
Born and raised in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, Audrey Emerson is a documentary producer and arts entrepreneur based out of Los Angeles, CA. A graduate of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, Audrey has produced and championed projects for television, documentary film, and social impact for which she has been awarded numerous grants and awards allowing her team to uncover untold and under-represented stories on every continent. Some of her most recent projects include The Pamoja Project — which screened at festivals around the world and garnered incredible praise, both critically and for it’s dynamic and broadly applicable social impact strategy— and Mind Over Battle, a TV-Documentary that premiered worldwide on Al Jazeera Witness. Currently Audrey works for Devlo Media where she produces a wide range of content including: documentary shorts, branded content, photography, multi-part features, special event coverage and more. Before joining Devlo Media, Audrey worked for Creative Visions, a non-profit focused on supporting creative activism. While there, she oversaw the inaugural Spark Change Summit, a sold out convening on Social Impact Entertainment featuring leaders across the film industry co-hosted by the UCLA Skoll Center, and the distribution and promotion of the film, The Journey Is The Destination, which was released on Netflix in early 2018.
Sessions in which Audrey Emerson participates
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
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Claire Aguilar (International Documentary Associati)
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Participant
Randy Haberkamp (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
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Participant
Simon Kilmurry (International Documentary Association)
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9:15 AM
9:15 AM
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Pulling Back the Curtain
1 hour 30 minutes
10:00 AM
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11:30 AM
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Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study
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Linwood Dunn Theater
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Keith Ochwat (Paradigm Consulting)
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Participant
Peter Broderick (Paradigm Consulting)
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Interactive Workshop
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
3:45 PM
3:45 PM
Challenge of Independent Film Distribution
1 hour 30 minutes
3:45 PM
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5:15 PM
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ArcLight Hollywood
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Theater 8
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Alice Apley (Documentary Educational Resources)
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Moderator
Karen Konicek (Zipporah Films, Inc.)
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Participant
Efuru Flowers (Flourishing Films)
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Participant
Jonathan Skurnik (Skurnik Productions, LLC)
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Moderator
Debra Zimmerman (Women Make Movies)
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Panel
Moderator
Iyabo Boyd (Brown Girls Doc Mafia)
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Participant
Abby Sun (The DocYard/MIT Open Doc Lab)
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Participant
Joseph Tovares
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Participant
Donald Young (CAAM)
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Panel
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
A Conversation with Morgan Neville and Judd Apatow
1 hour
4:00 PM
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5:00 PM
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Cinerama Dome
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Theater
Conversation
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Moderator
Doug Block (The D-Word)
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Moderator
Heidi Fleisher (D-Word co-host)
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Moderator
Peter Gerard (The D-Word)
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Participant
Hussain Currimbhoy (Sundance Film Festival)
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Moderator
Erica Ginsberg (The D-Word)
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Participant
Marshall Curry (Marshall Curry Productions)
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Participant
Nausheen Dadabhoy (Firelight Media)
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Participant
Marilyn Ness (Big Mouth Productions)
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Participant
Heidi Reinberg (Heidi Reinberg Big Idea, LLC)
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Participant
Yvonne Welbon (Sisters in Cinema)
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6:00 PM
6:00 PM
7:15 AM
7:15 AM
Documentary Audience Research Launch Breakfast
2 hours
7:15 AM
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9:15 AM
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Kimpton Everly Hotel
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Ballroom
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9:00 AM
9:00 AM
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
Localizing Your Content for Any Market
1 hour 30 minutes
9:30 AM
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11:00 AM
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ArcLight Hollywood
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Theater 8
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Pamela Aguilar (PBS)
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Participant
Nina Alvarez (Zócalo Media)
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Participant
Kirsten Kelly (Female)
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Participant
Jamie Myers (PBS SoCal / KOCE)
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Moderator
Aldo Mora-Blanco (ITVS)
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Participant
Amy Shaw (NINE NETWORK OF PUBLIC MEDIA)
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Panel
9:45 AM
9:45 AM
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Making a Living at Making Change with Documentary
1 hour 30 minutes
11:30 AM
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1:00 PM
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Film L.A.
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Meeting Room
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Participant
Ani Mercedes (Impact Producer)
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Moderator
Sonya Childress (Firelight Media)
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Participant
Michael Premo (Storyline)
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Participant
Erin Sorenson (Third Stage Consulting)
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Moderator
MOLLY Murphy (Working Films)
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Panel
Moderator
Tom Jennings (PBS Frontline)
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Participant
Monika Bauerlein (Mother Jones)
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Sonia Kennebeck (Codebreaker Films)
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Participant
Fiona Lawson-Baker (Al Jazeera English)
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Participant
Palika Makam (WITNESS)
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Panel
Budgeting Workshop with Robert Bahar
1 hour 30 minutes
11:30 AM
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1:00 PM
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ArcLight Hollywood
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Theater 10
Participant
Robert Bahar (Semilla Verde Productions, Ltd.)
