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March 10, 2021April 15, 2021 Doc Studies DOC TALKS, Events

DOC TALK (ONLINE): The Cats of Mirikitani – Screening and Q&A with Linda Hattendorf (Director/Editor)

“A fascinating, absorbing and instructive tale, full of delayed revelations and subtle pleasures.“
–Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader

“A profoundly gripping film with a cumulative impact that may well wipe you out.”
–Bilge Ebri, New York Magazine

The Cats of Mirikitani began as a portrait of Jimmy Mirikitani, a homeless Japanese-American street artist living in New York City, but then it morphed into a stunning personal story of an unlikely relationship that confronted one of America’s long-standing prejudices and initiated a healing process catalyzed by the events of 9/11. This film was Linda Hattendorf’s directorial debut, and she worked closely with editor Keiko Deguchi to structure a film in which she reluctantly became a character. Cats premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2006 where it won the Audience Award. The film was later broadcast on the PBS series “Independent Lens,” toured theatrically around the globe, and was invited to over 100 film festivals.

AWARDS: Best Picture Japanese Eyes, Tokyo International Film Festival; Best Documentary, Durban International Film Festival; Norwegian Peace Film Award, Tromso International Film Festival, among over 30 others.

Linda Hattendorf is much in demand as an editor today, and her work has been broadcast on PBS, A&E, TCM, and The Sundance Channel, and screened in various theatrical venues and film festivals. She has collaborated with direct cinema master Barbara Kopple and did research for PBS’s house documentarian Ken Burns. She served as cameraperson on William Greaves’ celebrated Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take 2 ½ and editor for his PBS special Ralph J. Bunche: An American Odyssey. She is currently editing Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story about the legendary photojournalist of Asian American issues who died recently of covid-19. She has an MA in Media Studies from the New School and briefly taught editing for the DocStudies Certificate.

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February 12, 2021March 11, 2021 Doc Studies DOC TALKS, Events

DOC TALK (ONLINE): The Big Scary “S” Word – Screening and Q&A with Yael Bridge (Director/Producer)

“Examines the history of socialism and why so many Americans have been conditioned to reject a philosophy that’s in their best interests”

– Cassie Da Costa, Daily Beast

THE BIG SCARY “S” WORD delves into the rich history of the American socialist movement and journeys with the people striving to build a socialist future today. With inequality growing, a climate catastrophe looming, and right-wing extremism ascending around the world, many Americans are wondering whether capitalism is to blame. But what is the alternative? Socialism is plagued by conflicting definitions. Is it dictatorship or democracy? Norway or Venezuela? Reform or revolution? This film explores where American socialism has been, why it was suppressed, and imagines what a renewed American socialism might look like.

AWARDS: Official Selection: AFI Fest 2020, Official Selection: Mill Valley Film Festival 2020, Official Selection: DOC NYC 2020, Official Selection: HotDocs 2020, Official Selection: DocLands 2020.

Yael Bridge is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker based in Oakland. Her films have shown at major film festivals nationally and internationally. She produced Left on Purpose, winner of the Audience Award at DOC NYC, and most recently produced Saving Capitalism with Robert Reich, nominated for an Emmy Award in Business and Economics. As Director of Productions at Inequality Media, Yael has made numerous viral videos tackling complex political issues that have garnered over 200 million views on social media. She holds an MFA in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University, a Graduate Certificate in Documentary Studies and an MA in Media Studies from the New School.

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January 27, 2021February 27, 2021 Doc Studies DOC TALKS, Events

DOC TALK (ONLINE): Mayor – Screening and Q&A with David Osit (Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor)

THE BEST NEW FILM ABOUT THE ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT is a dark comedy about Ramallah’s Mayor… offers a striking new perspective on that struggle, with a personal on-the-ground quality matched by grand tonal ambitions that makes it the best of its subgenre. CRITICS PICK.
—Indiewire

THOUGHTFUL AND GRIPPING… There are whiffs of Veep-like humor throughout MAYOR … but it’s also a sincere tale of a public servant who’s seeking to lead in a world that’s stacked against him.
—VOX

Offers more absurd moments than Samuel Beckett could have ever worked up.
—UNIVERSAL CINEMA

MAYOR is a real-life political saga following Musa Hadid, the mayor of Ramallah, during his second term in office. Surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements and soldiers, most people in Ramallah will never have the chance to travel more than a few miles outside their home, which is why Mayor Hadid is determined to make the city a beautiful and dignified place to live. His immediate goals: repave the sidewalks, attract more tourism, and plan the city’s Christmas celebrations. His ultimate mission: to end the occupation of Palestine. Rich with detailed observation and a surprising amount of humor, MAYOR offers a portrait of dignity amidst the madness and absurdity of endless occupation while posing a question: how do you run a city when you don’t have a country?

AWARDS: Grand Jury Prize winner: Full Frame Film Festival, NEXT:WAVE winner: CPH:DOX 2020, Best Documentary: Boston Palestine Film Festival, Official Selection: True/False Film Festival 2020.

David Osit is an Emmy Award-winning director, editor and composer. David is one of the directors of the feature documentary THANK YOU FOR PLAYING, which premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, broadcast on POV in 2016, and was nominated for three Emmy awards, winning for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary. He also edited and produced OFF FRAME, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and Berlinale in 2016. His first film, BUILDING BABEL, premiered at True/False in 2012. David is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents and the Sundance Nonfiction Director’s Lab.

Please join us for this online screening and Q&A, hosted and moderated by Amir Husak, Director of Documentary Studies and Assistant Professor in the School of Media Studies.

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March 3, 2020January 5, 2021 Doc Studies Events, NEWS/BLOG

Doc Talk: The Cancer Journals Revisited with filmmaker and Media Studies faculty LANA LIN

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Monday, Mar. 9th at 1PM
Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Ave

Poetic and urgent, eye-opening and razor-sharp, THE CANCER JOURNALS, REVISITED is the cinematic embodiment of Lorde’s deep belief in collective power.

Christina Ree, San Diego Asian Film Festival

Utilizing a non-narrative, poetic approach to the documentary form, the filmmaker channels a plurality of lived, felt experiences into a collective act of better world building.

Amber Power, BOMB Magazine

Join us for this special screening of filmmaker and Media Studies faculty Lana Lin’s award winning documentary, The Cancer Journals Revisited. The film is a poetic rumination on the precarious conditions of survival for women of color today. 27 artists, activists, health care advocates, and current and former patients recite Black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde’s classic 1980 memoir of her breast cancer experience aloud on camera, collectively dramatizing it and producing an oration for the screen. The Cancer Journals Revisited reflects upon what it means to contend with the complex dimensions of illness and its afterlife.

Lana Lin is an artist, filmmaker and writer based in New York. Her work has been shown at international venues including the Whitney Museum and Museum of Modern Art, NY; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany; Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival; Gasworks, London; China-Taipei Film Archive; and the 2018 Busan Biennale. She has received awards from the New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Jerome Foundation, and has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Civitella Ranieri, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. A recent acquisition of Women Make Movies, her latest film, The Cancer Journals Revisited, premiered at BAMcinemaFest and won Best Documentary Feature, San Diego Asian Film Festival and Favorite Experimental Film Award, BlackStar Film Festival. The author of Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer (Fordham UP, 2017), Lin is currently an India China Institute and GIDEST fellow, and Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School.

Please join us for this screening and Q&A, hosted and moderated by Amir Husak, Director of Documentary Studies and Assistant Professor in the School of Media Studies.

February 20, 2020July 14, 2020 Doc Studies Events, Latest News, NEWS/BLOG

Doc Talk: Speak So I Can See You with filmmaker + Media Studies alumna MARIJA STOJNIĆ

“The film that took the top of my head off was Speak So I Can See You….It’s on another planet from character-driven narrative, in a good way…. Art museums should embrace it. Radio aficionados will fall in love with it, and historians will treasure it.” – Pat Auderheide, IDA journal

“Rich in…brilliant moments…. immersing the viewer in quite a unique cinematic experience. And, commendably, it also leaves some room for irony.” – David Abbatesciani, Cineuropa

