2007 festival

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institute panels & workshops

Africa Stories
Saturday, April 14 / 12:15 PM / Durham Arts Council

This year Full Frame received more submissions about Africa than ever before. We bring these filmmakers together to discuss the growing interest in telling the stories of Africa by those who are mostly from outside the continent. We look at the urgent and surprising films being made by filmmakers from the international community and ask, why now and who will listen?

Moderated by Lydie Diakhate (Director, The Real Life Documentary Festival, Ghana).

Panelists include Philippe Diaz (The Empire in Africa), Haile Gerima (Harvest 3,000 Years), Louise Hogarth (Angels in the Dust), Jamie Meltzer (Welcome to Nollywood), Mira Nair (Founder, Maisha Film Lab), Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt (Lumo), Michael Skolnik (Without the King), Annie Sundberg (The Devil Came on Horseback), among others.

Films included in Africa Stories

from The Power of Ten
ABC Africa
The Battle of Algiers
Harvest 3,000 Years
The Empire in Africa

from New Docs
Angels in the Dust
The Devil Came on Horseback
Lumo
Surfing Soweto
Uganda Rising
War/Dance
Welcome to Nollywood
Without the King

from In-The-Works
Yo Tek: A Uganda Tennis Story

Digital to Film: Alpha Cine Demo
Saturday, April 14 / 12:30 PM / Cinema Two

Hosted by Alpha Cine Labs, Seattle

With the revolution in digital filmmaking, more and more filmmakers are able to capture their ideas on screen. Getting their movies in front of wider audiences on the BIG screen is another story.

There are many choices for taking your digital project to film. Alpha Cine can show you the ins and outs of the process. Learn how to take your digital video to film by reviewing sample clips transferred to 35mm from a number of sources including mini-DV, DVCAM, Beta, Digibeta, HD 24p, S16mm and 35mm DI’s. This hugely successful annual workshop is essential for the practical independent filmmaker.

Digital to 35mm clips will include: Jesus Camp, Iraq in Fragments, Born Into Brothels, The Blood of Yingzhou District, Control Room.

Documentary Gaming
Friday, April 13 / 7:00 PM / Durham Arts Council

This panel examines the exciting (and sometimes disturbing) world of interactive nonfiction gaming. We bring experts to look at the interesting repercussions of experiencing the real world this way.

Moderated by Tim Lenoir (Kimberly Jenkins Chair for New Technologies and Society at Duke University).

Panelists include Anne Garreta (Visiting Professor in Literature at Duke University), Jigar Mehta (Playing the News), Marcin Ramocki (8 Bit), Justin Strawhand (8 Bit), among others.

Following the screening of Playing the News

The Power of Ten: A Conversation
Saturday, April 14 / 3:00 PM / Fletcher Hall

The curators of the thematic series come together to discuss the personal and cultural impact of their selected films. We invite them to discuss these films as turning points on their own artistic journeys and why this matters to us in 2007.

Moderated by Robert Krulwich (Correspondent; ABC News, NPR).

Panelists include St. Clair Bourne, Charles Burnett, Ariel Dorfman, Cara Mertes, Michael Moore, Walter Mosley, Mira Nair, DA Pennebaker and Julia Reichert.

Preserving Documentaries Forever
Saturday, April 14 / 10:00 AM / Cinema Two

Everything you ever needed to know about preserving your documentaries. Experts look at everything from negative restoration, audio repair, print and digital conservation and climate-controlled storage in the service of saving documentaries and creating a legacy for future generations.

Moderated by Margaret Bodde (Executive Director, The Film Foundation).

Panelists include Schawn Belston (VP of Asset Management & Film Preservation, 20th Century Fox), Fran Bowen (Partner, Trackwise at Full House Productions), Karen Glynn (Visual Materials Archivist, Perkins Library, Duke University), DA Pennebaker (filmmaker) and Russ Suniewick (President of Colorlab Corporation).

Reaching Out on Global Warming
Sunday, April 15 /12:00 PM / Durham Arts Council

This panel explores two approaches to community outreach on one of the most pressing issues of our time—global climate change—in Everything’s Cool and An Inconvenient Truth. Using these case studies, we compare strategies as varied as national marketing promotion, grass-roots word of mouth efforts and Web viral campaigns, as filmmakers and their outreach teams find innovative ways of getting their messages to the widest audiences possible with the hope of affecting change.

Moderated by Diana Barrett (President, The Fledgling Fund).

Panelists include Lisa Day (Vice President of Corporate and Community Affairs, Participant Productions), Judith Helfand (Everything's Cool), Robert West (Co-Founder and Executive Director, Working Films) and Diane Weyermann (Executive Vice President of Documentary Production, Participant Productions).

Sponsored by The Fledgling Fund

Show Me the Money: The Reality of the Documentary Heyday
Friday, April 13 / 1:00 PM / Durham Arts Council
Industry leaders discuss who is really benefiting from new documentary platforms and delivery systems. Together the panelists ask about the bottom line in the ever-changing business models of theatrical, television and downloadable distribution.

Moderated by Eugene Hernandez (Editor-in-Chief, indieWIRE).

Panelists include Dan Klores (Crazy Love), Sheila Nevins (President, HBO Documentary and Family), Tom Quinn (Head of Acqusitions, Magnolia Pictures), Ted Sarandos (Chief Content Operator, Netflix), Steve Savage (President and Co-Founder, New Video, Docurama) and John Sloss (Principle, Cinetic Media).

Truth and Reconciliation Panel
Sunday, April 15 / 4:00 PM / Fletcher Hall

With guests from each of the films in the Southern Sidebar, the panel approaches the common project of seeking justice and resolution for racial injustices of recent times. Our filmmakers discuss the motivations behind these powerful, truth seeking documentaries. Activists and community leaders share insight about their work on the ground among communities trying to rebuild faith.
Moderated by Hodding Carter III (Professor of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Former President and CEO of the Knight Foundation).

Panelists include Godfrey Cheshire (Moving Midway), Robert Hinton (Associate Director of The Africana Studies Program at New York University), Rev. Nelson Johnson (Executive Director of the Beloved Community Center of Greensboro), Lisa Magarrell (International Center for Transitional Justice), Signe Waller (Vice President Greensboro Justice Fund), Marco Williams (Banished) and Adam Zucker (Greensboro: Closer to the Truth).

Following screening of Greensboro: Closer to the Truth

Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies at Duke University

Vlogging Workshop
Saturday, April 14 / 3:15 PM / Durham Arts Council

Interested in starting your own video blog? Taught by established vloggers, this hands-on workshop covers all the basics you’ll need to know.

Led by Jay Dedman (www.momentshowing.net), Ryanne Hodson (ryanedit.blogspot.com) and Michael Verdi (www.michaelverdi.com).

Video on the Web: Inventing the Future
TimesTalks: The New York Times Speaker Series
Friday, April 13 / 3:15 PM / Durham Arts Council

Accompanying Full Frame’s new program <frameset>, this panel looks at independent and institutional online videos. Featuring over a dozen independent videos that premiered online, <frameset> highlights the innovative and varied world of user-generated content, personal filmmaking that calls the Internet home. The panel looks at the changing creative, legal and business models that are both exciting and baffling to a new community of documentary filmmakers, whether independent or working for hire.

Moderated by David Carr (Columnist and Reporter, The New York Times).

Panelists include Brian Conley (Alive in Baghdad), Jennifer Jenkins (Director of Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain), Peter Jordan (filmmaker, Darfur Rising), Daniel Liss (pouringdown.tv, world maps), Lawrie Mifflin (Executive Director of Television & Video, The New York Times), among others.

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