
Rebecca Haimowitz
Rebecca Haimowitz is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has screened across the world. She Directed & Produced 62 DAYS, a documentary about a brain-dead pregnant woman who was forced to remain on life support against her wishes. That film premiered at the inaugural Meet The Press Film Festival with AFI and aired on PBS/World Channel’s “Reel South.” She is also the Co-Director/Producer of the award-winning feature film MADE IN INDIA, about outsourcing surrogate mothers to India. The film premiered at the Hot Docs International Film Festival in Toronto, won “Best Documentary” at several film festivals, and aired on PBS in 2012. Rebecca has received support from the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund, Fork Films, Chicken & Egg Pictures, the Fledgling Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts, The Harnisch Foundation, and more. She received her MFA in Filmmaking from Columbia University's Graduate School of the Arts, where she also worked as a screenwriting Instructor. She is an Assistant Arts Professor in the Open Arts department at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she teaches documentary filmmaking and collaborative workshops. Rebecca is committed to creating powerful films that reveal the human side behind timely issues.
Sessions in which Rebecca Haimowitz attends
- Special Pre-conference Screening: Food Inc
- Signup required Samuel Goldwyn Theater - Theater
- 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM | 2 hours 30 minutes
- Screening
- Welcome to Getting Real '18 Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | 15 minutes
- Keynote: Molly Thompson Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 9:15 AM - 9:45 AM | 30 minutes
- Keynote
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- Pulling Back the Curtain
- Signup required Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Interactive Workshop
- 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
- Challenge of Independent Film Distribution ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- #DecolonizeDocs—The Industry ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Whine Before The Wine Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Opening Night Party Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Back Lot
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | 2 hours
- Keynote: Michèle Stephenson Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Keynote
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- #DecolonizeDocs—The Filmmaker ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Frederick Wiseman Master Class Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM | 1 hour
- Workshop
- 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
- 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
- Getting In Early: Development Funding ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- 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
- After #MeToo ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Keynote: Chi-hui Yang Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Keynote
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- Gimme Truth!
- Signup required The Montalbán - Theatre
- 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Game Show
- New 2018 Tax Code: Financing, Forming & Operating Your Film Documentary Production Company in 2018 and Beyond ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Presentation
- #DecolonizeDocs—The Audience ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Broadcast Production Pipelines ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Thriving Filmmaker Workshop
- Signup required Film L.A. - Meeting Room
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Workshop
- Crediting at a Crossroads ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- 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
- Closing Night Party Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Back Lot
- 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes