawings being released by Oakland-based LAND AND SEA. REEL unofficially surveys over a decade of 35mm screenings at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, where Clipson works as a projectionist\, and is an eccentric cinefile’s collection of technical notes for the ever-more rare art of celluloid filmmaking\, projection and exhibition. Also screening will be a montage of changeover moments\, or “cigarette burns\,” created by Clipson for the book’s artist’s edition. \nFor more information about the book at LAND AND SEA: http://landandseaeditions.virb.com/20-paul-clipson[/vc_column_text][vc_separator border_width=”2″][vc_column_text]Jefre Cantu-Ledesma is a Brooklyn-based musician who has performed in bands and under his own name since 1996. He is a founding member of the groups Tarentel\, The Alps\, Portraits\, and Moholy-Nagy as well as the Root Strata record label. His solo work is often generated from the electric guitar and orbits the gravity of memory\, melancholia\, excess\, and restraint. http://www.shiningskull.org/ \nByron Westbrook is an artist and composer working with the dynamic quality of physical space through site-specific installations and unique listening formats to activate architecture and community. He has presented work at Clocktower Gallery\, ISSUE Project Room\, Eyebeam\, Diapason Gallery\, LMAK Projects\, ExitArt (NYC)\, ICA London\, Human Resources (Los Angeles)\, The LAB (San Francisco)\, VIVO MediaArtCenter (Vancouver)\, O’ (Milan). He has been an artist in residence at Clocktower Gallery\, Wassaic Project\, Diapason Gallery\, Hotel Pupik\, and Institute of Intermedia. He has releases with Sedimental\, Los Discos Enfantasmes\, Three:Four Records. He holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College and lives and works in Brooklyn NY. http://www.byronwestbrook.com/ \n\n\n\nPaul Clipson is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who often collaborates with sound artists and musicians on films\, installations and performances. His Super 8 and 16mm films aim to bring to light subconscious visual preoccupations that reveal themselves while working in a stream of consciousness manner\, combining densely layered\, in-camera edited studies of figurative and abstract environments\, in a process that encourages unplanned-for results\, responding to and conversing with the temporal qualities of musical composition and live performance. http://www.withinmirrors.org/[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/03-29-2014-distant-star/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:JOKE ON A JOKE
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]An evening of video artists\, performance artists\, musicians\, and writers reenacting\, translating\, paying homage to\, improving upon\, and/or pissing all over classic stand-up routines from some of comedy’s most revered live performers. The artists in this program have been given free reign to choose their sources\, and may employ video\, music\, and other crutches to enhance their 4-6 minute long sets. \nHosted by Ben Coonley and featuring the derivative comedy stylings of Eileen Maxson\, Angie Waller\, Alina Simone\, Joel Holmberg\, Sophia Cleary\, Cecilia Dougherty\, Andrew Lampert\, Benjamin Hale\, Brian Droitcour\, David Kalal\, and Jordan Rathus…plus special guests. \nSpecial thanks Adam Khalil.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator border_width=”2″][vc_column_text]BEN COONLEY is an electronic media artist who sometimes uses the word “performance” in his short artist bios. He is best known for his cat videos and collaborations with Dr. Jonathan Zizmor. \nEILEEN MAXSON is an interdisciplinary artist working at the confluence of video\, performance and installation. Her works interrogate the line between imagination and consumer coercion; reconstituting cultural detritus\, material and fleeting\, into counterspells of memory\, merchandise and persona. \nDescribed by Paul McCarthy as “the funniest person in Los Angeles\,” and by Werner Herzog as “a funny bird\,” you might know ANGIE WALLER as the host of Search Engine Friendly Feud. When she’s not performing on stage\, she’s writing auto-generated romance novels and datamining for unknownunknowns.org. \nALINA SIMONE is the author of two books: the essay collection You Must Go and Win and the novel Note to Self\, both published by Faber. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal\, and she is a regular contributor to BBC’s The World. \nOn Thanksgivings JOEL HOLMBERG gave thanks for the gift of fear while repeatedly insisting that fear was a gift. \nSOPHIA CLEARY is a performance artist based in Brooklyn\, NY. She is the founder and coordinator of the works-in-progress series REHEARSAL and is co-editor for Ugly Duckling Presse’s performance annual Emergency INDEX. \nCECILIA DOUGHERTY is a visual artist and writer. She’s interested in studies of daily life\, issues of globalization and regionalism\, and the history of spirituality. Her first book\, The Irreducible I: Space\, Place\, Authenticity\, and Change\, was published in 2013 by Atropos Press. \nSome people say that ANDREW LAMPERT was born funny\, but he’s not laughing about it. He soon starts production on a charming comedy starring his toddler daughter and legendary TV talk show host Joe Franklin. \nBENJAMIN HALE is the author of the novels The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (Twelve\, 2011) and The Grid\, as well as the story collection The Minus World (both forthcoming from Simon & Schuster).  He currently teaches at Bard College. \nBRIAN DROITCOUR is a critic\, curator\, translator\, and an editor at the New Inquiry. His web site Fifteen Stars was featured in First Look\, the New Museum’s series of online exhibitions\, in October 2013\, and he is editing Klaus_eBooks\, a series of artists’ ebooks published by Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. \nDAVID KALAL has recently moved back to his hometown of NYC after a decade living in Sweden. His sense of what’s funny is appropriately dated and slightly melancholy. \nJORDAN RATHUS’ work questions our patterns of dialoguing and our collective contributions to the language of pop culture. She recontextualizes popular moving image formats like narrative film and reality television\, thereby providing room for active viewership and creating new forms of critique within the entertainment engine. \n\nB’klyn Burro. Bite into one of our amazing burritos and you’ll be teleported to 24th and Mission\, San Francisco. Food this good needs to be on both coasts. Well guess what\, IT IS! B’klyn Burro’s also brings tacos\, and quesadillas. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/03-30-2014-joke-on-a-joke/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Disappearance
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For part one\, eteam joins forces with Paul Amitai to merge history\, fiction\, documentation\, and sci-fi through a performative reading of Amitai’s “In Between States” and eteam’s “Buzz Cut”. Independently published\, both books explore the uncanny experience of observing foreign landscapes that are equally mundane and loaded with trace evidence from the past. It’s an exercise in “parallel storytelling” in which each artist’s overlapping images and text allow the audience to weave their own narrative through the counterpoint dialogue between the artists’ presentations. “In Between States” examines the relationship between two adjacent sites – a post-World War II displaced persons camp and a present-day corporate industry park located outside of Frankfurt. In 2012 eteam visited the towns of Mars and Moon Township in Pennsylvania. Their approach in “Buzz Cut” is documentary\, positioning themselves as cultural anthropologists who view the towns as if they were simulated environments on the planet Mars and Earth’s satellite\, the Moon. \nPart two will approach the theme of disappearance through excerpts of eteam’s “Space Delay” a work in progress and a work about con-artists and online identities\, “Track One” their shortest work to date incorporating yellow cabs in Taipei and Prim Limit\, the life of a dumpster in secondlife. Additionally\, ghost ships\, motorcycle chases and airplanes will provide a frame of reference for this section. \nPart three will be a discussion between eteam and Paul Amitai\, with moderator Jim Supanick. \nSince 2001\, eteam (Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger) traffic in transience. At the intersection of relational aesthetics\, the Internet and land art\, eteam coordinates collective happenings and conceptual transactions between the earthly plane and the realms of the interweb\, often reconstructed in digital realities\, hypnotic video work\, radio plays\, or more recently novellas. Their projects have been featured at P.S.1 MoMA NY\, Eyebeam NY\, Transmediale Berlin\, MUMOK Vienna\, Centre Pompidou Paris\, Neues Museum Weimar\, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Spain. eteam’s videos have been screened at\, The Taiwan International Documentary Festival in Taipei\, the New York Video Festival\, the International Film Festival Rotterdam\, and the Biennale of Moving Images in Geneva.  They have received grants from Art in General\, NYSCA\, Rhizome\, Creative Capital\, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, and were residents at Eyebeam\, Harvestworks\, Smack Mellon\, CLUI\, LMCC\, Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. www.meineigenheim.org \nPaul Amitai is an artist and musician who has exhibited and performed in North America\, Europe\, Australia\, and the Middle East\, and shared the stage with legends such as Run-DMC and The Specials. http://paul-amitai.com \nJim Supanick is an artist and writer whose work has appeared in artspaces and festivals internationally\, including the Cleveland Museum of Art\, PDX Festival\, Apex Art\, video_dumbo\, and the Dia Art Foundation.  His essays on film\, video\, and visual culture can be found in Film Comment\, Millennium Film Journal\, The Wire\, Cineaste\, and The Brooklyn Rail\, exhibition catalogs\, and with DVD releases.  He has the received support from  Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation and NYFA for his criticism\, and from NYSCA\, the Puffin Foundation\, and the Experimental Television Center for his video.  He is a member of Synthhumpers\, a quasi-musical collaboration with Josh Solondz.  Jim teaches at City College\, and is a member of the UnionDocs Advisory Board.  http://supanickblog.blogspot.com[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/04-06-2014-disappearance/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:SLEEPLESS NIGHTS
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\nThrough the stories of Assaad Shaftari\, a former high ranking intelligence officer in a Christian right wing militia\, responsible for many casualties in the protracted civil war in Lebanon and Maryam Saiidi\, the mother of Maher\, a missing young communist fighter who disappeared in 1982\, the film digs in the war wounds and asks if redemption and forgiveness are possible. \n\n\nSleepless Nights a film by Eliane Rehab \nHD | 128 min | 2012 | Lebanon \n\n\n“Eliane Raheb’s debut Sleepless Nights\, an out-of-nowhere knockout that brilliantly combines moral tenacity\, indefatigable reportage\, ingenious interpersonal manipulations\, and cop-to-the-construct formal reflexivity in pursuit of some measure of resolution in post-civil war Lebanon.”  -Eric Hynes\, Cinema Scope \n\n“It’s hard to find a Lebanese documentary that doesn’t touch on the country’s bloody civil war\, yet it’ll be even harder to find one better than “Sleepless Nights.” Helmer Eliane Raheb’s emotionally trenchant pic slices through fuzzy notions of forgiveness and reconciliation\, exposing the concept of clemency without justice as a mask that protects the perpetrators and leaves survivors with festering wounds.” -Jay Weissberg\, Variety \n\n  \nEliane Raheb was born in Lebanon and is the director of 2 short films: The last screening and Meeting\, and of the documentaries : Karib Baiid (So near yet so far)\, Intihar (Suicide) and Hayda Lubnan (“This is Lebanon”) which received the Excellency Award at the Yamagata film festival\, and was broadcasted on ARTE/ZDF/ Al Jadeed and NHK. Layali Bala Noom (Sleepless nights) is her first feature documentary. With Nizar Hassan\, she founded ITAR productions\, and the cross media documentary Arabi Hor (Free Arabs) www.arabihor.com \, a project on the dailies of people within the Arab revolutions\, that produced 160 short documentaries aired online. She is also one of the founders of the cultural cooperative for cinema Beirut DC \, where she was the artistic director of “Ayam Beirut al Cinem’iya” film festival for 6 editions. \nTom McCarthy is the writer and director of THE STATION AGENT\, THE VISITOR\, and WIN WIN. He also shared story credit on Pixar’s UP for which he received an Oscar nomination. McCarthy\, primarily known for his acting before entering the filmmaking scene\, continues his career as an actor and has appeared in such films as FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS\, SYRIANA\, GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK\, MEET THE PARENTS\, ALL THE KING’S MEN\, and on the final season of HBO’s THE WIRE. McCarthy has just finished filming his latest writing/directing endeavor\, THE COBBLER\, starring Adam Sandler and Dustin Hoffman. He is currently editing the film.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/04-12-2014-sleepless-nights/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:The Untitled Kondabolu Brothers Podcast Live
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Untitled Kondabolu Brothers Project (UKBP) is a live talk show with mostly improvised banter and a carefully prepared powerpoint presentation along with a super secret guest. Past topics have included: Peak Oil theory\, cultural appropriation\, the Illuminati\, Blipsters\, police brutality and Ashok’s vitamin manifesto. Tonight’s show will be recorded as part of The Untitled Kondabolu Brothers Podcast. Their website is http://kondabolubrothers.com/.  \nHari Kondabolu is a standup comedian who has appeared on Conan\, Jimmy Kimmel Live\, John Oliver’s NY Standup Show and has his own half-hour special on Comedy Central. He was also a writer for “Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell” on the FX Network. His debut album “Waiting for 2042” came out on indie-label Kill Rock Stars earlier this Spring and can be purchased here: http://www.killrockstars.com/waitingfor2042/. His website is harikondabolu.com and you can find him on Twitter at @harikondabolu. \n  \nAshok Kondabolu was the hypeman “Dapwell” of the now-defunct rap-group Das Racist. He is also the creator of the online interview/documentary series “Chillin’ Island” and is a DJ on the East Village Radio show of the same name. He also writes columns and reviews for online magazines Noisey and Talkhouse. His website is dapwell.com and you can find him on Twitter at @dapwell \n  \n \nSocio-political comedian W. Kamau Bell has emerged as the post-modern voice of comedy. Named an Ambassador of Racial Justice by the ACLU\, his weekly half-hour FX comedy series\, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell\, premiered in August 2012 and became a critically acclaimed but criminally short nightly show in September of 2013 on FX’s new comedy network FXX. The NY Times called Kamau “the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years.” The show was nominated for “Best Talk Series” at the 2012 NAACP Image Awards and Salon.com listed Kamau on their “Sexiest Men of 2012” list\, calling the series “surreptitiously revolutionary in its effortless diversity and humanism.” The San Francisco Chronicle raved\, “it makes The Daily Show seem like something your dad watches.” Totally Biased was executive produced by Chris Rock\, who became a fan after seeing a performance of Kamau’s one man show.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/04-13-2014-untitled-kondabolu-brothers-podcast/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:Penumbra and Letter
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Letter a film by Sergei Loznitsa \n2013 | HD / Blu-ray | Color | 20 min \nOver 10 years ago\, Loznitsa shot astounding black-and-white footage at a psychiatric institution in a forgotten corner of Russia. Since then it has resided in his archive. In recent years\, he has made documentaries all on the same subject: ‘Homo Sovieticus’. In Letter he describes this country as a place inhabited by unconscious prisoners. No human voice can be heard and the pain is stifled in this unsullied environment. \nPenumbra a film by Eduardo Villanueva \n2013 | México | HD / Blu-ray | Color | 98 min \nPortrait of a poor and aged couple waiting for death and filling time with the rituals of routine. Picturesque and realistic documentary\, with a leading role for the wild Mexican countryside under the smoke of one of the most active volcanoes on the continent. \nThe border area between the Mexican coastal provinces of Jalisco and Colima is dry\, rocky and wild. The sparse population of this poor and isolated region speaks a dialect difficult to follow for outsiders. Their everyday battle for existence is larded with rituals\, in which spirits and natural faith play an important role. \nThe film follows the old hunter Adelelmo Jimenez on his journeys through the forest\, setting traps for wild animals and searching for medicinal plants. His pious wife Dolores stays at home\, does the washing\, prepares a frugal meal. \n‘Penumbra’ is a term from optics and means half-shadow. Eduardo Villanueva shot his entire film in the hours between daylight and darkness. In this way\, he augments the mood of a state in between\, a social vacuum in which time seems to stand still. This is also a reference to the clair-obscur in paintings by for instance Caravaggio – intemperate\, dramatic light-dark contrasts suggesting depth and volume. \nBesides being painterly\, ‘Penumbra’ is deeply human. Via the lives of an ageing married couple\, the film portrays a world that is disappearing. Adelelmo Suffers from asthma\, which not only affects his lungs but also his mental defences. Dolores mourns for her son\, who was stabbed to death trying to cross the Mexican-American border. She’s waiting for the end. \nDescriptions courtesy of Rotterdam Film Festival. \nEvgeny Gusyatinskiy studied film history and theory at the VGIK (All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography). Aftter his studies\, Gusyatinskiy has been working as a film critic and journalist for a range of Russian media. He is an editor of Film Art (Russian: Iskusstvo Kino)\, the oldest film magazine in Europe. Gusyatinskiy has been visiting IFFR since 2005\, where he was part of the IFFR’s Young Film Critics Project. He has been selecting full-length films for the Kinotavr Film Festival in Sochi since 2006 and compiles programmes for the Pioner Cinema arthouse cinema in Moscow. For IFFR\, Evgeny Gusyatinskiy selects feature films from Russia\, Central and Eastern Europe. \nInge de Leeuw studied Cultural Studies and Film & Television Studies in the Netherlands. She started working at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in 2006 which she combined with working in film production. Inge de Leeuw is selecting films for the IFFR from North America\, Great Britain\, Ireland\, Australia and New Zealand and is in the selection committee of the Tiger Awards Competition. For IFFR she curated several thematic programmes about the relationship between film and popular culture (fashion\, television\, augmented reality). Besides IFFR Inge de Leeuw is also writing about film and related media. \nOriginally from Mexico City\, Lucila Moctezuma has collaborated with New York’s independent film community since 1996. Previous to joining UnionDocs she was manager of the Production Assistance Program at Women Make Movies\, a program that provides support to women filmmakers in the development of their media projects. Formerly\, she was director of the Media Arts Fellowships for the Rockefeller Foundation\, a highly prestigious program that supported media artists in the U.S. and Latin America\, and she founded and was coordinator of the TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund for the Tribeca Film Institute. Lucila sits on the founding executive board of Cine Qua Non Lab\, a residency for international filmmakers based in Michoacán\, Mexico\, is vice-president of the board of trustees of The Flaherty\, and serves on the advisory board for Rooftop Films. She has frequently collaborated with international film festivals including the Morelia Film Festival in Mexico and the Huesca Film Festival in Spain and media organizations\, such as Cinema Tropical. She has served on selection panels for the Jerome Foundation\, the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund\, the International Emmy Awards\, the Gucci Ambulante Fellowship (Mexico)\, and Cinergia Foundation (Costa Rica) among others. Her work as associate producer includes the documentary series “The New Americans” for Kartemquin Films\, and “Shocking and Awful” for Deep Dish TV\, which was part of the 2006 Whitney Biennial. She studied Philosophy at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. \nEduardo Villanueva (1970\, Mexico) is an artist and independent filmmaker. He is a scriptwriter\, director and producer. He studied music and architecture in Guadalajara. His first feature film  Reise Nach Tulum/A Trip to Tulum (2011) took seven years to produce. With the script Tramp (2010) he was granted by the Global Film Initiative Award. Penumbra\, his second film\, was supported by the Hubert Bals Fund. It was a nominee for the Tiger Award 2013 and received the Lions Film Award at Rotterdam IFF. It has been presented in more than 20 film festivals around the world such as Edinburgh\, Durban\, Thessaloniki\, Morelia\, Brightson\, Teplice\, Gijón\, Kerala\, the Museum  Reina Sofia in Madrid. The film received the FIPRESCI Award at the 28th Mar del Piata IFF. \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/04-19-14-letter-and-penumbra/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:Documentary Planning
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nWhat are the essential business and legal issues to consider as you plan your documentary film? What can you do now to avoid problems later? Do you need an LLC? What is E&O insurance? This session covers issues of legal rights and clearances\, business basics for filmmakers\, budgeting\, structuring agreements for talent and crew\, and more. \nFeatured Presenters: \n  \nTom Davis is a partner at SeeThink Films. He produced their debut film\, DARKON (IFC TV) which is currently optioned for a narrative remake by Plan B / Paramount. He produced New World Order (IFC TV) and was the lead producer of SeeThink’s narrative debut KING KELLY. He is currently in production on a untitled feature documentary with director Luke Meyer. Projects in development include the hybrid documentary HOLY WATER\, to be directed by Josh Nussbaum of MssngPeces\, and FOURTH WALL\, a documentary about a psychotherapy cult\, with Meyer. \n  \nA member of the New York law firm of Shatzkin & Mayer\, P.C.\, Karen Shatzkin has worked on legal issues affecting documentary films for more than 25 years\, primarily on behalf of independent filmmakers and independent production companies. She has vetted films pre-release; negotiated contracts with creative personnel\, distributors\, studios\, and networks; and responded to claims against filmmakers. Her clients run the gamut from well-established\, award-winning documentarians to first-time filmmakers. A graduate of Columbia Law School\, Ms. Shatzkin has an active litigation practice in addition to her transactional work for filmmakers and other creative clients.  She has conducted numerous seminars to documentary filmmakers about fair use and other legal issues affecting documentary production.  More details about Ms. Shatzkin’s background are available at www.shatzkinmayer.com and a number of film projects she has advised are on her IMDb entry. \nSIERRA PETTENGILL is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. Town Hall\, her directorial debut\, will broadcast on PBS’ America ReFramed on April 1\, 2014. She is the producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary Cutie and the Boxer\, and the archival producer of Matt Wolf’s Teenage (Tribeca ‘13) and Ross Kauffman & Katy Chevigny’s E-Team (Sundance ’14). For PBS\, she was the associate producer of the Emmy-nominated Walt Whitman\, as well as the Peabody Award-winning Triangle Fire. She was also the associate producer of HBO’s Wartorn: 1861 – 2010\, produced by James Gandolfini\, and Nick Bentgen’s Northern Light. \nCUTIE AND THE BOXER \nA reflection on love\, sacrifice\, and the creative spirit\, this candid New York documentary explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of renowned “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara and his artist wife Noriko. As a rowdy\, confrontational young artist in Tokyo\, Ushio seemed destined for fame\, but he is met with little commercial success after he moves to New York City in 1969\, seeking international recognition. When 19-year-old Noriko moved to New York to study art\, she fell in love with Ushio—abandoning her education to become the unruly artist’s wife and assistant. Over the course of their marriage\, their roles shifted. Now 80\, Ushio still struggles to establish his artistic legacy\, while Noriko is at last being recognized for her own art—a series of drawings entitled “Cutie\,” depicting her challenging past with Ushio. Spanning four decades\, the film is a moving portrait of a couple wrestling with the eternal themes of sacrifice\, disappointment and aging\, against a background of lives dedicated to art. \n  \nA nuts-and-bolts professional development series designed for the beginning or intermediate documentary filmmaker\, Documentary Fundamentals @ UnionDocs is six-week course culminating in a certificate of completion. Registrants can also attend individual sessions. This curriculum developed out of our experience hearing what fundamentals documentarians need to understand to plan\, produce\, and release an independent documentary today. \n\nHosted by the Cutie and the Boxer (2013) team\, Documentary Fundamentals is essential learning for the documentary filmmaker\, covering business basics\, fundraising and financing\, production and post-production strategies\, transmedia campaigns\, sales and distribution models.  Each session features guest speakers sharing tips and secrets of the trade\, with an emphasis on real-life case studies and best practices.  Full guest speaker list to be announced. \nDocumentary Fundamentals is designed for beginning or intermediate filmmakers with projects in any stage of development or production (even the daydreaming stage!).  Sessions combine formal presentations with extensive time for in-depth discussions with participants. \nRegistrants completing all six sessions will receive a Certificate of Completion\, and will have special opportunities to promote their projects within the UnionDocs network.  Specific guests and topics are subject to change. Doors will closed at 7:15 and we will being each session promptly at 7:30pm. \nFULL SCHEDULE: \n4/27 | Planning Your Documentary – featuring producer Tom Davis (SeeThink) and attorney Karen Shatzkin\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n5/4 | Financing Your Documentary – featuring José Rodriguez (Tribeca Film Institute)\, John T. Trigonis (Indiegogo) and CPA Fred Siegel\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n5/16 | Directing and Shooting Your Documentary – featuring Oscar-winning filmmaker Ross Kauffman\, award-winning filmmaker Malika Zouhali-Worrall\, hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling. \nNOTE: This session will be hosted by AbelCine in Manhattan (609 Greenwhich Street) \n5/18 | Editing Your Documentary – featuring editor David Teague (The Brooklyn Vitagraph Company)\, Will Cox (Final Frame)\, hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling. \n6/1 | Graphics\, Music\, and Your Transmedia Campaign – featuring graphic designer Teddy Blanks (CHIPS) and musician T. Griffin\,  hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling \nNOTE: At 5pm before this session Macktez will present a special free planning bootcamp workshop as a supplement to the series\, featuring Noah Landow and Reed Payne. \n6/8 | Releasing Your Documentary – featuring programmer Dan Nuxoll (Rooftop Films)\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n  \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/04-27-14-documentary-planning/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Labs
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SUMMARY:Ukrainian Protest Cinema
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Maidan in Kyiv\, Ukraine has captivated the world’s stage since November of 2013. What initially started as a desire for closer ties with Europe\, the Maidan movement has grown into a demand against corrupt government and basic human rights.  Join us as we discuss this movement and the current crisis in Ukraine with filmmakers and Ukrainian activists who have been using their cameras as weapons to tell the story of the people of Maidan. With excerpts of films by Lesya Kalynska/Ruslan Batytsky and Olha Onyshko\, shorts by Vanessa Black\, Babylon 13\, and IndieLab. \nThe organizer of this event\, Roxy Toporowych is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts\, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Television. She is a filmmaker as well as the Program Director of the American Independence Film Festival in Kyiv\, Ukraine\, a festival which works in collaboration with the US Embassy to bring American filmmakers and stories to a Ukrainian audience.    Since 2007 Roxy has worked for the Sundance Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival as a screener for their festival programs as well as a video content producer.  Her company\, KinoRox Productions\, was founded while she was directing her first documentary feature\, Folk!  about the underground world of Ukrainian folk dancing in New York City.  The goal of KinoRox Productions is to engage and inspire it’s audience with unique\, character driven stories\, focusing on the Eastern European experience.  She is currently editing a short documentary about her personal experience on the Maidan in December of 2013. \nAndrij Dobriansky is an Executive Board Member of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and a UN Representative for the Ukrainian World Congress.   He is an arts industry and community advocacy professional with a background in Eastern European and Asian arts and culture.   Andrij has been a spokesperson for the Ukrainian community during the current crisis\, appearing on CNN\, AL Jazeera\, Fox News and other media outlets. \nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andrijdobriansky\n Yuri Shevchuk is a Lecturer\, in the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University.  He founded  Columbia University’s Ukrainian Film Club (UFCCU) which is a forum for showcasing the best of Ukrainian cinema\, both classic and new\, to the Greater New York public and to film enthusiasts across the United States and Canada. Since its establishment in October 2004\, the Club has become a unique international initiative connecting Ukrainian filmmakers with the world. \nhttp://www.columbia.edu/cu/ufc//index.html \nhttp://harriman.columbia.edu/people/yuri-shevchuk \n \nLesya Kalynska is an award-winning filmmaker. Originally from Ukraine\, she currently lives between Kyiv and NYC pursuing her career as the CEO of the production company Pomegranate Studios. Green card holder. Kalynska earned her MFA in directing and writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. The short films Balloonist and The Debt\, which she directed and produced respectively\, have been screened internationally\, including at the Sundance and Tribeca festivals\, winning the Best Student Film Award at the Hope and Dreams IFF in NJ\, as well as awards at Manheim IFF\, Hampton IFF\, and the Los Angeles Annual Showcase. Recently Lesya directed a TV documentary series\, Level of Secrecy 18\, produced the documentary Salt in The Air and co-produced short Ukrainian Lessons\, which won the Fipresci Award in 2013. Currently Kalynska directing the documentary Land of the Lost Crusaders in its post-production stage and shooting a film about the Maidan\, Heaven Admits No Slaves (with Ruslan Batytsky)\, of which she will show an excerpt. \n Olha Onyshko is originally from Western Ukraine\, from the region of Galicia. She began her career in Ukraine as a broadcast journalist. She worked for almost 10 years in communications\, running public education campaigns to promote democracy and market reforms in Ukraine for several international development organizations. When working for the World Bank\, she provided trainings and support for NGOs in Ukraine\, Belarus and Moldova. In 2002\, she moved to the United States\, worked as a reporter for Voice of America and then in 2006 went back to school to obtain her Masters of Fine Arts in Film and Electronic Media. After producing and directing several short films\, Olha completed the production of feature length documentary Three Stories of Galicia in 2010. She will show excerpts from this recent film on Sunday. \nVanessa Black is a filmmaker based in NYC. Using pop-culture language\, she aims to tell stories that can reshape our world politically and socially.  Her project #UkraineRising aims to tell the human stories and not just the breaking stories behind the crisis. The project encompasses a digital youtube series\, content for a feature film\, and a large format photo series.  Her large format photography exhibit\, “Defenders: Heroes of Maidan”  is currently on display in SHNY Place Gallery in New York.  Vanessa will share episodes of her digital series #UkraineRising and discuss her experience filming on Maidan post the February 18th sniper attacks. \n  \n\nA member of the IndieLab team and director/scriptwriter/cameraman for More than Nikolai (TRT 12:49)\, Oksana Shornik is a graduate from the Kherson State University. Oksana is a journalist and a freelance correspondent of the Tonis TV channel and the Segodnia newspaper. She has been working as a radio and TV journalist at Kherson’s lead National TV and Radio Company Skifia since 2005. She participated in international TV and radio festivals and in Kherson Document Documentary Film Festival. Oksana also worked in the genre of investigative journalism. She is a member of the National Union  of Journalists of Ukraine since 2010. \n\nIndieLab Kyiv – The Indie Lab initiative is a documentary film workshop for young Ukrainian filmmakers. The films were developed over a two month process of workshops taught by American and Ukrainian experts and are part of the U.S. Embassy’s American Independence Film Festival (AIFF) – the only film festival in Ukraine that celebrates the tradition of independent American and Ukrainian filmmaking.    Indie Lab documentaries follow the stories of everyday people and explore their contributions to Ukriane’s resilient civil society and grassroots democratic tradition.  We will be screening the film More than Nikolai (TRT 12:49) as part of our program. \n\n\nBabylon ’13: In their instantaneous reaction to the events of November 30th\, where peaceful protestors in favor of Ukraine joining the EU \, were attacked and violently dispersed\,  a group of Ukrainian cinematographers joined together and formed Babylon ’13.  They started to record the further course of civil protest\,  filming their reality in the light of a director’s creative perspective.  They filmed the mood of the people and the events left off-screen by typical journalists reporting from the hotspots of Kyiv.  Together\, the group of filmmakers\, directors\, screenwriters and cinematographers united to tell the story of the Ukrainian Maidan and provide a better understanding of what is going on in their world.  Our night will begin with the screening of several of Babylon ’13 works. \n\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/05-03-2014-ukrainian-protest-cinema/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:Vincent Moon 3.0: Petites Planetes
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\nVincent Moon\, the french filmmaker responsible for the Take Away Shows is back in New York. \nAfter documenting rock and pop music while based in Paris or on tour with REM or The Arcade Fire\, he left for a new kind of adventure – 5 years traveling around the world\, collecting sounds and images from shamanic rituals deep in Peru to sufi trances from Chechnya\, from orthodox chants in Ethiopia to experimental folklore music from Java\, and much more. \nThe result\, his Collection Petites Planètes\, composed of more than 100 films and digital albums exploring music\, is all available for free online on his website\, under CC licence. He will present in exclusivity some of his new works with us. \n \nOKO • NUR-ZHOVKHAR (chansons de Tchétchénie) from Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes on Vimeo. \n  \n \n\nVincent Moon (real name Mathieu Saura\, born August 25\, 1979) is an independent filmmaker from Paris. He was the main director of the Blogotheque’s Take Away Shows\, a web-based project recording field work music videos of indie rock related musicians as well as some notable mainstream artists like Tom Jones\, R.E.M.\, or Arcade Fire. For the past five years\, Vincent Moon has been traveling around the globe with a camera in his backpack\, documenting local folklores\, sacred music and religious rituals\, for his label Collection Petites Planètes. He works alone or with people he finds on the road\, and most of the time without money involved in the projects\, trying to produce and distribute films without following the established industry standards. He shares all his work\, films and music recordings\, for free on internet\, under Creative Commons licence. \n  \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/05-04-2014-vincent-moon-petites-planetes/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140504T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140504T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T090327
CREATED:20140415T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T213940Z
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SUMMARY:Documentary Financing
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nThis 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)? We will also have veteran independent film accountant Fred Siegel to talk about tax ramifications and planning around financing as well as investor relations. Budgeting\, how to find and successfully apply for grants\, tips and tools for crowdfunding and other approaches to getting funded will be discussed in addition for this can’t-miss session. \n  \nFeatured Presenters: \nJosé Rodriguez is the Manager of Documentary Programming at the Tribeca Film Institute. A native of Puerto Rico\, he grew up with a passion for movies that led him to Syracuse University\, where he wrote a feature script and directed two shorts. After interning as an assistant to producer Amy Hobby\, he settled in New York City and became a script/book reader for Overture Films while also working on Tze Chun’s Children of Invention and the documentary Poor Consuelo Conquers the World. Follow him on Twitter: @theJoFer \n  \n  \nA behind-the-scenes consulting machine\, John T. Trigonis has mentored hundreds of filmmakers worldwide to create compelling crowdfunding experiences that not only reach\, but also exceed their goals. An indie filmmaker and successful crowdfunder himself\, Trigonis has literally written the book on Crowdfunding for Filmmakers\, and puts his prowess to greater use as Indiegogo’s specialist for film and video campaigns. \n  \n  \nFred Siegel is an indie film\, tax\, and business consultant and founder of Fred Siegel\, CPA\, specializing in key tax and business issues for producers and dealing with the business of film. Fred is a former jazz musician and entrepreneur: those experiences infuse Fred’s professional work today with an independent spirit and artistic bent and understanding of the lives of artists/producers\, the world of business\, and the interplay between the two. Fred has worked for over 20 years with independent filmmakers and their development and production companies and creative professionals. His experience includes working on numerous independent films\, including “Winters Bone” and “Boys Don’t Cry\,” and with both acclaimed filmmakers such as Christine Vachon\, Debra Granik\, and Paul Mezey\, and filmmakers in earlier stages of their careers. Fred is a graduate of Columbia University (Economics\, Phi Beta Kappa\, Magna Cum Laude) and attended NYU’s Graduate School of Business (taxation; accounting). \nSIERRA PETTENGILL is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. Town Hall\, her directorial debut\, will broadcast on PBS’ America ReFramed on April 1\, 2014. She is the producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary Cutie and the Boxer\, and the archival producer of Matt Wolf’s Teenage (Tribeca ‘13) and Ross Kauffman & Katy Chevigny’s E-Team (Sundance ’14). For PBS\, she was the associate producer of the Emmy-nominated Walt Whitman\, as well as the Peabody Award-winning Triangle Fire. She was also the associate producer of HBO’s Wartorn: 1861 – 2010\, produced by James Gandolfini\, and Nick Bentgen’s Northern Light. \nCUTIE AND THE BOXER \nA reflection on love\, sacrifice\, and the creative spirit\, this candid New York documentary explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of renowned “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara and his artist wife Noriko. As a rowdy\, confrontational young artist in Tokyo\, Ushio seemed destined for fame\, but he is met with little commercial success after he moves to New York City in 1969\, seeking international recognition. When 19-year-old Noriko moved to New York to study art\, she fell in love with Ushio—abandoning her education to become the unruly artist’s wife and assistant. Over the course of their marriage\, their roles shifted. Now 80\, Ushio still struggles to establish his artistic legacy\, while Noriko is at last being recognized for her own art—a series of drawings entitled “Cutie\,” depicting her challenging past with Ushio. Spanning four decades\, the film is a moving portrait of a couple wrestling with the eternal themes of sacrifice\, disappointment and aging\, against a background of lives dedicated to art. \nA nuts-and-bolts professional development series designed for the beginning or intermediate documentary filmmaker\, Documentary Fundamentals @ UnionDocs is six-week course culminating in a certificate of completion. Registrants can also attend individual sessions. This curriculum developed out of our experience hearing what fundamentals documentarians need to understand to plan\, produce\, and release an independent documentary today. \n\nHosted by the Cutie and the Boxer (2013) team\, Documentary Fundamentals is essential learning for the documentary filmmaker\, covering business basics\, fundraising and financing\, production and post-production strategies\, transmedia campaigns\, sales and distribution models.  Each session features guest speakers sharing tips and secrets of the trade\, with an emphasis on real-life case studies and best practices.  Full guest speaker list to be announced. \nDocumentary Fundamentals is designed for beginning or intermediate filmmakers with projects in any stage of development or production (even the daydreaming stage!).  Sessions combine formal presentations with extensive time for in-depth discussions with participants. \nRegistrants completing all six sessions will receive a Certificate of Completion\, and will have special opportunities to promote their projects within the UnionDocs network.  Specific guests and topics are subject to change. Doors will closed at 7:15 and we will being each session promptly at 7:30pm. \nFULL SCHEDULE: \n4/27 | Planning Your Documentary – featuring producer Tom Davis (SeeThink) and attorney Karen Shatzkin\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n5/4 | Financing Your Documentary – featuring José Rodriguez (Tribeca Film Institute)\, John T. Trigonis (Indiegogo) and CPA Fred Siegel\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n5/16 | Directing and Shooting Your Documentary – featuring Oscar-winning filmmaker Ross Kauffman\,  award-winning filmmaker Malika Zouhali-Worrall\, hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling. \nNOTE: This session will be hosted by AbelCine in Manhattan (609 Greenwhich Street) \n5/18 | Editing Your Documentary – featuring editor David Teague (The Brooklyn Vitagraph Company)\, Will Cox (Final Frame) hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling. \n6/1 | Graphics\, Music\, and Your Transmedia Campaign – featuring graphic designer Teddy Blanks (CHIPS) and musician T. Griffin\,  hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling \nNOTE: At 5pm before this session Macktez will present a special free planning bootcamp workshop as a supplement to the series\, featuring Noah Landow and Reed Payne. \n6/8 | Releasing Your Documentary – featuring programmer Dan Nuxoll (Rooftop Films)\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n  \n  \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/05-04-2014-documentary-financing/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Labs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140511T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140511T193000
DTSTAMP:20260427T090327
CREATED:20140414T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180424T191331Z
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SUMMARY:The Ties that Bind: Documentary and Families
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nLife in a rural industrial town: a teenage boy\, his family\, friends and failed attempt at love are investigated through stark black-and-white photography and static long takes. Filmed in a fusion of authentic and staged documentation\, with robotic performances by actors and non-actors\, the piece meditates on the mundane existence of human and animal life. \nAlso\, don’t miss the upcoming premiere of Fotopoulos’ Dignity at Spectacle Theater May 22nd (7:30 and 10:00pm). \nFamilies a film by James Fotopoulos \n16mm film (b/w) | 97 min | 2002 | USA \n“Families bears the stylistic traits of his earlier feature-length films but expands the number of characters and locations. closeding with a portentous shot of nearly motionless sheep\, the black-and-white film develops in disaffected dialogue scenes interspersed with shots of dreary Midwestern exteriors. The main strain of the narrative focuses on a young man and woman and their prolonged\, halting conversations\, many of which revolve around death. Yet none of the violence recounted in these exchanges takes place on screen\, where life is characterized by the absence of physical contact\, robotic soliloquy\, and a general sense of forlorn ennui. Recurring throughout the film are repeated shots of the sheep form the closeding\, dogs\, or fish in an aquarium\, paradigmatically linking animals to the characters and their awkward interactions. Fotopoulos suggests that the titular familial ties refer to larger structures of kinship\, and constructs a bleak parallel in the common markers of human and animal existence.” – Henriette Huldisch\, Whitney Museum of American Art\, Whitney Biennial 2004 \n“Crafted with the same sculptural symmetry of his previous films\, Families re-imagines human society as the struggles of multiple collections of organisms\, each facing the inevitable move toward entropy and death.” -Ed Halter\, New York Underground Film Festival \n“Groundbreaking.” -Perry Brass\, Gay City \n“Families is his best yet\, surprisingly combining a greater sense of humanity with a greater feeling of cinematic experimentation.” -James DiGiovanna\, Tucson Weekly \n  \nJames Fotopoulos is a filmmaker who began production on his first feature-length film\, ZERO (1997)\, in 1995. In 1998\, he founded Fantasma for the production of his second feature\, Migrating Forms (1999)\, and would continue to create a number of critically acclaimed narrative feature films\, such as Back Against the Wall (2000)\, Families (2002)\, The Nest (2003) and Dignity (2012).   Along with his narrative productions\, Fotopoulos has created a prolific body of over 200 non-narrative films\, which include Christabel (2001)\, Esophagus (2004)\, The Mirror Mask (2005)\, The Sky Song (2007) and Alice in Wonderland (2010). These works range from feature length to a few seconds long and combine an exhaustive portfolio of visual art and performance techniques.  Fotopoulos’ work received a retrospective at the Anthology Film Archives; premiered at the Museum of Modern Art\, MoMA PS1\, Festival del Film Locarno and the Museum of Art and Design; and was screened and exhibited widely at a number of film festivals\, museums\, and sites\, such as Rotterdam International Film Festival\, Sundance Film Festival\, London Film Festival\, Whitney Biennial\, Walker Art Center\, and the Andy Warhol Museum\, among many others. \nRebecca Cleman is the Director of Distribution of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). She has  programmed or curated media for such venues as the New York Underground Film Festival\, the Museum of Art and Design\, Anthology Film Archives\, and Andrea Rosen Gallery. Most recently\, she led a roundtable discussion about “video art” for the ICA in Philadelphia\, and co-organized a screening of films by Tommy Turner for Spectacle Theater\, Brooklyn. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-05-10-ties-bind-documentary-families/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140516T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140516T193000
DTSTAMP:20260427T090327
CREATED:20140415T040000Z
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SUMMARY:Documentary Shooting & Directing
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Documentary filmmakers produce and shoot in a wide variety of locations under many different practical\, financial\, technical and legal constraints. What kind of equipment do you need? Who do you need on your production team? How do you deal with emergencies during shooting and how do you pick out a camera and DP? Should I be thinking of archival material in advance? This session will take place at series partner AbelCine in Manhattan (609 Greenwhich Street). \nFeatured Presenters: \nRoss Kauffman is the director\, producer\, cinematographer\, and coeditor of Born into Brothels\, winner of the 2005 Academy Award for best documentary and more than 40 other awards\, including one for best documentary from the National Board of Review and the Sundance Film Festival 2004 documentary Audience Award. He also executive-produced In a Dream\, shortlisted for the 2009 Academy Award for best documentary feature. Kaufmann’s latest feature E-Team (co-directed by Kate Chevigny) had it’s World Premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival to much acclaim where it won the Cinematography Award in the U.S. Documentary category. \n  \nMALIKA ZOUHALI-WORRALL is a filmmaker of British/Moroccan origin. She is the co-director and producer of CALL ME KUCHU (2012)\, a documentary that depicts the last year in the life of the first closedly gay man in Uganda\, David Kato. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival\, where it won the Teddy Award for Best Documentary and the Cinema Fairbindet Prize. It has since won 18 more awards—including Best International Feature at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival—and has been theatrically distributed in Canada\, Germany\, the UK and the US. Malika is a Chaz & Roger Ebert Directing Fellow and an alumnus of the Film Independent Documentary Lab and the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. In 2012\, Filmmaker Magazine named Malika one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Most recently she co-directed a series of short documentaries for Human Rights Watch. Her journalism work has been published in The Financial Times\, and she has reported for CNN.com from India\, Uganda\, China\, and the U.S. Malika holds an M.A. in International Affairs from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po)\, and she is a graduate of Cambridge University. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY with her husband\, journalist Andy Greenberg. \nZACHARY HEINZERLING is a film director based in Brooklyn\, New York. His debut feature\, Cutie and the Boxer is currently nominated for a 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Film. The critically acclaimed film won prizes at top film festivals around the world and was featured on many best film lists of 2013\, including that of A.O. Scott from the New York Times and Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal. The film received a field leading three 2014 Cinema Eye Honors\, for Outstanding Debut Feature\, Outstanding Original Score\, and Outstanding Visual Effects. Zachary was the winner of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival Directing Award for US Documentary. He was awarded the Charles Guggenheim Emerging Artist award at the 2013 Full Frame Film Festival. He was the recipient of the 2013 International Documentary Association’s Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award\, which recognizes the achievements of a filmmaker who has made a significant impact at the beginning of his or her career in documentary film. He was nominated for a 2014 DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary. He began his career at HBO\, where he worked on four consecutive Emmy Award-winning documentaries as a Field Producer and Cinematographer. Most recently he directed a five-part web series with Beyoncé Knowles-Carter entitled “Self-Titled” for her latest album “Beyoncé”. \nCUTIE AND THE BOXER \nA reflection on love\, sacrifice\, and the creative spirit\, this candid New York documentary explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of renowned “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara and his artist wife Noriko. As a rowdy\, confrontational young artist in Tokyo\, Ushio seemed destined for fame\, but he is met with little commercial success after he moves to New York City in 1969\, seeking international recognition. When 19-year-old Noriko moved to New York to study art\, she fell in love with Ushio—abandoning her education to become the unruly artist’s wife and assistant. Over the course of their marriage\, their roles shifted. Now 80\, Ushio still struggles to establish his artistic legacy\, while Noriko is at last being recognized for her own art—a series of drawings entitled “Cutie\,” depicting her challenging past with Ushio. Spanning four decades\, the film is a moving portrait of a couple wrestling with the eternal themes of sacrifice\, disappointment and aging\, against a background of lives dedicated to art. \nA nuts-and-bolts professional development series designed for the beginning or intermediate documentary filmmaker\, Documentary Fundamentals @ UnionDocs is six-week course culminating in a certificate of completion. Registrants can also attend individual sessions. This curriculum developed out of our experience hearing what fundamentals documentarians need to understand to plan\, produce\, and release an independent documentary today. \n\nHosted by the Cutie and the Boxer (2013) team\, Documentary Fundamentals is essential learning for the documentary filmmaker\, covering business basics\, fundraising and financing\, production and post-production strategies\, transmedia campaigns\, sales and distribution models.  Each session features guest speakers sharing tips and secrets of the trade\, with an emphasis on real-life case studies and best practices.  Full guest speaker list to be announced. \nDocumentary Fundamentals is designed for beginning or intermediate filmmakers with projects in any stage of development or production (even the daydreaming stage!).  Sessions combine formal presentations with extensive time for in-depth discussions with participants. \nRegistrants completing all six sessions will receive a Certificate of Completion\, and will have special opportunities to promote their projects within the UnionDocs network.  Specific guests and topics are subject to change. Doors will closed at 7:15 and we will being each session promptly at 7:30pm. \nFULL SCHEDULE: \n4/27 | Planning Your Documentary – featuring producer Tom Davis (SeeThink) and attorney Karen Shatzkin\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n5/4 | Financing Your Documentary – featuring José Rodriguez (Tribeca Film Institute)\, John T. Trigonis (Indiegogo) and CPA Fred Siegel\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n5/16 | Directing and Shooting Your Documentary – featuring Oscar-winning filmmaker Ross Kauffman\, award-winning filmmaker Malika Zouhali-Worrall\, hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling. \nNOTE: This session will be hosted by AbelCine in Manhattan (609 Greenwhich Street) \n5/18 | Editing Your Documentary – featuring editor David Teague (The Brooklyn Vitagraph Company)\, Will Cox (Final Frame)\, hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling. \n6/1 | Graphics\, Music\, and Your Transmedia Campaign – featuring graphic designer Teddy Blanks (CHIPS) and musician T. Griffin\,  hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling \nNOTE: At 5pm before this session Macktez will present a special free planning bootcamp workshop as a supplement to the series\, featuring Noah Landow and Reed Payne. \n6/8 | Releasing Your Documentary – featuring programmer Dan Nuxoll (Rooftop Films)\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n  \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/05-16-2014-documentary-shooting-directing/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Labs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140518T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140518T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T090327
CREATED:20140415T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180424T181444Z
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SUMMARY:Documentary Editing
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]How can documentary directors work effectively with editors\, sound designers\, and other essential post-production talent?  How does a story emerge from a pile of footage?  Can you really “fix it in post”?  What is an online edit and can you do it yourself?  How does a good sound designer work\, and how does post-production sound enhance your documentary? \n  \nFeatured Presenters: \nDavid Teague is a documentary film editor whose work has played at Cannes\, Sundance\, Berlin\, Hot Docs\, SXSW\, Tribeca\, Full Frame\, and True/False\, amongst many others. He recently edited E-Team (Sundance 2014) and the Oscar-nominated Cutie and the Boxer (Sundance 2013). Previously\, David edited the Oscar-winning documentary Freeheld (Sundance 2007) as well as two other Oscar-nominated films (Mondays at Racine\, Sun Come Up). Other credits include the feature documentary The Iran Job\, the PBS series Constitution USA\, and the Emmy-winning Sesame Street primetime special Growing Hope Against Hunger. David has also directed and edited two award-winning documentaries: Intifada NYC (LIDF 2009) and Our House (Hot Docs 2010\, co-directed with Greg King). David has taught cinematography and editing at Downtown Community Television\, the New School\, Brooklyn College and Long Island University\, and he is the author of two best-selling guides to film editing with Final Cut Pro. David lives in Brooklyn\, NY\, with Annie Wedekind and their son Henry Wedekind. \nWill Cox started his career in the video department at Tekserve in 1995 while editing underground video features as part of nuBright Solutions\, a collective of artist/filmmakers populating the web with indie films. After teaching editing for the Ford Foundation in Africa\, he went to work at Oxygen Media\, the first network to go entirely on-air using Final Cut Pro\, as the Senior Engineer. Will co-founded Final Frame in 2001. Will has been color correcting for the past 13 years with Online/Color Correction credits on the 2010 and 2011 Oscar winning documentaries\, The Cove & Inside Job\, the acclaimed documentary Control Room (Sundance Film Festival)\, Speedo (winner at Full Frame)\, and Murderball (winner of best editor at Sundance)\, as well as numerous other documentary and scripted films. Will’s television credits include shows for MTV\, Comedy Central\, SpikeTV\, Nickelodeon\, Oxygen\, Fuse\, CourtTV\, CSTV\, The History Channel\, Lifetime\, PBS\, IFC and ESPN. \n \nPeter Levin\, known for his work on Dark Days (2000)\, The 24th Day (2004) and Let It Snow (1999)\, is a co-owner of Splash Studios in Chelsea. He splits his attention between family\, post-production\, production and ice hockey. When he is not on the ice\, he is usually found supervising post-sound\, recording sound effects or mixing films and television shows. With 20 years in the industry and\, hundreds credits to his name\, he can usually make a story sound pretty good. \n  \n  \n  \nZACHARY HEINZERLING is a film director based in Brooklyn\, New York. His debut feature\, Cutie and the Boxer is currently nominated for a 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Film. The critically acclaimed film won prizes at top film festivals around the world and was featured on many best film lists of 2013\, including that of A.O. Scott from the New York Times and Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal. The film received a field leading three 2014 Cinema Eye Honors\, for Outstanding Debut Feature\, Outstanding Original Score\, and Outstanding Visual Effects. Zachary was the winner of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival Directing Award for US Documentary. He was awarded the Charles Guggenheim Emerging Artist award at the 2013 Full Frame Film Festival. He was the recipient of the 2013 International Documentary Association’s Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award\, which recognizes the achievements of a filmmaker who has made a significant impact at the beginning of his or her career in documentary film. He was nominated for a 2014 DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary. He began his career at HBO\, where he worked on four consecutive Emmy Award-winning documentaries as a Field Producer and Cinematographer. Most recently he directed a five-part web series with Beyoncé Knowles-Carter entitled “Self-Titled” for her latest album “Beyoncé”. \nCUTIE AND THE BOXER \nA reflection on love\, sacrifice\, and the creative spirit\, this candid New York documentary explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of renowned “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara and his artist wife Noriko. As a rowdy\, confrontational young artist in Tokyo\, Ushio seemed destined for fame\, but he is met with little commercial success after he moves to New York City in 1969\, seeking international recognition. When 19-year-old Noriko moved to New York to study art\, she fell in love with Ushio—abandoning her education to become the unruly artist’s wife and assistant. Over the course of their marriage\, their roles shifted. Now 80\, Ushio still struggles to establish his artistic legacy\, while Noriko is at last being recognized for her own art—a series of drawings entitled “Cutie\,” depicting her challenging past with Ushio. Spanning four decades\, the film is a moving portrait of a couple wrestling with the eternal themes of sacrifice\, disappointment and aging\, against a background of lives dedicated to art. \nA nuts-and-bolts professional development series designed for the beginning or intermediate documentary filmmaker\, Documentary Fundamentals @ UnionDocs is six-week course culminating in a certificate of completion. Registrants can also attend individual sessions. This curriculum developed out of our experience hearing what fundamentals documentarians need to understand to plan\, produce\, and release an independent documentary today. \n\nHosted by the Cutie and the Boxer (2013) team\, Documentary Fundamentals is essential learning for the documentary filmmaker\, covering business basics\, fundraising and financing\, production and post-production strategies\, transmedia campaigns\, sales and distribution models.  Each session features guest speakers sharing tips and secrets of the trade\, with an emphasis on real-life case studies and best practices.  Full guest speaker list to be announced. \nDocumentary Fundamentals is designed for beginning or intermediate filmmakers with projects in any stage of development or production (even the daydreaming stage!).  Sessions combine formal presentations with extensive time for in-depth discussions with participants. \nRegistrants completing all six sessions will receive a Certificate of Completion\, and will have special opportunities to promote their projects within the UnionDocs network.  Specific guests and topics are subject to change. Doors will closed at 7:15 and we will being each session promptly at 7:30pm. \nFULL SCHEDULE: \n4/27 | Planning Your Documentary – featuring producer Tom Davis (SeeThink) and attorney Karen Shatzkin\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n5/4 | Financing Your Documentary – featuring José Rodriguez (Tribeca Film Institute)\, John T. Trigonis (Indiegogo) and CPA Fred Siegel\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n5/16 | Directing and Shooting Your Documentary – featuring Oscar-winning filmmaker Ross Kauffman\, award-winning filmmaker Malika Zouhali-Worrall\, hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling. \nNOTE: This session will be hosted by AbelCine in Manhattan (609 Greenwhich Street) \n5/18 | Editing Your Documentary – featuring editor David Teague\, Will Cox (Final Frame)\, and Peter Levin\, hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling. \n6/1 | Graphics\, Music\, and Your Transmedia Campaign – featuring graphic designer Teddy Blanks (CHIPS) and musician T. Griffin\,  hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling \nNOTE: At 5pm before this session Macktez will present a special free planning bootcamp workshop as a supplement to the series\, featuring Noah Landow and Reed Payne. \n6/8 | Releasing Your Documentary – featuring programmer Dan Nuxoll (Rooftop Films)\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n  \n  \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/05-18-2014-documentary-editing/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Labs
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140530T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140530T193000
DTSTAMP:20260427T090327
CREATED:20140424T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180420T214206Z
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SUMMARY:The Sochi Project
