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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Two graduates, Erin Davis from Doc Studies, and Mark Nickolas from the MA in Media Studies, will screen work in major festivals this week. A third, Doc Studies alum Ivana Todorovic, will be featured with her doc ‘A Harlem Mother’ in Wednesday’s New York Times (front page, Metro section). The films of both Doc Studies alums originated in the Doc Studies certificate program. Also from Doc Studies, is Mark Nickolas’ cinematographer Oscar Frasser.
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This film portrait follows 19-year-old David Fasanya, an accomplished performance poet, as he ages out of his teen poetry organization and navigates the uncertain terrain between adolescence and adulthood.
5 Pointz, Queens is the grandest cathedral ever built to hip hop — an internationally celebrated graffiti center, recently erased by city rezoning and property development.
In early May, Doc Studies graduate Anders Birch begins shooting a television feature doc in the U.S. for Denmark’s public broadcaster DR1. Along with Danish journalist Jakob Volver, Anders will shoot, direct and produce a 60-minute film on a little-known but long-established Danish village in the heart of the American midwest. Continue reading “Anders Birch, Doc Studies Alum, begins Midwest Shoot for Denmark’s DR1 Television”
What comes to mind when you think of telephone hotlines? Suicide? Sex? Ms. Cleo? He-Man? Hulk Hogan? Teen party lines? Yes, those are a few, but hotlines are everywhere and millions of calls are made to them each week. Continue reading “Doc Studies Alum Lauren Belfer is the producer of HOTLINE”
Anders Birch, a graduate of the 2011 Doc Studies program, co-directed with Didde Einif A Leaf falls to the Sky, a 37-minute documentary on writer Knud Romer during the aftermath of his father’s end-of-life experience. Continue reading “Doc studies alum, Anders Birch — Nominated for Best Doc Short by the Robert Prize (Denmark’s Oscars)”
The New School Doc Studies 