Independent Filmmaker Project Selects 10 Documentaries for 2017 IFP Filmmaker Labs
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) announced the 10 documentaries selected for the 2017 IFP Filmmaker Labs, which will include Lucas Millard’s “Baato” and Juliane Dressner’s “Personal Statement.”
“The wide and continuing success of documentaries on multiple platforms demonstrate they are no longer for niche audiences nor uniform in style or format,” said Joana Vicente, Executive Director of IFP and the Made in NY Media Center.
Emerging non-fiction filmmakers need to be more prepared than ever to understand and compete in this expanding marketplace, and the Labs exist to help them build that foundation.
On the South Side of Chicago, an activist and a former gang member negotiate the meaning of community as a rail yard engulfs their neighborhood.
Karoline, Christine and Enoch are high school seniors who want to go to college, and they are determined to bring their friends with them.
Uncovering the vast audio-visual archive Sheila Turner-Seed produced, including lost interviews with iconic photographers, the film explores memory, legacy and stories left untold.
Against a backdrop of the global refugee crisis, the film intersects a departure and a return home through a distinctly intimate lens.
In 1992, a mysterious American named Georges Cardona shot Singapore’s first indie road movie with a clique of teenage female film geeks, including Sandi Tan, then absconded with all the footage!
In Beirut’s refugee camps, Syrian mothers, sisters, and wives process and express their circumstance by to standing up to patriarchal authority and performing an adaptation of Sophocles’ “Antigone.”