Date/Time
Date(s) - Feb 15 2012
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Location
Tribeca Film Center

Categories

• Classes
• Networking
• Workshop

As filmmaking becomes more accessible, filmmakers across the cultural and ethnic spectrum are bringing their stories to the screen. Multi-cultural films are at the forefront of indie filmmaking. Films like The Help, Pariah, Mooz-lum, and many others capture diverse cultural themes. Producing, marketing, and distributing these films come with their own unique challenges. The panelists will discuss the challenges and strategies they use in producing, marketing, and distributing films of color.

Panelists:

Laurens Grant is a multi-Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker whose credits include co-producer of two four-hour series for PBS: Latin Music USA: The Chicano Wave and the Emmy-winning Slavery and the Making of America: Seeds of Destruction and coordinating producer for American Experience’s The Murder of Emmett Till.

Michelle Materre‘s professional background spans more than 25 years experience as a film producer, writer, arts administrator, distribution/marketing specialist, and college professor. As a founding partner of KJM3 Entertainment Group, Inc., a film distribution and marketing company that specialized in multicultural film and television projects, Materre directly managed the marketing and positioning of 23 films including the successful theatrical release of Daughters of the Dust, the highly acclaimed film by Julie Dash, as well as L’Homme Sur Les Quais (The Man By The Shore) by Raoul Peck. Selected client list includes: Julie Dash, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, Tracey Heather Strain, Channel Thirteen/WNET, Stanley Nelson, Women Make Movies, and Third World Newsreel to name a few.

Lucila Moctezuma manages the Production Assistance Program for Women Make Movies, a program that provides support to women in independent production. Originally from Mexico City, she has collaborated with NY’s independent film community since 1996. Lucila has been coordinator of the TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund, and director of the Media Arts Fellowships for the Rockefeller Foundation. She also worked with the Latin American Video Archive, IFP, Margaret Mead Festival, Morelia International Film Festival (Mexico), Mostra Invideo (Italy), Documenta Madrid and Huesca
International Film Festival (Spain). She is co-founder of Cine Qua Non Lab, a residency for international filmmakers based in Michoacán, Mexico. Lucila sits on the Board of Trustees of the Flaherty Film Seminar and on the advisory board of Rooftop Films. 

Moderator Moikgantsi Kgama (pictured above) an audience development specialist with a reputation for excellence.  Her credits include: I Will Follow, Academy Award nominated Trouble the Water, Killer Of Sheep, andLumumba. She is also the founder of the ImageNation Cinema Foundation. A nonprofit media arts organization, ImageNation presents progressive media by and about people of color. Through public exhibitions and programs, ImageNation fosters media equity, media literacy, solidarity, cross-cultural exchange and highlights the humanity of Pan-African people worldwide. ImageNation recently secured space on Harlem’s historic Adam Clayton Powell Blvd and will open this year. Moikgantsi was named one of 25 Women Who Are Shaping the World by Essence Magazine, for her work with ImageNation.

Additional panelist:  Natalie Mooallem, Manager of Feature Programming, Tribeca All Access. Bio to come.

Register HERE.