What we talk about when we talk about editing. Renowned editor Jonathan Oppenheim (Paris is Burning, Arguing the World, Sister Helen, and the upcoming Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner) screened and discussed the ways in which he worked with director Laura Poitras to create a framework and context for the post 9/11 film The Oath. Oppenheim’s psychological approach to shaping character in documentary has won him a Peabody, an Oscar nomination and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize.
Doc Talk with Su Friedrich — Gut Renovation
“I think you have to start at home,” says Su Friedrich about her avant-garde body of work in which the personal becomes political and universal. Continue reading “Doc Talk with Su Friedrich — Gut Renovation”
Doc Talk: Debra Zimmerrman on Distribution – How to Promote Your Film? (2013)
Debra Zimmerman from Women Make Movies joined us for a conversation on maximizing film’s outreach—eg. getting into the right film festivals, finding a distributor, getting your work broadcast—in the ever shifting landscape of indie media marketing and distribution. Since 1983, Debra Zimmerman has been the Executive Director of Women Make Movies, a non-profit NY-based organization that supports women filmmakers.
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Doc Talk with Jonathan Oppenheim – On Editing
What we talk about when we talk about editing. Renowned editor Jonathan Oppenheim (Paris is Burning, Arguing the World, Sister Helen, and the upcoming Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner) screened and discussed the ways in which he worked with director Laura Poitras to create a framework and context for the post 9/11 film The Oath. Oppenheim’s psychological approach to shaping character in documentary has won him a Peabody, an Oscar nomination and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize.
Doc Talk: Julia Loktev – Moment of Impact- (Feb. 13, 2013)
Julia Loktev, director of The Loneliest Planet, on many critics’ ‘best of 2012’ film lists, made her remarkable debut with the documentary Moment of Impact, for which she won the Directing Award at Sundance in 1998. Shot in 16mm black and white, the film is a stark portrayal of Loktev’s parents after a freak accident incapacitated her father. The rigor of mundane quotidian life, redolent of Chantal Akerman’s iconic Jeanne Dielman, powers the film’s intimate non-fiction family drama.
Doc Talk: Ken Ross and Louis V. Galdieri -1913 Massacre, Filming History- (21, Dec. 2012)
How two indie filmmakers discovered the origins of the Woody Guthrie song ‘1913 MASSACRE’ in the form of a ‘living history’ documentary.
With co-directors Ken Ross and Louis V. Galdieri.
More information about the film: http://1913massacre.com
Doc Talk: Tony De Nonno -Art of the Short Doc- (Nov. 26, 2012)
The art of the short documentary is at the heart of TONY DE NONNO’S lifelong body of work. He discusses his sense of visceral and formal aesthetics.
DOC TALK: Karen Shatzkin (Nov. 12, 2012)
Doc Talk – November 12, 2012
Indie Layer – Karen Shatzkin clarifies the documentary practice of ‘fair use’ and other doc legalities. A highly regarded indie lawyer and long-time friend to the Doc Studies program, Shatzkin offers invaluable perspective on the vast terrain of legal rights and wrongs for documentary producers. Continue reading “DOC TALK: Karen Shatzkin (Nov. 12, 2012)”
The New School Doc Studies 