As a warm up just a week before the festival, American filmmaker Tracie Holder will give a lecture on documentary filmmaking focusing on empathy for social change.
All are welcome! The presentation is English.
Date: OCT 1 - 12:00
Location: Belvárosi Mozi
Documentary as Empathy Generator and Social Change Catalyst
In this workshop, we will explore the unique power well-crafted documentaries have to create empathy and allow the viewer to walk in someone else’s shoes. Documentaries often shine a light on marginalized voices or human experiences that fall under the radar screen by focusing on the intimacy of real people’s stories. Using the language of cinema, documentaries speak to the heart rather than the head. As a result, documentaries have the capacity to raise awareness, influence people and expose them to new perspectives. During this workshop, we will look at a handful of clips and very short films and discuss specific examples of “engagement campaigns” that have harnessed the power of documentary to raise awareness and foster social change.
Tracie Holder is a filmmaker, consultant, producer and film funding specialist. A 2016 Sundance Creative Producers Fellow, Holder leads workshops, tutors and serves on juries at international pitching and training sessions. She has been honored with grant awards from major film funders including Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowments for the Humanities, NYS Council for the Arts, CPB, ITVS, and PBS/American Masters, among others. Clients include: Docs Lisboa, IDFA, Sheffield Doc Fest, Firelight Media, DOC NYC, Creative Capital, Chicken & Egg, Black Public Media, Unions Docs, and Gotham Media, among others. Holder was a longtime consultant to Women Make Movies and served as the Development & Funding Strategist for Abby Disney’s Fork Films. She is a former board member of New York Women in Film and grant panelist for national and local funders. She co-directed/produced JOE PAPP IN FIVE ACTS, (Tribeca Film Festival, PBS/American Masters). Producing credits include GRIT, (Hot Docs/POV) and SMALL TOWN UNIVERSE, and GIVE IT A SHOT? in production.