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Workshop
2018 State of the Documentary Field Study: Presentation of Findings
1 hour 45 minutes
11:30 AM
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1:15 PM
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Cinerama Dome
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Theater
Participant
Caty Chattoo (Center for Media & Social Impact, American University School of Communication)
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Presentation
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
Getting In Early: Development Funding
1 hour 30 minutes
1:30 PM
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3:00 PM
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ArcLight Hollywood
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Theater 10
Participant
Lisa Chanoff (Catapult Film Fund)
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Participant
Monika Navarro (Firelight Media)
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Participant
Molly Thompson (A+E Networks)
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Moderator
Bonni Cohen (Catapult Film Fund/ Actual Films)
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Participant
Caroline von Kuhn (Sundance Institute)
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Participant
Hajnal Molnar-Szakacs (Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program)
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Participant
Carrie Lozano (Sundance Institute)
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Panel
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Ben Fowlie (Points North Institute)
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Participant
Jax Deluca (National Endowment for the Arts)
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Participant
Erica Ginsberg (The D-Word)
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Moderator
Ken Jacobson (Freelance)
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Participant
Tim Horsburgh (Kartemquin)
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Participant
PJ Raval (Unraval Pictures)
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Panel
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
That's a Fact!
1 hour 30 minutes
2:00 PM
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3:30 PM
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Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study
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1st Floor Conference Room
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Participant
Lindsay Crouse (The New York Times)
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Participant
Hilke Schellmann (New York University)
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Presentation
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Is Short The New Feature? How Short Digital Content Can Further Your Story, Impact and Career
1 hour 30 minutes
3:30 PM
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5:00 PM
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ArcLight Hollywood
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Theater 8
Participant
Danny Alpert (Kindling Group)
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Moderator
Laura Fallsgraff (Kindling Group)
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Participant
Michael Fequiere (Great Big Story)
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Moderator
Kristin Pichaske (Kindling Group)
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Participant
Jacob Kornbluth (Inequality Media)
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Participant
Kathleen Lingo (The New York Times)
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Panel
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
6:30 PM
6:30 PM
Participant
Brian Babylon (Babylon Industries )
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Game Show
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
Keynote: Orwa Nyrabia
30 minutes
9:00 AM
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9:30 AM
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Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study
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Linwood Dunn Theater
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Keynote
9:45 AM
9:45 AM
New 2018 Tax Code: Financing, Forming & Operating Your Film Documentary Production Company in 2018 and Beyond
1 hour 30 minutes
9:45 AM
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11:15 AM
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ArcLight Hollywood
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Theater 8
Participant
Steven Beer (Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo, P.C.)
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Participant
Steve Holmgren
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Participant
Fred Siegel (Fred Siegel CPA)
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Presentation
Participant
Locsi Ferra (Level Forward )
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Moderator
Sonya Childress (Firelight Media)
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Participant
Maori Holmes (BlackStar Film Festival)
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Participant
Katie Mota (Wise Entertainment)
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Participant
Deana Nassar (Arab Film and Media Institute)
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Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Impact Producers Convening
1 hour
11:30 AM
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12:30 PM
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LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
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Gallery
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Convening
11:45 AM
11:45 AM
Broadcast Production Pipelines
1 hour 30 minutes
11:45 AM
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1:15 PM
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ArcLight Hollywood
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Theater 10
Moderator
Kevin Iwashina (International Documentary Association, Endeavor Content)
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Participant
Alan Eyres (National Geographic)
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Participant
Jannat Gargi (VulcanProductions)
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Participant
Julie Goldman (Motto Pictures)
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Participant
Justine Nagan (American Documentary / POV & America ReFramed)
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Participant
Poh Si Teng (AJE Witness)
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Panel
Documentary Production Between China and the US
1 hour 30 minutes
11:45 AM
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1:15 PM
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ArcLight Hollywood
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Theater 8
Moderator
Karin Chien (dGenerate Films)
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Participant
Violet Feng (Lost & Found Film Studio)
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Participant
shengze zhu (Burn The Film)
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Participant
Zien CUI (cuiziDV Studio)
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Participant
dayong zhao (Dayong films studio)
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Participant
Rikun Zhu (Mr.)
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Panel
1:15 PM
1:15 PM
Outside the Frame: Conversations from the Cutting Room
1 hour 30 minutes
1:15 PM
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2:45 PM
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Arena Cinelounge
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Theater
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Participant
Carla Gutierrez
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Moderator
Robb Moss (Harvard University, Dept. of Visual and Environmental Studies)
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Participant
Kim Roberts (Editor with Silence of Others)
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Participant
Aaron Wickenden
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Panel
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Moderator
Deana Nassar (Arab Film and Media Institute)
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Participant
dima abu ghoush (Collage Productions)
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Participant
Salim Abu Jabal (Boujabel Production)
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Participant
Muayad Alayan (PalCine Productions)
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Participant
Mahmoud Al Massad (Jo Image)
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Participant
Imad Burnat (5 broken cameras )
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Participant
Mohamed Jabaly (JABALI Film)
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Participant
May Odeh (odeh films)
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Participant
Rula Salameh (Just Vision)
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Panel
5:45 PM
5:45 PM
Closing Remarks
15 minutes
5:45 PM
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6:00 PM
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Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study
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Linwood Dunn Theater
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Participant
Claire Aguilar (International Documentary Associati)
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Participant
Simon Kilmurry (International Documentary Association)
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6:00 PM
6:00 PM
Closing Night Party
1 hour 15 minutes
6:00 PM
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7:15 PM
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Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study
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Back Lot
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
Special Closing Night Event: 35mm restoration of Salesman
2 hours
7:30 PM
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9:30 PM
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Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study
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Linwood Dunn Theater
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Moderator
Randy Haberkamp (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
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Participant
Rebekah Maysles (Maysles Films)
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Screening