nicole karsin
Nicole Karsin produced, directed and co-wrote the feature We Women Warriors (Tejiendo Sabudría), which premiered in 2012 and was her opera prima. The film screened at nearly 40 festivals, was nominated as best documentary for the 2013 Imagen Awards. It won four festival awards including: Outstanding Achievement Award in Filmmaking at the Williamsburg International Film Festival and the Prix Salvador Allende at the Festival Des Libertés in Brussels.
Karsin has worked in Latin America for 20 years as a journalist, human rights activist, and documentarian. Karsin was a fellow at the National Association of Latino Independent Producers’ Latino Producers Academy & Film Independent’s 7-week Inaugural Documentary Lab in 2011. As a journalist, she has reported for the New York Times, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Earth Times, Women’s Enews, NPR’s Latino USA and Pacifica Radio’s Free Speech Radio News, among others. Karsin holds a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Karsin is currently working on a documentary political thriller entitled Amazonia Lot 1-AB that reveals dark secrets of poisoned waters in the remote Peruvian Amazon when indigenous communities take on Big Oil in California Federal Court.
Sessions in which nicole karsin attends
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Interactive Workshop
Keith Ochwat, Paradigm Consulting (Participant)
Peter Broderick, Paradigm Consulting (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Panel
FERAS FAYYAD, LAST MEN IN ALEPPO (Participant)
Kristi Jacobson, Catalyst Films (Participant)
Rebecca Day, Film In Mind (Moderator)
Heidi Reinberg, Heidi Reinberg Big Idea, LLC (Participant)
Marco Williams, Hiptruth Productions (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Panel
James Moll, BLIND VISION FILMS (Moderator)
Shola Lynch, Filmmaker (Participant)
Ross Lipman, corpus fluxus (Participant)
Linda Tadic, Digital Bedrock (Participant)
Todd Wiener, UCLA Film & Television Archive (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Panel
Robert Greene, 4th Row Films (Moderator)
Yance Ford, Filmmaker (Participant)
Kitty Green (Participant)
Sandi Tan, Shirkers LLC (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Panel
Julia Bacha, Just Vision (Participant)
Duong-Chi Do, Media Impact & Engagement Strategist (Moderator)
Nancy Buirski, Augusta Films (Participant)
Sonya Childress, Firelight Media (Participant)
David France, Public Square Films (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Panel
David Weinstein, NEH (Moderator)
Jason Cohn, Bread and Butter Films (Participant)
Arwen Curry, Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (Participant)
Lyn Goldfarb, Lyn Goldfarb Productions (Participant)
sally rubin, Holler Home Productions; Chapman University (Participant)
Alison Sotomayor, MOXIE MEDIA PRODUCTIONS (Participant)
Ashley York, USC (Participant)
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) - Gallery
Convening
Alix Blair, Collective of Documentary Women Cinematographers (Moderator)
Jen Gilomen, Forward Films, Collective of Documentary Women Cinematographers, New Day Films (Moderator)
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) - Gallery
Convening
Simon Kilmurry, International Documentary Association (Participant)