Serbian filmmaker and Media Studies alumna Marija Stojnić will screen Speak So I Can See You, her new documentary feature on Friday, February 21^st at 6:30pm in Kellen Auditorium. The film premiered at International Documenary Film Festival in Amesterdam last fall, and it is featured at MoMA’s DocFortnight this month. Stojnić, who brings her background in music and keen understanding of the art of documentary, has crafted an original work—a “cinematic soundscape” that captures the wonders of Radio Belgrade, Serbia’s long-lived radio station, which has kept history, culture and critical thinking alive in the former Yugoslavia. Borrowing upon the cumulative effect of slow tracking shots and close-ups of cryptic technological grids and patient performers testing microphones, Stojnić portrays the station in the throes of change as it abandons the dilapidated equipment of its Tito-era studios for the bright newness of the now while clinging to all it holds dear. Her observational visuals illuminate the sounds of the radio past and present, including moments from beloved shows like “The Invisible People” and “Journey through Words,” jazz tributes on “Needle on Vinyl” and live performances of opera, and dramatic readings of writers like Dostoyevsky and Carl Sagan. Stojnić’s underlying focus is on the people who keep Radio Belgrade going—audio engineers, actors, announcers, directors, moving men, and cleaning ladies—while inviting viewers into the haunting space, time, and sounds of Radio Belgrade. Even if you never lived through ’68 or wondered about the future of the former USSR or listened through the night and in your dreams to the rambling thoughts of Radio Belgrade’s philosophical radio hosts, Stojnić’s film conjures a collective memory of the past through audio echoes personal and public.

The film is a love letter to radiophonic art, subtly and playfully demonstrating how radio can make us remember, understand, think, and feel.

Stojnić will join Media Studies faculty member Deirdre Boyle for a Q&A after the screening. This program is open to all students and faculty of The New School.

January 13, 2020May 20, 2020 Doc Studies Events, NEWS/BLOG

Doc Talk: The Hottest August with Filmmaker Brett Story

The Hottest August (95 min)
Monday, January 27, 2020 @ 1:00 PM EST

Kellen Auditorium
66 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10011

A complex portrait of a city and its inhabitants, The Hottest August gives us a window into the collective consciousness of the present. The film’s point of departure is one city over one month: New York City, including its outer boroughs, during August 2017. It’s a month heavy with the tension of a new President, growing anxiety over everything from rising rents to marching white nationalists, and unrelenting news of either wildfires or hurricanes on every coast. The film pivots on the question of futurity: what does the future look like from where we are standing?

And what if we are not all standing in the same place? The Hottest August offers a mirror onto a society on the verge of catastrophe, registering the anxieties, distractions, and survival strategies that preoccupy ordinary lives.

Brett Story is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has screened at festivals internationally, including the Viennale, True/False, and Oberhausen. Her 2016 feature documentary, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and was a nominee for Best Feature Documentary at the Canadian Screen Awards. Brett holds a PhD in geography from the University of Toronto and is currently an assistant professor in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University. She is the author of the book, Prison Land, and co-editor of the forthcoming volume, Infrastructures of Citizenship. Brett was a 2016 Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Fellow and a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow in film and video.

Please join us for this screening and Q&A, hosted and moderated by Amir Husak, Director of Documentary Studies and Assistant Professor in the School of Media Studies.

November 26, 2019November 26, 2019 Doc Studies Events, NEWS/BLOG, Uncategorized

Doc Studies Info Session!

Members of the faculty and admission counselors will be present to discuss the program, describe professional opportunities in their field, and answer questions about the application process. Recent alumni and current students may also be present based on their availability. Clips of recent student work will be shared.

Contact Phone:	212.229.5150
Contact E-mail:	nsadmissions@newschool.edu
Starts On:	04 Dec 2019 06:00 PM ET
Ends On:	04 Dec 2019 07:30 PM ET
Location:	The New School – Main Campus
Address:	The New School 79 Fifth Avenue, 16th floor Room 1618

October 15, 2019March 3, 2020 Doc Studies Events, NEWS/BLOG

Documentary Studies program at DOC NYC 2019

We are delighted to inform you that our beloved Documentary Studies program will be featured at this year’s DOC NYC, with four films by the last year’s graduate filmmakers in the ‘University Showcase‘, screening on Friday, Nov 8th, 12:15pm at Cinepolis Chelsea.

The selected documentaries are:

PAT’S BOYS BY AMBRUS HERNÁDI

THE WEIGHT OF THE SKY BY UWA IDUOZEE

THE NEWCOMERS CLUB BY TYCHE ZHUGE

LA LUPITA BY MARIA MAYO

Kudos to our outstanding students, our remarkable Doc Studies faculty – Deirdre Boyle, Rafael Parra, Peter Sillen, Simone Maurrice, Erin Greenwell and our exceptional program associates and student assistants of Fall 2018/Spring 2019 – Mimi Vargas, Setare Gholipur, Jordan Unverzagt, and Johanna Case. Special thanks to our current program assistant, Marcos Echeverria Ortiz, who helped compile the films for the screening.

Tickets can be purchased here.