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen have been working together since 2009 to tell the story of Sochi\, Russia—site of the 2014 Winter Olympics and glamorous Russian Riviera resort on the doorstep of conflict zones Abkhazia\, North Ossetia\, Georgia\, and Chechnya. They have returned repeatedly to this region as committed practitioners of “slow journalism\,” establishing a solid foundation of research on and engagement with this small yet incredibly complicated place before it found itself in the glare of international media attention. \nHornstra’s photographic approach combines the best of documentary storytelling with contemporary portraiture\, found photographs\, and other visual elements collected over the course of their travels. Since the beginning of their collaboration\, The Sochi Project has been released via installments\, in book form and online\, each focusing on a particular facet of the story\, the geography\, the people\, and their history. \nJoin Hornstra and van Bruggen as they offer an alternative perspective and in-depth reporting on this remarkable region that sits at the combustible crossroads of war\, tourism\, and history. Publisher Lesley A. Martin of the Aperture Foundation will moderate the discussion. \n\nRob Hornstra (born in Borne\, The Netherlands\, 1975) is a photographer and self-publisher of slow-form documentary work. In addition to his work on The Sochi Project\, he is also the founder and former artistic director of FOTODOK—Space for Documentary Photography. Hornstra is represented by Flatland Gallery\, Utrecht\, The Netherlands. \nArnold Van Bruggen is a writer and filmmaker. He is the founder of the journalistic production agency Prospektor\, and a cofounder\, with Hornstra\, of The Sochi Project. \nLesley A. Martin is publisher of the Aperture Foundation book program and of The PhotoBook Review\, a biannual newsprint journal dedicated to the conversation surrounding the photobook. Her writing on photography has been published in Aperture\, FOAM\, Lay Flat\, and Ojo de Pez\, among other publications\, and she has edited over eighty books of photography. In 2011\, she launched The PhotoBook Review and co-founded the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation Book Awards\, celebrating the contribution of the book to the evolving narrative of photography.\nThe Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus will be on view at Aperture Gallery in New York from May 30 through July 10. The book is also available from Aperture Foundation. \nAperture\, a not-for-profit foundation\, connects the photo community and its audiences with the most inspiring work\, the sharpest ideas\, and with each other—in print\, in person\, and online. \nCreated in 1952 by photographers and writers as “common ground for the advancement of photography\,” Aperture today is a multi-platform publisher and center for the photo community. From its base in New York\, Aperture Foundation produces\, publishes\, and presents a program of photography projects and programs­­­­––locally\, across the United States\, and around the world.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/05-30-2014-the-sochi-project/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140531T193000
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SUMMARY:DE CVRATORIBVS. The Dialectics of Care and Confinement
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nJef Cornelis – Documenta 4 \n1968\, B&W 16mm transferred to video\, 53’40″ \nDutch\, English\, French and German spoken\, English subtitles \nWhen Documenta 4 takes place in 1968 the international art world is entangled in an authority crisis as well\, as Roger Raveel indicates: ”worn threadbare”. At the time Kassel\, with Arnold Bode as its artistic director\, saw things differently. Documenta 4 was streaked with controversy and debate. The politicization of society in the late 1960s made itself felt in Kassel – red flags and groups of people chanting slogans meant that the closeding speeches could not be held. Moreover\, Documenta 4 was going through an internal generational conflict and a debate on the fragile relationship of aesthetic judgment and democratic forms of reaching a consensus. During interviews with\, among others\, Sol Lewitt\, Joseph Beuys\, Harald Szeemann\, Allen Jones\, Christo\, Martial Raysse and Robert Rauschenberg they act the injured innocent and situate themselves on the side of the bewildered spectator. Sublime irony\, since things were not that new and innocent at all. \nIn some ways Cornelis conceptualises a way of appropriating the event\, sidestepping and questioning the definitions of exhibition makers\, but also of artists\, of an exhibition\, of contemporary art. This is possible because Cornelis takes his own medium as a subject. He ignores and questions the authoritarian position offered to him by his medium and he provokes the spectator into judging for himself. The commentary is limited. It is put into perspective and completed with accompanying interviews. In doing so Cornelis enabled a perspective which is not clouded by mystifications and mythomaniacs. \n(from Argos Center for Art & Media) \n\n  \nThe rich and impressive body of work of Jef Cornelis has yet to be evaluated and analyzed. In the period between 1963 and 1998\, he was primarily active as a director and scriptwriter for the Flemish broadcasting company (VRT) in Belgium. One of the most important aspects of Cornelis’ work is that he did not hide himself behind the camera\, or present his films as objective and essentially “true” to reality. Instead\, inspired by certain developments in the filmmaking of the 1960s\, he treated the camera as his pen\, or camera stylo\, as a way to express his opinions on the events that he filmed. Apart from being a television maker\, he was also involved in various art initiatives\, and was an active participant in the international art scene\, which gave him a unique access to this field. He has left behind several documentaries in which the art world is constructed and presented in a particular way\, reflecting his deep dissatisfaction with certain manifestations of power. Nevertheless\, after filming documenta 5 in 1972\, Cornelis decided to stop filming the “art world”. \nIn her new book DE CVRATORIBVS. The Dialectics of Care and Confinement (Atropos Press\, 2013)\, Vesna Madzoski finds two documentaries by the Flemish filmmaker Jef Cornelis to be crucial in the analysis of the history and ideology of documenta. In the lecture\, she will offer an overview of problems raised by the documentaries\, as well as point out the specificity of Cornelis’ method in filmmaking. Among other things\, we will recount the problems and changes provoked in Europe by the first arrival of the artists from the new art center of the world – New York. \n  \n \nVesna Madzoski is an independent theorist and researcher based in Amsterdam. She has a PhD from the European Graduate School\, Saas-Fee\, Switzerland. Her PhD research\, entitled “DE CVRATORIBVS. The Dialectics of Care and Confinement” focused on the history of curating\, the transformations of this practice in the past fifty years and its relationship with the political and economic systems. She has been one of the editors of Prelom\, a Belgrade-based journal for art and theory\, and since 2006 is a member of the artists’ collective Public Space With A Roof in Amsterdam. \nMore info: http://madzoski.synthasite.com. \n  \n \n\n \nThomas Zummer\, is a scholar\, artist\, curator\, who lectures and publishes on philosophy\, aesthetics\, and the history of technology. Zummer’s artworks have been exhibited worldwide\, and he has taught at Brown\, NYU\, The New School\, Transmedia programme\, Brussels\, and Tyler School of Art/Temple University. He is currently Faculty in Philosophy at the Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinare Studien/European Graduate School (EUFIS/EGS)\, Saas-Fee\, Switzerland\, Assistant Professor in the Graduate Program in Graphic/Information Design at Central Connecticut State University\, and Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Studies Division and the Digital + Media Department at RISD. Thomas Zummer holds a PhD summa cum laude in Philosophy and Media/Communications Studies\, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn\, NY. \nNova Benway is a curator\, writer and member of the organizing committee of the free education platform The Public School\, New York\, where she hosts Between Who\, a series of events exploring the intersections between pedagogy and artistic research and artists’ communities. Since 2011\, she has been on the curatorial team at The Drawing Center in New York\, where she is co-curator of closed Sessions\, a two-year program of experimental exhibitions and public programs co-organized with more than fifty local\, national and international artists. \n  \n  \nThis evening is organized in cooperation with MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow38 and made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Electronic Media and Film Presentation Funds grant program\, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes (www.NYSCA.org\, www.eARTS.org).  \nFor screening inquiries\, please contact ARGOS Centre for Art & Media.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-05-31-de-curatoribus/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140601T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140602T170000
DTSTAMP:20260427T090327
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SUMMARY:Macktez's Ultimate Planning Workshop
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\n\n\nIf you find yourself overwhelmed\, drowning in unhelpful to do lists\, befuddled by Getting Things Done\, and with an Inbox that’s anything but empty\, join us while the Team from Macktez shares their internal working methodology\, named “Working Yellow\,” used to manage over a hundred clients and projects of wide-ranging scales. \n\n\nOur Team will design and teach a class to creatives using the Macktez “Working Yellow” approach that incorporates our team-customized approach\, incorporating elements of Getting Things Done\, Zero Inbox\, Kaizen\, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People\, Checklist Manifesto\, and numerous other approaches to efficiency\, organization\, and productivity. \nTo read more about us and our Approach see http://www.macktez.com/approach/ \nFeatured Presenters: \nNoah Landow is the founder and president of Macktez. His experience in architecture\, print and interactive design\, network design and installation\, and database development provide a foundation for organizing projects and building collaborative teams. He keeps his head on straight by training in a seriously obscure form of aikijujutsu and by serving on the boards of compelling non-profits like UnionDocs. \n  \nReed Payne is a New Hampshire native\, certified yoga instructor\, and aspiring pilot which means he keeps his bearings\, balance\, and can make a fire by rubbing two sticks together. While majoring in French\, he spent many nights analyzing network traffic\, tinkering with system security\, and wrapping his head around encryption concepts. \n  \n  \nCUTIE AND THE BOXER \nA reflection on love\, sacrifice\, and the creative spirit\, this candid New York documentary explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of renowned “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara and his artist wife Noriko. As a rowdy\, confrontational young artist in Tokyo\, Ushio seemed destined for fame\, but he is met with little commercial success after he moves to New York City in 1969\, seeking international recognition. When 19-year-old Noriko moved to New York to study art\, she fell in love with Ushio—abandoning her education to become the unruly artist’s wife and assistant. Over the course of their marriage\, their roles shifted. Now 80\, Ushio still struggles to establish his artistic legacy\, while Noriko is at last being recognized for her own art—a series of drawings entitled “Cutie\,” depicting her challenging past with Ushio. Spanning four decades\, the film is a moving portrait of a couple wrestling with the eternal themes of sacrifice\, disappointment and aging\, against a background of lives dedicated to art. \n  \nA nuts-and-bolts professional development series designed for the beginning or intermediate documentary filmmaker\, Documentary Fundamentals @ UnionDocs is six-week course culminating in a certificate of completion. Registrants can also attend individual sessions. This curriculum developed out of our experience hearing what fundamentals documentarians need to understand to plan\, produce\, and release an independent documentary today. \n\nHosted by the Cutie and the Boxer (2013) team\, Documentary Fundamentals is essential learning for the documentary filmmaker\, covering business basics\, fundraising and financing\, production and post-production strategies\, transmedia campaigns\, sales and distribution models.  Each session features guest speakers sharing tips and secrets of the trade\, with an emphasis on real-life case studies and best practices.  Full guest speaker list to be announced. \nDocumentary Fundamentals is designed for beginning or intermediate filmmakers with projects in any stage of development or production (even the daydreaming stage!).  Sessions combine formal presentations with extensive time for in-depth discussions with participants. \nRegistrants completing all six sessions will receive a Certificate of Completion\, and will have special opportunities to promote their projects within the UnionDocs network.  Specific guests and topics are subject to change. Doors will closed at 7:15 and we will being each session promptly at 7:30pm. \nFULL SCHEDULE: \n4/27 | Planning Your Documentary – featuring producer Tom Davis (SeeThink) and attorney Karen Shatzkin\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n5/4 | Financing Your Documentary – featuring José Rodriguez (Tribeca Film Institute)\, John T. Trigonis (Indiegogo)  and CPA Fred Siegel\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n5/16 | Directing and Shooting Your Documentary – featuring Oscar-winning filmmaker Ross Kauffman\, award-winning filmmaker Malika Zouhali-Worrall\, hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling. \nNOTE: This session will be hosted by AbelCine in Manhattan (609 Greenwhich Street) \n5/18 | Editing Your Documentary – featuring editor David Teague (The Brooklyn Vitagraph Company)\, Will Cox (Final Frame)\, hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling. \n6/1 | Graphics\, Music\, and Your Transmedia Campaign – featuring graphic designer Teddy Blanks (CHIPS) and musician T. Griffin\,  hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling \nNOTE: At 5pm before this session Macktez will present a special free planning bootcamp workshop as a supplement to the series\, featuring Noah Landow and Reed Payne. \n6/8 | Releasing Your Documentary – featuring programmer Dan Nuxoll (Rooftop Films)\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n  \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/macktezs-ultimate-planning-workshop/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Labs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140601T193000
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SUMMARY:Documentary Graphics\, Music & Transmedia Campaigns
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]How can title design and graphics be effectively utilized in documentary? What about my approach to music? What is transmedia and why should documentary filmmakers pay attention to it?  This session will dig in to graphics and music issues that come together during post production. We will also explore broad strokes of how to plan and execute transmedia campaigns. \nFeatured Presenters: \nTeddy Blanks is co-founder of the Brooklyn graphic design studio CHIPS. He has created closeding title sequences for over 25 films. His work for documentaries includes title design for the Academy Award nominated Cutie and the Boxer\, and more comprehensive graphic treatments for Matt Wolf’s Teenage\, and Broken Heart Land\, a forthcoming doc directed by Jeremy and Randy Stulberg for PBS. \n  \n  \nT. Griffin is a songwriter\, composer and producer working in Brooklyn\, New York. Alone and with his band The Quavers he has released four critically acclaimed CDs of songs in a homespun electronic style that’s been described as ‘porch techno’. \nA prolific film composer with 30 features \, Griffin has scored films for Jesse Moss (Sundance 2014 Special Jury winner The Overnighters)\, Ross Kaufman and Katy Chevigny (E-Team\, Sundance 2014) Tristan Patterson (SXSW Grand Jury winner DragonSlayer\, 2011)\, Liza Johnson (Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight selection\, Return\, 2011)\, Marshall Lewy (California Solo\, Sundance 2012)\, Tze Chun (Children of Invention\, Sundance 2009)\, Michael Almereyda (New Orleans\, Mon Amour\, SXSW 2008)\, Kim Reed (Telluride sensation Prodigal Sons\, 2008)\, Esther B. Robinson (Berlin Teddy Award Winner\, A Walk Into The Sea\, 2007) as well as shorts for Peter Sillen and Jem Cohen\, Lance Weiler and others. He wrote original songs and a full score for avant-garde theater director Anne Bogart’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, and has created and performed live soundtrack shows for Jem Cohen\, Brent Green\, and international tours with Sam Green and the late Danny Williams’ Warhol Factory films. \nAs a producer and player he has worked with musical luminaries including Vic Chesnutt\, Patti Smith\, Tom Verlaine\, DJ/Rupture\, Mary Margaret O’Hara and members of godspeed you! black emperor\, Fugazi The Dirty Three and The Ex. Griffin was a 2008 fellow at the Sundance Institute Composer’s Lab. He has twice been nominated for CinemaEye Honors for original score\, once for Utopia in Four Movements\, and once for Dragonslayer. \n \nMarisa Jahn works at the intersection of inequality and access\, positioning interactive media as an essential tool for public engagement and social impact. Jahn is the Founder and Executive Director of REV- (as in to rev an engine)\, a nonprofit studio whose public art projects combine creativity\, bold ideas\, and sound research to address critical issues impacting low-wage workers\, immigrants\, and teens. Jahn originated El Bibliobandido (or ‘story thief’)\, an ongoing living legend built around a masked bandit who\, ravenous for stories\, roves the jungles of Honduras terrorizing little kids until they offer him stories they’ve written; Video Slink Uganda\, a project that transposes experimental videos by African diaspora video artists into the Ugandan black market; a contagious public art competition in Tajikistan for the best ten second poem juried by the Oprah of Northern Tajikistan; and a public art nanny hotline (think NPR’s car talk but for nannies) about the New York State Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. Created in collaboration with the National Domestic Workers’ Alliance\, Jahn’s latest project is the NannyVan\, a bright orange mobile design studio and sound lab that “accelerates the movement for domestic workers’ rights nationwide.”\n  \nZACHARY HEINZERLING is a film director based in Brooklyn\, New York. His debut feature\, Cutie and the Boxer is currently nominated for a 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Film. The critically acclaimed film won prizes at top film festivals around the world and was featured on many best film lists of 2013\, including that of A.O. Scott from the New York Times and Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal. The film received a field leading three 2014 Cinema Eye Honors\, for Outstanding Debut Feature\, Outstanding Original Score\, and Outstanding Visual Effects. Zachary was the winner of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival Directing Award for US Documentary. He was awarded the Charles Guggenheim Emerging Artist award at the 2013 Full Frame Film Festival. He was the recipient of the 2013 International Documentary Association’s Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award\, which recognizes the achievements of a filmmaker who has made a significant impact at the beginning of his or her career in documentary film. He was nominated for a 2014 DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary. He began his career at HBO\, where he worked on four consecutive Emmy Award-winning documentaries as a Field Producer and Cinematographer. Most recently he directed a five-part web series with Beyoncé Knowles-Carter entitled “Self-Titled” for her latest album “Beyoncé”. \nCUTIE AND THE BOXER \nA reflection on love\, sacrifice\, and the creative spirit\, this candid New York documentary explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of renowned “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara and his artist wife Noriko. As a rowdy\, confrontational young artist in Tokyo\, Ushio seemed destined for fame\, but he is met with little commercial success after he moves to New York City in 1969\, seeking international recognition. When 19-year-old Noriko moved to New York to study art\, she fell in love with Ushio—abandoning her education to become the unruly artist’s wife and assistant. Over the course of their marriage\, their roles shifted. Now 80\, Ushio still struggles to establish his artistic legacy\, while Noriko is at last being recognized for her own art—a series of drawings entitled “Cutie\,” depicting her challenging past with Ushio. Spanning four decades\, the film is a moving portrait of a couple wrestling with the eternal themes of sacrifice\, disappointment and aging\, against a background of lives dedicated to art. \nA nuts-and-bolts professional development series designed for the beginning or intermediate documentary filmmaker\, Documentary Fundamentals @ UnionDocs is six-week course culminating in a certificate of completion. Registrants can also attend individual sessions. This curriculum developed out of our experience hearing what fundamentals documentarians need to understand to plan\, produce\, and release an independent documentary today. \n\nHosted by the Cutie and the Boxer (2013) team\, Documentary Fundamentals is essential learning for the documentary filmmaker\, covering business basics\, fundraising and financing\, production and post-production strategies\, transmedia campaigns\, sales and distribution models.  Each session features guest speakers sharing tips and secrets of the trade\, with an emphasis on real-life case studies and best practices.  Full guest speaker list to be announced. \nDocumentary Fundamentals is designed for beginning or intermediate filmmakers with projects in any stage of development or production (even the daydreaming stage!).  Sessions combine formal presentations with extensive time for in-depth discussions with participants. \nRegistrants completing all six sessions will receive a Certificate of Completion\, and will have special opportunities to promote their projects within the UnionDocs network.  Specific guests and topics are subject to change. Doors will closed at 7:15 and we will being each session promptly at 7:30pm. \nFULL SCHEDULE: \n4/27 | Planning Your Documentary – featuring producer Tom Davis (SeeThink) and attorney Karen Shatzkin\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n5/4 | Financing Your Documentary – featuring José Rodriguez (Tribeca Film Institute)\, John T. Trigonis (Indiegogo) and CPA Fred Siegel\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n5/16 | Directing and Shooting Your Documentary – featuring Oscar-winning filmmaker Ross Kauffman\, award-winning filmmaker Malika Zouhali-Worrall\, hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling. \nNOTE: This session will be hosted by AbelCine in Manhattan (609 Greenwhich Street) \n5/18 | Editing Your Documentary – featuring editor David Teague (The Brooklyn Vitagraph Company)\, Will Cox (Final Frame)\, hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling. \n6/1 | Graphics\, Music\, and Your Transmedia Campaign – featuring  graphic designer Teddy Blanks (CHIPS) and musician T. Griffin hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling \nNOTE: At 5pm before this session Macktez will present a special free planning bootcamp workshop as a supplement to the series\, featuring Noah Landow and Reed Payne. \n6/8 | Releasing Your Documentary – featuring programmer Dan Nuxoll (Rooftop Films)\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n  \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/06-01-2014-documentary-graphics-music-transmedia-campaigns/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Labs
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140606T220000
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SUMMARY:Stories You Can't Tell on the Radio
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Come watch and listen as professional radio journalists tell an evening’s worth of stories\, some live\, some recorded\, along with tales\, some too silly\,  some too dark or personal\, to make their way out to audiences of millions. This evening we’ll focus on tales from backstage\, between the folds and behind the scenes – the tape\, info. and crazy bits that can’t be shared on air. This event will not be recorded so turn off your cell phones and focus on the here and now before the tellers and tales both\, slip away into the dark anonymous folds of history. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nAnn Heppermann is a Brooklyn-based\, independent radio/multimedia documentary producer and educator. Her work has aired on numerous public radio stations\, including: This American Life\, Radiolab\, Studio 360\, Marketplace and many others.  A Peabody Award-winning producer\, she also has received awards from the Associated Press\, Edward R. Murrow\, and Third Coast International Audio Festival. From 2010-11\, she was a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism fellow\, reporting on perinatal depression and pre-teen eating disorders for NPR and Ms. Magazine. In 2011\, she was named a United States Artists (USA) Fellow with Kara Oehler. Recently\, she has been a series producer for Marketplace’s Economy 4.0 series with David Brancaccio\, WQXR and Studio 360. She is also a faculty member teaching radio writing and radio drama at Sarah Lawrence College. \n \nScott Gurian reports on New Jersey’s Sandy recovery for WNYC and NJ Spotlight. Previously\, he was a producer at The Takeaway\, and he spent five years as News Director at public radio station KGOU in Norman\, Oklahoma\, where he covered everything from the Oklahoma City bombing anniversary and political wrangling at the state capitol to rattlesnake festivals and the annual prison rodeo. Scott’s work has aired on NPR\, the BBC\, and dozens of public radio stations and programs. He’s won numerous awards including a national and two regional RTNDA Edward R. Murrows. He loves going on radio adventures and hopes to do more international reporting. \n \nSally 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 teaches writing for radio at Sarah Lawrence and her stress eating food of choice is the crinkle-cut potato chip. \n  \n \nIlya Marritz is a reporter at WNYC – New York Public Radio\, covering business. He’s reported stories for NPR\, Marketplace\, and for German and Czech radio\, and recently played Young Scrooge in WQXR’s radio-play production of “A Christmas Carol.” He lives in Brooklyn and enjoys community gardening. \n  \n  \nShia Levitt has reported for NPR\, Marketplace\, KQED and numerous other public radio outlets.  She has covered stories from the US\, Africa\, Asia and the Middle East\, and has taught radio to teens in both the US and Haiti.  She recently co-taught her first Radio Rookies workshop to New York City high school students. Shia loves photography\, hiking and plotting to move to Northern California. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/03-16-2014-sally-herships-outtakes/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140607T193000
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SUMMARY:LIVING LOS SURES: PREVIEW IN THE PARK & PARTY
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nLiving Los Sures is a collaborative documentary about the Southside of Williamsburg\, Brooklyn launching fall 2014.\nIt RESTORES a film about the neighborhood that was made way back in 1984; it REFRAMES the Southside today in 30 short documentary projects; and it hopes to be a REUNION of sorts for residents across Los Sures through many events and shared stories. \nYOU CAN BE A PART OF THIS PROJECT. \n  \nTo celebrate the creation of seven new documentary projects made this year as part of the UnionDocs Collaborative Production Living Los Sures\, a special public preview will be held in Sternberg (aka Lindsay) Park on Saturday June 7th starting at 7:00pm. \n7:30pm: DJ Sebastian Diaz Aguirre @Sternberg Park \n8:30pm: Preview screening of documentaries by the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio @Sternberg Park \n10pm: Doors at UnionDocs (322 Union Ave)\, Music from DJ Rich Bologna \n10:45pm: Music by Juan Wauters\, Ashok Kondabolu\, and Rich Bologna + Installations \nMidnight – 1:30am: DJ Dapwell (Ashok Kondabolu) \n  \n  \nABOUT THE UNIONDOCS COLLABORATIVE STUDIO\nThe UnionDocs Collaborative Studio is a one year fellowships program for nonfiction media research and group production. It seeks to bring together individual talents\, voices\, and stories to create multidimensional documentaries. For the past 10 months\, fellows have been immersed in research\, idea generation\, planning\, recording\, edits\, critique\, and re-edits. Teams were formed around a set of select proposals\, which all moved through the stages of production in tandem. Through this effort\, nine new projects were created that explore stories about local neighborhood\, its community\, history and rich culture. \n2014 Projects include: \nAlvaro (Alexandra Lazarowich\, Chloe Zimmerman\, Elizabeth Warren\, Daniel Wilson) \nA meditation on memory and perseverance\, ÁLVARO follows 75-year-old South Williamsburg resident Álvaro Brandon on his daily route to feed 40 stray cats in his neighborhood. \nDivision Avenue\, 13 min. (Janna Kyllästinen\, Anne-Katrine Hansen. Alexandra Lazarowich\, Stanzi Vaubel\,John G. Larson) \nDivision Avenue is a short film about one of the most prominent yet often ignored landmarks of Los Sures\, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE). The film examines the architecture and fabric of the BQE through poetic imagery and experimental ambient sound recordings\, inviting the audience to encounter urban landscape in a unique and curious way. \nRooted/Uprooted\, 10 min. (Danya Abt\, Samantha Richardson and Elizabeth Warren) \nRooted/Uprooted is a portrait of Nelly’s\, a family-owned flower shop in South Williamsburg. Sandwiched between elevated tracks and congested streets\, this tiny oasis brings the local population together in ritual\, memory and in celebration of green things. \nThe Domino Project: An Interactive Documentary + The Gentrification Guilt Meter \n(John Larsen -Co-Producer\, Elizabeth Warren – Co-Producer\, Daniel J Wilson – Creative Director/Interactive Documentary Producer\, Joyce Wong – Creative Director/Interactive Installation Producer) \nThe DOMINO Project is an attempt to look beyond the simplistic reactionary rhetoric that often frame the discussions about neighborhood change in New York City and beyond. It aims to help foster understanding of the forces – economic\, political\, legal and social – that operate behind the scenes in the gentrification process. \nThe online interactive documentary component of the project allows the viewer to walk around an archetypal neighborhood block with buildings representing various actors in the development process. The viewer can “enter” the buildings\, where each actor in the process is able to present their story from their own point of view\, and where the viewer can also explore supporting media rich information about the selected participant. \nGentrification Guilt Meter is a self-help quiz and interactive installation that confronts our uncomfortable feelings and complicity with gentrification. \nEric Winter to Spring\, 14 min. (Danya Abt\, Joyce Wong\, Janna Kyllästinen) \nEric Winter to Spring is a glimpse into the life of Eric Martine\, a recovering drug addict and Brooklyn cab driver. \nThis Place\, 12 min. (Damon Logan\, Stanzi Vaubel) \nThis Place (short) is the first 12 minutes of a feature-length film. The film weaves together an ensemble of characters who populate the UnionDocs community. Each character explores what it means to be a documentary artist. \nDwellings\, an installation by Anne-Katrine Hansen\, Chloe Zimmerman\, and Sam Richardson \nDwellings is a roving public art installation that dwells on various experiences of “home” in the changing neighborhood of Los Sures. \n  \n  \nABOUT LIVING LOS SURES \nIn the late seventies and early eighties\, the Southside of Williamsburg was one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. Los Sures\, a documentary from 1984 by Diego Echeverria\, skillfully represents the challenges of this time; drugs\, gang violence\, crime\, abandoned real estate\, racial tension\, single parent homes\, and inadequate local resources. Echeverria’s portrait also celebrates the vitality of the largely Puerto Rican community\, showing the strength of their culture\, their creativity and determination to overcome a desperate situation. Living Los Sures is a multi-year production that partners with Echeverria to revisit his powerful film\, make it accessible online for the first time\, create a collection of companion documentary projects that update\, annotate\, challenge\, and spiral off from the original\, and activate the community to share stories around remarkable local histories and important civic issues. \n10:30pm @ UnionDocs (doors at 10)\nRich Bologna\, Juan Wauters\, Dapwell (Kondabolu Brothers) + installations\, DJs + more — $10\n  \n \nRich Bologna: Rich Bologna is\, among other things\, a sound designer\, composer\, musician and music supervisor. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nJuan Wauters: In 2000\, Alberto Wauters left Uruguay to live in a basement in Queens. Two years later he called his son\, Juan\, to join him. Juan Wauters crossed the threshold into manhood when he arrived in New York. Working at a factory\, the father and son pooled their money to bring their family \nto the borough of opportunity. With no friends to speak of\, Juan turned to music to take control of the loneliness of his isolation. Juan was inspired by his new neighborhood of Jackson Heights and delighted to find that his library card gave him access to an abundance of new music. \nAshok Kondabolu was the hypeman “Dapwell” of the now-defunct rap-group Das Racist. He is also the creator of the online interview/documentary series “Chillin’ Island” and is a DJ on the East Village Radio show of the same name. He also writes columns and reviews for online magazines Noisey and Talkhouse. His website is dapwell.com and you can find him on Twitter at @dapwell \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPanache is a North American booking agency with offices in NY\, SF and Memphis. We are a boutique agency that prioritizes each of out artists\, placing their needs first while acting as a foundation for creating a successful\, prominent and long term career as a musician in an industry that is constantly evolving. We represent artists that are passionate about their music\, and strive to match that creativity with our unique and enthusiastic approach to booking. We bridge the gap between DIY culture and the mainstream music industry through booking shows in both conventional venues as well as experimenting with unique environments to create a more enjoyable stimulating experience. \nBrooklyn Cupcake Founded by sisters Carmen Rodriguez and Gina Madera\, Brooklyn Cupcake is a story of unconditional belief and unrelenting commitment. What began as simply weekend cupcakes for the family children has become NYC’s celebrated new cupcake shop. Taking advantage of their mixed cultural background and Brooklyn upbringing\, with the help of their cousin\, Michele Caballero\, the sisters created a menu of Puerto Rican and Italian inspired cupcakes. The flavors included favorites like Flan\, Dulce de Leche\, Tres Leche\, Tiramisu\, Rainbow Cookie and Coquito. Today Brooklyn Cupcake is The Best of New York as per the NY Daily News readers. The shop is listed in the Zagat NY Dining Guide and enjoys an incredible following throughout the Tri-State area and beyond.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-06-08-living-los-sures-preview-in-the-park/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:MK2 Expanded: Another Idea of Cinema in the City
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On the occasion of MoMA’s Carte Blanche in honor of the 40th Anniversary of the founding of prominent French film group MK2\, we welcome Marin Karmitz\, founder of MK2\, and Elisha Karmitz\, director of MK2 Agency. \nMarin Karmitz will introduce his rare short NUIT NOIRE\, CALCUTTA (1964)\, and Elisha Karmitz will talk about MK2’s expanded cinema projects. Followed by a drink and snack reception courtesy of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. \nFollowing their infamous slogan “Another idea of cinema”\, MK2 exhibition arm has focused in the last four decades in bringing cinema in neglected areas of Paris with the creation of arthouse theaters. Coming from a reflection on urbanism and the role of film theatres in the city\, they worked with various architects\, designers and artists to revitalize some outlying neighborhoods. \nDeveloping the idea of expanded cinema\, MK2 Agency has been very active in creating live events in unusual places (e.g. Cinema Paradiso\, a giant drive-in at the Grand Palais in 2013) and ephemeral theaters in order to create unique events and challenge the audiences on their relationships with film theatres. \n  \n  \n \nNUIT NOIRE\, CALCUTTA: \nA rare avant-garde short that Marin Karmitz directed at age 26\, starring Maurice Garrel\, written by Marguerite Duras and shot by Willy Kurant\, NUIT NOIRE\, CALCUTTA is a haunting tale about an alcoholic novelist facing a crippling case of writer’s block. \nThe short had a major importance for Duras who will later use that story for her novel The Vice-Consul. \n  \n  \n Marin Karmitz\, the producer\, distributor\, exhibitor and founder of MK2\, has during the last 40 years produced over 100 films and distributed close to 350 films. Jean-Luc Godard\, Alain Resnais\, Claude Chabrol\, Gus Van Sant\, Jonathan Nossiter\, Ken Loach\, Jacques Doillon\, Pavel Lounguine\, Hong Sang Soo\, Michael Haneke\, Raphaël Nadjari\, Olivier Assayas. The films under his banner have been graced with an impressive list of awards: three Golden Palms at Cannes\, three Golden Lions from the Venice Film Festival\, a Golden Bear from the Berlin Film Festival\, three Oscar nominations\, 25 César Awards and over one hundred international film festival awards. Karmitz’s work has received many official tributes since the 1980s\, by institutions such as the Cinémathèque Française\, the Pompidou Centre\, MoMA\, and the film heritage centres in Tel Aviv\, Madrid\, Munich and Boulogne. Karmitz has also received many awards worldwide for his career as a producer. Strongly involved in contemporary art\, Karmitz curated in 2009 the exhibition Silences at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg\, which was restaged later that year at the Berardo Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Lisbon. At the Rencontres d’Arles in 2010\, he presented his collection of more than two hundred photographic works for the first time. \n–Photo credit Benoït Linero \nElisha Karmitz Born in Paris in 1985\, Elisha Karmitz joined MK2 in 2006 as the director of publication and chief editor of the magazine TROIS COULEURS. In 2008\, he became the director of MK2 MULTIMEDIA. In 2012\, he launched MK2 Agency\, specialized in audiovisuel communication\, events and brand content. One of the most successful events he organized in Paris with MK2 Agency was Cinema Paradiso\, the largest drive-in ever organized in a city capital\, at the Grand Palais in June 2013\, attracting 80\,000 visitors.  \n  \nDan Nuxoll is the Program Director of Rooftop Films and has been working with the organization since 1998. He has curated events all across North America and Europe and has managed partnerships with the Sundance Film Festival\, Tribeca Film Festival\, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\, BAM Cinematek\, MoMA\, and dozens of acclaimed cultural institutions. He is currently co-directing a documentary about a mysterious woman who has been running scandal-plagued film festivals for decades. \n  \nMK2 is the first independent group of the French cinema industry (production\, international & domestic distribution\, exhibition\, DVD publishing)\, founded in 1974. More than 400 titles make up the MK2 library\, which includes famous titles by international directors like David Lynch\, Krzysztof Kieslowski\, Michael Haneke or Abbas Kiarostami as well as films by the best French authors: Claude Chabrol\, Alain Resnais\, François Truffaut\, Jacques Doillon. \nMK2 also handles the rights of recent films by famous talents (Gus Van Sant) or emerging directors such as Gela Babluani that won prices in prestigious festivals (Cannes\, Venice\, Sundance). In addition to that\, MK2 restores in HD whole collections of classic films (Charles Chaplin\, Buster Keaton \, Stan Laurel\, H. Lloyd). \nFor more information about the celebrations of MK2’s 40th Anniversary in New York: \nMoMA Carte Blanche to MK2 – June 5-23 \nTribute to Marin Karmitz at FIAF – Friday\, June 6: \nhttp://www.fiaf.org/events/spring2014/2014-06-06-karmitz.shtml \nConversation with Marin Karmitz and ICP Chief Curator Brian Willis at Invisible Dog – Monday\, June 9th: \nhttp://theinvisibledog.org/talk-with-marin-karmitz/ \nThis event is co-presented with FI:AF  \n \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-06-08-mk2-expanded/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:How to Release Your Documentary
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]How can you find and build audiences for your film?  How do you know if your film is best suited for theatrical\, broadcast\, or both?  How do digital platforms affect “traditional” models of distribution and release?  How can you best utilize your film festival campaign?  What does a sales agent do and how do I get one? Another can’t-miss session! \n  \n  \nFeatured guests: \nRyan Kampe is the founder and president of  Visit Films. Prior to founding Visit\, Ryan spent a number of years in International Distribution at Focus Features. With Visit Films\, he has been responsible for the worldwide sales and development of a number of important American independent and international films that have premiered in festivals such as Cannes\, Sundance\, Berlin\, and Toronto from filmmakers as diverse as Harmonie Korine\, Werner Herzog\, the Duplass Brothers\, Valérie Donzelli\, Joe Swanberg and David Robert Mitchell. Ryan speaks on numerous panels each year and has served on a number of film festival juries while logging over 200\,000 air miles flown annually. He is as an avid soccer enthusiast and graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul\, MN. \nDan Nuxoll is the Program Director of Rooftop Films and has been working with the organization since 1998. He has curated events all across North America and Europe and has managed partnerships with the Sundance Film Festival\, Tribeca Film Festival\, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\, BAM Cinematek\, MoMA\, and dozens of acclaimed cultural institutions. He is currently co-directing a documentary about a mysterious woman who has been running scandal-plagued film festivals for decades. \n  \n \nGraham Swindoll is a film distributor and producer based in Brooklyn\, NY. He works in the theatrical department at The Cinema Guild\, where he has handled the national theatrical releases of such films as Steve James’ The Interrupters\, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel’s Leviathan\, and Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours. His work as a trailer editor has been seen in theaters across the country and featured in the New York Times. He is currently in development on his first feature film as producer. \n  \nSIERRA PETTENGILL is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. Town Hall\, her directorial debut\, will broadcast on PBS’ America ReFramed on April 1\, 2014. She is the producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary Cutie and the Boxer\, and the archival producer of Matt Wolf’s Teenage (Tribeca ‘13) and Ross Kauffman & Katy Chevigny’s E-Team (Sundance ’14). For PBS\, she was the associate producer of the Emmy-nominated Walt Whitman\, as well as the Peabody Award-winning Triangle Fire. She was also the associate producer of HBO’s Wartorn: 1861 – 2010\, produced by James Gandolfini\, and Nick Bentgen’s Northern Light. \n  \nCUTIE AND THE BOXER \nA reflection on love\, sacrifice\, and the creative spirit\, this candid New York documentary explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of renowned “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara and his artist wife Noriko. As a rowdy\, confrontational young artist in Tokyo\, Ushio seemed destined for fame\, but he is met with little commercial success after he moves to New York City in 1969\, seeking international recognition. When 19-year-old Noriko moved to New York to study art\, she fell in love with Ushio—abandoning her education to become the unruly artist’s wife and assistant. Over the course of their marriage\, their roles shifted. Now 80\, Ushio still struggles to establish his artistic legacy\, while Noriko is at last being recognized for her own art—a series of drawings entitled “Cutie\,” depicting her challenging past with Ushio. Spanning four decades\, the film is a moving portrait of a couple wrestling with the eternal themes of sacrifice\, disappointment and aging\, against a background of lives dedicated to art. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nA nuts-and-bolts professional development series designed for the beginning or intermediate documentary filmmaker\, Documentary Fundamentals @ UnionDocs is six-week course culminating in a certificate of completion. Registrants can also attend individual sessions. This curriculum developed out of our experience hearing what fundamentals documentarians need to understand to plan\, produce\, and release an independent documentary today. \n\nHosted by the Cutie and the Boxer (2013) team\, Documentary Fundamentals is essential learning for the documentary filmmaker\, covering business basics\, fundraising and financing\, production and post-production strategies\, transmedia campaigns\, sales and distribution models.  Each session features guest speakers sharing tips and secrets of the trade\, with an emphasis on real-life case studies and best practices.  Full guest speaker list to be announced. \nDocumentary Fundamentals is designed for beginning or intermediate filmmakers with projects in any stage of development or production (even the daydreaming stage!).  Sessions combine formal presentations with extensive time for in-depth discussions with participants. \nRegistrants completing all six sessions will receive a Certificate of Completion\, and will have special opportunities to promote their projects within the UnionDocs network.  Specific guests and topics are subject to change. Doors will closed at 7:15 and we will being each session promptly at 7:30pm. \nFULL SCHEDULE: \n4/27 | Planning Your Documentary – featuring producer Tom Davis (SeeThink) and attorney Karen Shatzkin\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n5/4 | Financing Your Documentary – featuring José Rodriguez (Tribeca Film Institute)\, John T. Trigonis (Indiegogo) and CPA Fred Siegel\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n5/16 | Directing and Shooting Your Documentary – featuring Oscar-winning filmmaker Ross Kauffman\, hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling. \nNOTE: This session will be hosted by AbelCine in Manhattan (609 Greenwhich Street) \n5/18 | Editing Your Documentary – featuring editor David Teague (The Brooklyn Vitagraph Company)\, hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling. \n6/1 | Graphics\, Music\, and Your Transmedia Campaign – featuring graphic designer Teddy Blanks (CHIPS) and musician T. Griffin\,  hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling \nNOTE: At 5pm before this session Macktez will present a special free planning bootcamp workshop as a supplement to the series\, featuring Noah Landow and Reed Payne. \n6/8 | Releasing Your Documentary – featuring programmer Dan Nuxoll (Rooftop Films)\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n  \n  \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/06-08-2014-release-documentary/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Labs
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SUMMARY:NYFVC Graduating Film Student Mixer
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nThe NYFVC invites graduating film students to our first annual Graduating Filmmakers’ Mixer at UnionDocs!\nGraduating from college marks the beginning of a new chapter in a young filmmaker’s career. While this new chapter is exciting\, it can also be quite daunting without immediate access to school resources. Come mingle with each other and forge connections while also meeting members of the oldest film non profit in NY\, the NYFVC whose members represent EAI\, Screen Slate\, Janus Films\, SVA\, Maysles Films and more. Forge connections and talk shop over drinks with established members of the New York film community and kick start your post-grad film career! In the spirit of the NYFVC’s mission to connect the wider film communities in NY\, this event is FREE for students — just bring your ID. Attendees will be given access to our online resource guide for New York-based filmmakers with helpful tips on things from equipment rentals to residencies and labs\, public access stations to microcinemas. Once again\, this event is FREE for NYFVC members and students with any school ID. (NYFVC Members please RSVP to nyfvcrsvp@gmail.com) \nThe New York Film/Video Council is New York’s oldest continuously operating non-profit serving the independent film\, video and electronic arts community. For over 70 years\, we’ve been a haven for lively discussions\, panels and screenings. Founded in the 1940s\, the Council was one of the only film organizations operating in New York. Now\, in a rich sea of film and media organizations\, the Council is unique in drawing together members for conversation across the breadth of our community. Our monthly programming is FREE with an annual membership\, $40 individual\, $20 students\, and $85 institutions (three members). Find us online at http://www.nyfvc.org/.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-06-12-nyfvc-graduating-film-student-mixer/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:The Traffic of Illusions
