SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1 at 7:30 PM.
“The Cinema Novo movement emphasized social equality in Brazilian and Latin American cinema in the 1960’s and 70’s. Saturday evening we will present three important works from this period: two short pieces by cinema legend Glauber Rocha (Maranhao 66 and a clip from his television series Abertura), and Joaquim Pedro de Andrade’s essential document of the era Cinema Novo, produced for German Television in 1967. Continue reading “Brazil’s Cinema Novo — Union Docs”
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)”
Premiere of Sue Hagedorn’s DEPUTIZED — Sunday, December 2 at 1pm.
The 2008 fatal stabbing of Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorian immigrant, exposes a thinly veiled system of intolerance for immigrants in a Long Island community. Continue reading “Doc Studies Alum at Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival”
A rare screening of landmark New York place films by the great postwar photodocumentarians Rudy Burckhardt, Lionel Rogosin, Helen Levitt and James Agee. Continue reading “The New York Street — MOMA”
In 1995, four Danish filmmakers led by the director Lars von Trier issued a manifesto, for film a proclamation declaring a set of aesthetic ‘rules’ for cinema.
According to author Patrick Kinsley, in his new book How To Be Danish, the Dogme manifesto inspired a renaissance in Danish culture. Continue reading “The Dogme Manifesto — How It Reinvented Denmark”
The 2012 Margaret Mead Film Festival of contemporary cultural storytelling will screen 29 films and host special multi-media events and performances.
Continue reading “Margaret Mead Film Festival: November 29 – December 2”
Jeremy Cohan, a recent graduate of the Doc Studies graduate certificate program, is a recipient of the distinguished Directors Guild of America Student Film Award for his documentary short AFTER, on suicide bereavement within a family. Continue reading “Doc Studies alum Jeremy Cohan wins DGA Student Film Award”
“Documentary cinema … I’m not talking about propaganda or film journalism or brilliant programs about animals or culture. I mean making films out of contemporary reality.” Continue reading “Director Lindsay Anderson on Britain’s ‘Free Cinema’”
The New School Doc Studies 