Sapana Sakya
Talent Development and Special Projects Manager
CAAM
Sapana Sakya’s background is in journalism and documentary filmmaking. She recently returned from four years in Nepal, working with the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (kimff) to create kimff Doc Lab supporting Nepali filmmakers. Currently, she is the Talent Development & Special Projects Manager at the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM). In her previous work with CAAM, she served as Public Media Director, overseeing funding for independent filmmakers. She trained with distinguished filmmaker Jon Else at the University of California, Berkeley and has since produced and directed several documentaries (Daughters of Everest, Red White Blue November, Oklahoma Home). She currently lives in Berkeley, California with her husband and two daughters.
Sessions in which Sapana Sakya attends
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- Special Pre-conference Screening: Food Inc
- Signup required Samuel Goldwyn Theater - Theater
- 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM | 2 hours 30 minutes
- Screening
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
- Registration Cinerama Dome - Lobby
- 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 9 hours
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Welcome to Getting Real '18 Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | 15 minutes
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Lunch Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Back Lot
- 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM | 3 hours
11:45 AM
11:45 AM
- Therapeutic Interventions in Documentary
- Signup required Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Case Study with the Filipino Production Team for Call Her Ganda ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
- Documenting the Present, Preserving the Future
- Signup required Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- Airtight and Incontestable ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
3:45 PM
3:45 PM
- #DecolonizeDocs—The Industry ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Whine Before The Wine Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- Opening Night Party Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Back Lot
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | 2 hours
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Keynote: Michèle Stephenson Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Keynote
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9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- #DecolonizeDocs—The Filmmaker ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
9:45 AM
9:45 AM
- Frederick Wiseman Master Class Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM | 1 hour
- Workshop
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Collective Intelligence: Co-Creative and Emergent Documentaries
- Signup required Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Performance
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Journalists Under Threat ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- 2018 State of the Documentary Field Study: Presentation of Findings Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 11:30 AM - 1:15 PM | 1 hour 45 minutes
- Presentation
- Lunch Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Back Lot
- 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM | 3 hours
- Sally Jo Fifer Mini-Keynote
- Participant Sally Fifer (ITVS) |
- 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | 15 minutes Part of: 2018 State of the Documentary Field Study: Presentation of Findings
- Keynote
11:45 AM
11:45 AM
- Reenactment Reconsidered: Staged Realities and Nonfiction Fantasies
- Signup required Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
- Regional Sustainability Models ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Getting In Early: Development Funding ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- Not Your Grandmother's Historical Doc
- Signup required Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- Is Short The New Feature? How Short Digital Content Can Further Your Story, Impact and Career ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
3:45 PM
3:45 PM
- NEH Funding: Tips from Filmmakers and the NEH
- Signup required Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Keynote: Chi-hui Yang Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Keynote
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8:00 PM
8:00 PM
- PBS Indies Party
- Signup required NeueHouse Hollywood - NeueHouse Hollywood
- 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 2 hours
9:45 AM
9:45 AM
- #DecolonizeDocs—The Audience ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Lunch Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Back Lot
- 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM | 3 hours
11:45 AM
11:45 AM
- Ellen Schneider Announces PreNups for Partners
- Participant Ellen Schneider |
- 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM | 15 minutes Part of: National Minority Consortia
- Presentation
- National Minority Consortia
- Signup required Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 11:45 AM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour 45 minutes
- Panel
- Documentary Production Between China and the US ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- Making the Most of Mentorship ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- A-Doc, the Asian American Documentary Network Convening
- Signup required LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) - Gallery
- 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour
- Convening
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Role of Documentary in the Public Sphere
- Signup required Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- Closing Night Party Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Back Lot
- 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes