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Kirsten Johnson is an award-winning New York-based documentary filmmaker and cinematographer who started working on local fiction and documentary film projects in West Africa before graduating from the FEMIS (the French National Film School) in Paris. Asylum, a short documentary she shot in Ghana, was nominated for an Oscar in 2004. Since then, she has shot some of the most powerful documentaries in recent years, including A Place at the Table, the Oscar-nominated The Invisible War and most recently Laura Poitras's Citizenfour, which won Best Documentary at last year's Oscars. Traveling the globe with leading documentary filmmakers for 25 years, the many subjects she has covered range from Bosnian genocide to impoverished Nigerian maternity wards to Edward Snowden. She made her directorial debut with Cameraperson, drawing on footage she has shot over the course of her career and earning her the Sheffield Doc/Fest's Grand Jury Award. Cameraperson is screening in IDFA's special focus program Assembling Reality this year.

Burning Out IDFA Q&A 22 November 2016 by IDFA Podcast

The ways in which documentaries are commissioned are changing: in an evolving media landscape and a globalizing world, good stories can come from anywhere. But how to develop documentaries out of these stories, is another thing. In this talk, Nick Fraser will introduce his new online documentary platform Yaddo, a subscription-based streaming service that will co-finance films as well as show them. Unlike its big VOD brothers Amazon and Netflix, who are increasingly active in the documentary market, Yaddo is also a pitching platform for short films. Filmmakers can pitch their stories online even by Twitter or email and attract investors to fully commission their ideas. In what sense do VOD-services, big and small, open up opportunities and access for filmmakers who want to tell their stories? Will online pitching platforms change the future of documentaries and how they are created? Nick Fraser will tell you all about Yaddo and what it can mean for developing filmmakers' stories.

Over the past decade, the Internet has given rise to all sorts of new digital art forms and business models. This Industry Talk explores different ways pioneers have funded and created undefined non-fiction art. Now that the digital dust has settled, what should we take with us moving forward into the next decade? The ways of finding funding are as open and multifaceted as the forms of interactive art, but this doesn't mean it's easy. How can crowdfunding, traditional public funds, VOD platforms and money from venture capital be (re)defined and be used by other creators? A diverse panel shares its experiences on both financing and constructive business models for future work.

AH IDFA Q&A 21 November 2016 by IDFA Podcast

Cameraperson IDFA Q&A 21 November 2016 by IDFA Podcast

Kiki IDFA Q&A 21 November 2016 by IDFA Podcast

Monster in the Mind IDFA Q&A 21 November 2016 by IDFA Podcast

Who's Gonna Love Me Now IDFA Q&A 21 November 2016 by IDFA Podcast

Letters From Baghdad IDFA Q&A 20 November 2016 by IDFA Podcast