When Documentaries Disturb the Power Structure Monday, September 16th, 2013 11:45AM - 12:45PM
Sometimes, when making investigative work, the filmmakers can get too close to the flame, inciting the ire of their subjects, and those around them. But, isn’t stoking change a part of the mission of a documentary film? We’ll hear from a few filmmakers who dare speak truth to power about the joys and challenges of making work like this, and why they feel compelled to make this kind of work despite the risks.
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Moderator Deirdre Haj Haj is the executive director of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. She has produced documentaries and has consulted to the MPAA. Haj is a member of Women in Film, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Screen Actors Guild and the executive committee at the Festival Forum.
Panelists Claire Aguilar CLAIRE AGUILAR is Executive Content Advisor at ITVS where she oversees programming strategy and advises on content recommendations and the international funding initiative. She commissions programming from the global community of independent producers and is curator of Independent Lens, the PBS prime-time series of independently produced programming.
Carl Deal Carl Deal, along with his collaborator Tia Lessin, directed and produced CITIZEN KOCH and the Oscar-nominated TROUBLE THE WATER, named one of the top ten documentaries of the year by The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, and the LA Times. He is currently co-Directing The Yes Men Are Revolting.
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Mette Hoffmann Meyer Mette Hoffmann Meyer is head of documentaries at DR TV, responsible for some 1100 hours of documentaries per year. She is the initiator and executive producer of WHY POVERTY?
Eugene Jarecki Eugene Jarecki is an acclaimed filmmaker and author who has twice won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, first for WHY WE FIGHT, about America’s military-industrial complex, and then for THE HOUSE I LIVE IN, about the War on Drugs. His other films include REAGAN and THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER.
Tia Lessin Tia Lessin is the Academy Award nominated director and producer, with Carl Deal, of "Citizen Koch" and "Trouble the Water," winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize and the Gotham Independent Film Award. She was a co-producer of "Fahrenheit 9/11," “Bowling for Columbine,” and Capitalism: A Love Story.
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