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nUsing photography\, writing and moving pictures\, Jean-Christian Bourcart explores what constitutes an image: a significant surface that questions our relationship to ourselves\, to society\, to history\, to reality. There is often an element of transgression in his work\, as he invades personal and private spaces with his camera. From one project to the other\, he is playing with layers of meanings to investigate how representation helps us understand the raw nature of the things without reason. \nThrough his carer\, he collected unsold wedding pictures\, photographed with a hidden camera in brothels\, swinging and S&M cubs\, photographed New Yorkers stuck in traffic jams\, projected pictures of Iraqi victims on American houses\, and documented the most dangerous city in the USA. He also directed two fiction feature movies and a dozen of videos and five books about his work have been published. \nJean-Christian Bourcart grew up in France and has been living in New York since 1997. He has been the recipient of the Prix Niepce\, the Prix Nadar\, the prix Gilles Dusein\, the World Press Award\, and the Prix du Jeu de Paume. His work has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art\, the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Geneva\, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie\, and the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain. He is represented by Galerie VU’ in Paris and by Banks Gallery in Shanghai. \n  \n  \nBrooklyn-based filmmaker and video artist Pawel Wojtasik (b. Lodz\, Poland) lived in Tunisia before immigrating to the US. He received his MFA in painting from Yale in 1996. Subsequently\, he spent two years living at Dai Bosatsu Zendo\, a Buddhist monastery. Pawel 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. His film The Aquarium dealt with the destruction of the oceans; Below Sea Level (2009)\, with sound by Stephen Vitiello\, was a 360° immersive installation on the theme of post-Katrina New Orleans\, as was Next Atlantis (with music by Sebastian Currier\, 2010). More recently\, Single Stream (2013-14)\, a collaboration with Toby Lee and Ernst Karel\, tackled the problem of waste. Pawel’s work has been shown at venues such as PS1/MoMA\, The Whitney Museum\, The Museum of the Moving Image and The Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid\, and festivals such as Berlinale\, Ann Arbor and the New York Film Festival. His short film Pigs won the Grand Prize at the Hong Kong International Film Festival in 2011. Pawel is currently editing The End and the Means\, a feature-length film documenting workers of Varanasi\, India. Photo by Pat Mazzera. \n  \n Nan Goldin began photographing at the age of 15 and at the age of 19 had her first exhibition of black and white photographs. She received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Tufts University\, Boston\, in 1977. In 1978 she moved to New York where she continued to document her “extended family”. These photographs became the subject of her slide shows and Goldin’s first book\, “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency”. It was groundbreaking work\, as she was the first woman to use photography to present the intimate details of her personal life as a public work of art\, and inspired a new generation of artists. In 1985 her work was included in the Biennial of the Whitney Museum of American Art\, and gained international renown. In 1991 she moved to Berlin\, Germany on a DAAD grant and continued to live there until 1994. She has participated in many artistic collaborations\, including the books “Vakat” (1993) with poet Joachim Sartorious\, “Tokyo Love” with Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki\, and “A Double Life” with her old friend David Armstrong (both published in 1994). In 1993\, her seminal work “The Other Side\,” named after the Boston nightclub where she spent her early years\, was published by Scalo. Three years later\, in 1996\, a major retrospective exhibition of her work\, “I’ll be Your Mirror\,” closeded at the Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, and toured to museums in Europe. That same year the documentary “I’ll be Your Mirror” was awarded a Teddy Bear Award for Best Essay at the Berlin Film Festival. Goldin made the film in collaboration with Edmund Coulthard. In 1997 Goldin went back to Naples and was inspired to make new pictures dedicated to the memory of her friends Cookie Mueller\, Daniele and Vittorio Scarpati\, and thus in 1997 her book “Ten Years After” was published. In 2000 she moved to Paris and in 2001 a second retrospective\, “Le Feu Follet\,” was held at the Centre Georges Pompidou\, Paris and it\, too\, toured internationally under the title “The Devil’s Playground” to institutions such as the Whitechapel Art Gallery\, London\, the Reina Sofia\, Madrid\, Fundação de Serralves\, Porto\, Castello di Rivoli\, Turin and Ujazdowski Castle\, Warsaw. Her film “Sisters Saints and Sibyls” at the Festival d’Automne in 2004 drew the largest attendance ever at the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière. This piece\, a combination of film and still images projected on three screens\, is a story of three women trapped in a male hierarchy. It pays homage to her sister Barbara\, whose rebellion and suicide have so deeply marked her life and work. In 2006\, Goldin was awarded the prestigious “Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres” by the government of France in recognition for her significant contribution to the arts. In 2007\, Goldin received the Hassleblad Foundation International Award in Photography\, coinciding with the publication of a book\, “The Beautiful Smile”\, and an exhibition that traveled internationally. Also that year she was included in the group show “Airs de Paris” at Centre Pompidou. In 2009 Goldin was the guest curator at Recontres d’Arles festival for their 40th anniversary\, she invited twelve photographers to participate in the exhibition\, “Ça me touché”. Goldin’s most recent slide show “Scopophilia” was created especially for the Musée du Louvre and was exhibited at the end of 2010. \nCurrently she works and lives both in Paris and New York. \nRockaway Brewing Company owners Ethan and Marcus started as homebrewers in Far Rockaway and now brew their beer out of Long Island City\, NY. The brewery specializes in handcrafted malt-forward ales which are all brewed onsite in what is the first beer brewery to closed in Queens since Prohibition.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-06-13-the-traffic-of-illusions/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:Bridge High + Short Circuit
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Bridge High  \n10min / 1975 / USA / English / 16mm  \nPassage across a suspension bridge\, moving from the country to the city\, a half minute trip ­ expanded. Choreographed cables\, girders and arches. Directed by Manfred Kirchheimer & presented by the Cinema Conservancy Screening Series. \n   \n   \n \nShort Circuit \n45min / 1973 / USA / English / 16mm  \nIn his apartment on the corner of 101st Street and Broadway\, a documentary filmmaker begins to question his interactions to the white family and black workers he shares his daily existence with. Staring out his window he begins to drift and fantasize a parallel life\, which turns into a complex sound and image montage of street photography depicting a long­since vanquished Upper West Side. Full of doubt\, a lifelong city resident looks at his liberalism and doesn’t like what he sees. Constructed reality and documentary fiction\, an unclassifiable masterpiece of ideas and technique that by all rights should be considered a landmark\, had it not been virtually impossible to see. Directed by Manfred Kirchheimer & presented by the Cinema Conservancy Screening Series with a Q&A with Kirchheimer and Jacob Perlin from the Cinema Conservancy Screening Series to follow the screening. \n  \n  \n  \nManfred (Manny) Kirchheimer is an independent filmmaker who has won awards here and abroad for such films as Art Is . . .The Permanent Revolution\, SprayMasters\, Tall\, We Were So Beloved\, Stations of the Elevated\, Bridge High\, Short Circuit\, Claw\, Leroy Douglas\, Haiku\, and Colossus on the River. \nKirchheimer has been producing and directing documentaries since 1965 with special emphasis on social issues\, the built environment\, art\, and nature. His films have been shown around the world in theaters\, on television and at festivals including New York\, London\, Berlin\, Edinburgh\, Venice\, Melbourne\, Sydney\, Leipzig\, Mannheim\, Max Ophüls Preis (Saarbrücken)\, Gothenburg\, Jerusalem\, Montreal\, and Athens\, as well as the Festival dei Popoli in Florence\, Cinema du Reel in Paris \, Rhythm of the Line (Berlin)\, and the Kennedy Center. Among the many museums that have showcased his work are the Museum of Modern Art\, Art Institute of Chicago\, Metropolitan Museum of Art\, The Whitney Museum of American Art\, The Jewish Museum\, Boston Museum of Fine Arts\, Munich Filmmuseum\, and the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. \nRetrospectives of Kirchheimer’s films have taken place at the Athens International Film Festival in Ohio\, Sinking Creek Film Festival in Nashville\, and at the Filmhaus in Saarbrücken\, Germany. Kirchheimer teaches film at the School of Visual Arts in New York\, lectures frequently at schools and universities\, and makes films whenever he can raise the money. His latest film\, Canners\, is about street people who collect cans and bottles for a living\, \nKirchheimer is listed in Who’s Who in Entertainment\, Who’s Who in the East\, and The Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. \nCurator Jacob Perlin is currently Director of Cinema Conservancy\, a non-profit film distribution\, production and consultation organization for American Independent Cinema. Founder The Film Desk. Former Associate Film Curator at BAMcinematek. Co-programmer of Jean-Luc Godard retrospective at 2013 New York Film Festival. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:When I Walk
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]85 min / 2013 / USA and Canada / English \nWhen I Walk  \nDirected by Jason DaSilva  \npresented by POV  \nJason DaSilva was 25 years old and a rising independent filmmaker when a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis changed everything — and inspired him to make another film. When I Walk is candid and brave chronicle of one young man’s struggle to adapt to the harsh realities of M.S. while holding onto his personal and creative life. With his body growing weaker\, DaSilva’s spirits\, and his film\, get a boost from his mother’s tough love and the support of Alice Cook\, who becomes his wife and filmmaking partner. The result is a life-affirming documentary filled with unexpected moments of joy and humor. \nOfficial Selection of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. \n  \n\n \n\n\n\n\nDirector Jason DaSilva has been a prolific filmmaker for the past 10 years. He has directed four short films (OLIVIA’S PUZZLE\, A SONG FOR DANIEL\, TWINS OF MANKALA\, and FIRST STEPS) and two feature-length documentary films (LEST WE FORGET and WHEN I WALK). Many of his films have won awards; OLIVIA’S PUZZLE premiered at the 2003 Sundance Festival and qualified for an Academy Award. Three of his films have had national broadcasts on PBS\, HBO\, and CBC. He also produced Shocking and Awful\, a film installation on the anti-Iraq war movement\, exhibited at the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Each one of these works advanced Jason’s objective to give voice to those on the periphery of society. In 2006 Jason took a short break from filmmaking to earn his MFA in Applied Media Arts from Emily Carr University. \nHe recently produced and directed an Op-Doc (opinion documentary) for the New York Times called ‘The Long Wait\,’ published in January 2013. DaSilva’s latest film\, WHEN I WALK\, was an Official Selection of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and won Best Canadian Feature at HotDocs 2013. Following the film’s theatrical release this fall\, it will air on POV on PBS in 2014. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn\, New York. For more information about Jason DaSilva\, read his blog here. \nYael Melamede is a co-founder of SALTY Features – an independent production company based in NYC whose goal is to create media that is vital and enhances the world\, like salt. Melamede’s producer credits include: the documentary film INOCENTE\, directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine; BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN\, written and directed by John Krasinski\, based on the book by David Foster Wallace; THE INNER LIFE OF MARTIN FROST\, written and directed by Paul Auster; and MY ARCHITECT\, directed by Nathaniel Kahn and nominated for an Academy Award in 2004. Melamede was trained and worked as an architect before becoming a filmmaker. \n  \nAubrey Gallegos is the Community Engagement & Education manager at PBS’s POV. Aubrey and her team work with public television stations\, community organizations and educators to present screenings of POV films nationwide\, and develop and distribute accompanying resources such as discussion guides and lesson plans. Prior to joining POV\, Aubrey worked as an environmental educator and deckhand aboard historic tall ships\, including the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater\, co-founded by Pete Seeger. She has also worked as an event manager at UnionDocs and as a production assistant on a number of independent film and theater productions. Aubrey graduated from Whitman College with bachelor’s degree in Rhetoric and Film Studies. \n\n  \n  \n  \nProduced by American Documentary\, Inc. and beginning its 27th season on PBS in 2014\, the award-winning POV series is the longest-running showcase on American television to feature the work of today’s best independent documentary filmmakers. Airing June through September with primetime specials during the year\, POV has brought more than 365 acclaimed documentaries to millions nationwide. POV films have won every major film and broadcasting award\, including 32 Emmys\, 15 George Foster Peabody Awards\, 10 Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards\, three Academy Awardsand the Prix Italia.  Since 1988\, POV has pioneered the art of presentation and outreach using independent nonfiction media to build new communities in conversation about today’s most pressing social issues. Visit www.pbs.org/pov.     \n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Grit & Grind + Kate Bornstein
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Grit & Grind + Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger \nTotal Run time: 80min / 2014 / USA / Digital video \nGrit & Grind (US Premiere) presented by DCTV \nDirected by Felix Endara and Sasha Wortzel \n10min / 2014 / USA / English \nGrit & Grind is a short documentary about the Clit Club\, an edgy lesbian party set in New York City’s Meatpacking District in the 1990s\, as this large metropolis struggled with the AIDS epidemic. The film acts as a poly­vocal recollection of the sexually charged energy produced by this intergenerational\, cross­racial\, mixed class venue? and serves as a record of a vibrant neighborhood before it became home to homogeneous trendy boutiques and luxury hotels. \n \nKate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger (NY Premiere) presented by DCTV\nDirected by Sam Feder\n70min / 2014 / USA / English\n\n\n  \nKate Bornstein Is A Queer and Pleasant Danger captures the many facets of a queer hero and pioneering gender outlaw. Whether she is charming an enraptured audience on her latest book tour\, tweeting to her 20 thousand followers from her home office\, or cuddling with her puggle? this documentary portrait highlights Kate’s style\, wicked wit\, and astonishing candor. \n\n\n To view the trailer click here. \n  \n  \nFelix Endara Born in Ecuador\, Felix Endara is a New York-based independent filmmaker and curator whose films have screened at festivals including Berlin\, Frameline\, Outfest\, and Mill Valley. From 2008 to 2012\, he programmed Arts Engine’s documentary screening series DocuClub\, which he toured to Mexico City and Silver Spring\, Maryland. In 2010\, he was a fellow at the IFP Documentary Finishing Lab as producer for Wildness\, which premiered at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in February 2012\, and was an official selection at SXSW later that year. Grit & Grind\, his most recent short film\, had its debut at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\nSasha Wortzel is a filmmaker\, media artist\, and educator based in Brooklyn\, NY\, working in video\, installation\, sound\, and performance. Her experimental and documentary films explore space in relation to gender\, sexuality\, memorial\, and archive. In her interactive installations\, analogue objects are brought to life with physical computing and programming. She produces the radio program\, Romantic Friendship\, a thematic exploration of art\, culture\, and politics through a queer\, feminist lens She has recently presented work at the Berlin International Film Festival\, Tribeca Interactive\, Guggenheim Lab\, A.I.R. Gallery\, and the Leslie Lohman Museum. She is a recipient of the Robert Rauschenberg/Big Arts award and a 2012-2013 Queer/Art/Mentorship Fellow. She is currently directing Star People are Beautiful People\, a hybrid feature about the late transgender activists\, Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson of STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries). \n Sam Feder’s (www.samfeder.com) directorial debut\, the award-winning feature\, Boy I Am\, is cited as one of the 10-Must See Gender Documentaries. Sam’s work can be seen internationally at film festivals\, universities and colleges\, museums\, and libraries. They have received grants\, fellowships and residencies from: The Jerome Foundation\, the RFA Excellence in Filmmaking\, Crossroads Foundation\, Funding Exchange\, Astraea Foundation for Social Justice\, and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In 2013\, Sam was awarded a Yaddo Artist Residency\, and a MacDowell Colony Fellow Residency. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nFounded in 1972\, DCTV is an established media arts resource for New York City’s independent filmmaking community\, providing affordable workshops\, production equipment rentals\, post-production facilities\, a signature screening and event series\, renowned youth programming\, and more – all under the same roof as its award-winning documentary production house. DCTV is also the soon-to-be home of the first US documentary-only cinema![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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