12th Annual Documentary Film Festival
The future documentary filmmakers are currently on their first semester of The Documentary Studies Certificate Program at The New School, in New York City. Meet the students who will be screening their work at the annual public film festival: Truth be Told, by the end of Spring 2018:
Three evenings of original documentary shorts
Tuesday, May 23 through Thursday, May 25 at 7:00 p.m.
The Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011
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Introducing The New School’s Documentary Studies Class of 2017. The class has been busy whizzing through their first semester at The New School’s Documentary Studies Program at the heart of New York City. Meet the class who are each presently working on a thesis film project for spring 2017: Continue reading “Meet The Doc Studies Class of 2017”
Päivi Kankaro is a Finnish graduate of the Doc Studies program, class of 2015. Since graduation, she has been working as a video producer and project manager at Kollabora, a DIY fashion startup. In February, with her friend Nora Abousteit, she also opened CraftJam, a Union Square craft workshop recently profiled in The New York Post.
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“There is a middle ground in the documentary terrain: taking two (contrasting) impulses – the rigorously journalistic and the lyrically experimental – and bringing them together.”