FRIDAY NOV. 10, 2006 : 2PM - 6PM FUNGLODE
DOCUMENTARY MASTER CLASS: The A to Z of Documentary Production
Have a great idea for a documentary but not sure how to start working on your doc? Feeling stuck? This workshop focuses on turning your idea into a strong documentary. We will cover the basics of documentary idea development, proposal writing, funding strategies, and budget development. Please bring your sample proposals and trailers or any work related to your documentary that you have created to date.
Workshop limited to 15 .
Bienvenida (Beni) Matías: pioneering Puerto Rican filmmaker
Natalia Almada, filmmaker, Al Otro Lado, All Water Has a Perfect Memor VIDEO | PHOTO GALLERY
Before coming to CAC, Ms. Matías was Director of Production at the Independent Television Services and Executive-in-Charge of Production at WNYC-TV. She has received funds from ITVS LiNCS Program, Jerome Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, and National Endowment for the Arts for her documentary work, and received a Leadership Initiative in Neighborhood grant, from the St. Paul Company, Minnesota, to explore connections between arts criticism, media, leadership, and community activism. She is producing with Frances Negrón-Muntaner For the Record: World War II in Guam, a film the Japanese occupation of Guam from 1941 to 1944, a American territory in the Pacific, during World War II. She mentors many emerging documentary filmmakers, and created the NALIP NY Documentary Mentoring program, and has taught at Hunter College, Film and Media Studies Department. She has a Production Management degree from La Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía, Madrid, Spain.
NATALIA ALMADA
Al Otro Lado is Natalia Almada's debut feature length documentary for which she received support from the Sundance Documentary Fund, The Tribeca All Access Program, The New York Foundation for the Arts and the Artizona Humanities Council. Her experimental short, All Water Has A Perfect Memory, about a cross-cultural family remembering the loss of a child, was an official selection of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, was awarded best short documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival, and a gold plaque award at the Chicago International Film Festival. Natalia was born in Mexico and was raised in both Mexico and the United States. Natalia is a 2005 recipient of a Creative Capital Grant for her new project in development El General. She received her Masters of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design and she currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Beni Matias is a pioneering Puerto Rican filmmaker. Her 1979 film Heart of Loisaida was recognized by the New York Public Library as part of their major film preservation initiative, “Twentieth Century Mirrors: America Through the Eyes of Independent Filmmakers.” She is a founding member and Chair of the Board of Directors of NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers) Coordinator. She was the Executive Director for the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF) and of the Center for Arts Criticism, a Minneapolis-based non-profit.
