SHORT LIST DAY: OVERVIEW

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Breakfast 9:00 – 10 am. Co-presented by Showtime Documentary Films.

Short List Day is co-presented by VH1 and Logo Documentary Films

Morning Manifesto 10:00 – 10:30 am

Owen Gleiberman, Variety’s lead film reviewer and author of Movie Freak, applies his critical perspective to doc trends.

Unfolding Stories 10:30 – 11:40 am

Filmmakers Clay Tweel, Gleason; Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani, The Ivory Game; Dawn Porter, Trapped; and Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg, Weiner discuss following a story when you don’t know how it will end.

Character Studies 12:00 –  1:10 pm

Filmmakers Rod Blackhurst, Brian McGinn, Amanda Knox; Barbara Kopple Miss Sharon Jones!; Brian Oakes Jim: The James Foley Story; and Randy Barbato & Fenton Bailey, Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures discuss crafting nuanced portraits of complicated lives.

American Histories 2:00 – 3:10 pm

Filmmakers Raoul Peck, I Am Not Your Negro and Ezra Edelman, OJ: Made in America along with author and attorney Bryan Stevenson from 13th, discuss retelling chapters of American history from fresh perspectives.

Pushing Boundaries 3:30 – 4:40

Filmmakers Kirsten Johnson, Cameraperson; Gianfranco Rosi, Fire at Sea; Clive Oppenheimer Into the Inferno; and Roger Ross Williams, Life, Animated discuss challenging stylistic expectations in a documentary.

Happy Hour 5:00 – 6:00 pm

Co-presented by Vulcan Productions.

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