UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art

UnionDocs was proud to host Programmer Lorenzo Gattorna and the show The Improbable Made Possible on February 10 2013. Lorenzo is a filmmaker with a BFA degree from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and he currently lives in Baltimore where he is programming a monthly screening series by the name...

Longinotto is renowned as a purveyor of cinéma vérité and lauded by critics for her sensitive treatment of groundbreaking subject matter, and rarely seen perspectives from around the globe. Longinotto will share clips, documentary techniques, working experiences, as well as craft and...

Cipher by Samita Sinha Cipher is a solo work that begins from the question: how does sound come out of my body? Sinha explores this question using the “nonsense” sounds of tarana—a genre of song in Indian classical music invented in the 13th century that mixes Persian, Arabic, and...

Jon Alpert has won three Primetime Emmy Awards, eleven News & Documentary Emmy Awards and one National Emmy for Sports Programming, as well as three Colombia DuPont Awards, two Overseas Press Club Awards and a Peabody Award. Over the past thirty-five years, Jon Alpert has received...

Johanna Linsley is a researcher, writer, producer and performance artist. She is a founding partner of UnionDocs and research assistant on Performing Documents, a collaborative research project with the University of Bristol, the Arnolfini Arts Centre and Inbetween Time productions. ...

From the discussion: Can Documentaries Change the World? Assessing, Funding, and Harnessing the Social Impact of Nonfiction Film. Filmmaker and activist Judith Helfand (Blue Vinyl; Everything’s Cool), philanthropist and filmmaker Abigail Disney (Pray the Devil Back to Hell), and Debika...

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