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BIOS: LIVE VIRTUAL : Artistic Director and founder of , Gordon’s documentaries include , , The Last Pullman Workshops Car, Golub, , Vietnam, Long Time Coming, Stevie and . Recently he directed , A Documentary Writing with Mark Good Man and ‘63 Boycott, shortlisted for the Oscar. He was EP on , Monroe The Trials of Muhammad Ali, The Homestretch, Life Itself, and , and Oscar LIVE & FREE | Registration Required nominated Edith and Eddie, Abacus, and . Gordon helped create the Sat | Oct 10 | 10:30AM-12:00PM CST Documentary Filmmakers Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use and speaks on Public WGA winning writer and producer of two Academy Award-winning media, Fair Use, and documentary ethics. Documentaries for Best Documentary, The Cove and Icarus, Mark Monroe’s writing and producing credits span two decades and include BAFTA and Shuling Yong is a Singapore-born, GRAMMY winning films as well asThe Dissident that premiered at Sundance Chicago-based 2019. Founding member of Diamond Docs, film titles include: Leonardo maker, DP and Location Sound DiCaprio’s Before the Flood, Steven Spielberg’s Finding Oscar; Grammy Recordist with over a decade of winner, The Beatles: Eight Days A Week; The Game Changers, The Biggest experience. She has worked on films Little Farm, Racing Extinction, Dave Grohl’s Sound City, Fed Up, Ron Howard’s like Becoming (, 2020, dir. Luciano Pavarotti, Frank Marshall’s upcoming Bee Gees documentary for Nadia Hallgren), The Feeling of Being HBO, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, and Amy Poehler’s directorial Watched (Tribeca, 2018, dir. Assia debut documentary in the works about Lucille Ball. Boundaoui), And She Could Be Next (Tribeca, 2020, dir. Grace Lee and Marjan Safinia) and America To Me Documentary Cinematography with (Sundance, 2018, dir. Steve James). Her feature-length debut, Unteachable, a documentary following a young woman on a mission to bring empathy and Kirsten Johnson the joy of learning back into classrooms, was the first local film to win the Audience Choice Award at the 30th Singapore International Film Festival. LIVE & FREE | Registration Required Shuling’s debut short film,Growing Roots, premiered on the Discovery Channel in 2015. Shuling is a Kartemquin Films Diverse Voices in Docs Fellow, a Sat | Oct 17 | 10:30AM-12:00PM CST participant in the Doc Society Queer Impact Producers Lab, and was selected as an honoree for DOC NYC’s “40 Under 40” List 2019. Kirsten Johnson’s premiered at this year’s 2020 Sundance and won the Jury Prize for Innovation in Nonfiction Storytelling. Nausheen Dadabhoy, is a Pakistani-American director and cinematographer Her previous film, , named New York Times ‘Top Ten Films from California. As a cinematographer, Nausheen has lensed a number of of 2016’ was shortlisted for the Academy Award. Her short, THE ABOVE narrative and documentary films: The Remix: Hip Hop X Fashion (2019), which was nominated for the IDA’s ‘Best Short Award’ for 2016. Her camerawork premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and is currently streaming on Netflix; appears in Academy Award winner CITIZEN FOUR, Academy nominated La Femme et Le TGV (2016), a live-action short Oscar nominee; the Emmy , and Cannes Winner FAHRENHEIT 9/11. She’s been Award winning Armed with Faith (2018, additional cinematographer); Girl invited to join the American Society of Cinematographers and is one of the Unbound: War to Be Her (2016), which premiered at TIFF and aired on POV; 4% of women in their membership Conscience Point (2019), which aired on Independent Lens; and J’adore Nawal a short for HBO Documentaries (2018), which premiered at Sundance. Her directorial debut The Ground Beneath Their Feet (2014) premiered at IDFA. She is currently directing her second feature film,An Act of Worship, which has Production During a Pandemic received support from the Ford Foundation, IFP, Field of Vision, Hot Docs, Sundance, among others. LIVE Panel Tue | Oct 9 | Time TBD Avantika Nimbalker is a production sound mixer and sound designer with nine years of experience in documentary, narrative and Join us for an in-depth discussion on production during Covid-19. Featuring television. Her on-location mixing experience four intrepid individuals who are actively in production, the conversation includes a true-crime documentary by A+E will explore creative solutions in a constantly shifting landscape. With no Originals, The Kelly Clarkson Show for NBC aggregate for guidelines, fluctuating case numbers, and stories that urgently Universal, live shows for Food Network need to be told, this group will explore the ethical responsibility of filming in Live, podcast Chasing Cosby (Winner-Webby these challenging times. Award) and narrative A Period Piece (SXSW). Her post-production work ranges from sound MODERATOR: Jessie Fairbanks, Director of Programming, HSDFF designing for documentaries Coral Woman Gordon Quinn - Artistic Director, Kartemquin Films, Producer, (HSDFF (Winner-Tulum, Woodpecker and IMFF); The Alumni) First Move and Fearless to ADR supervision for Shuling Yong - Director of Cinematography and Sound Recordist narratives Ankhon Dekhi (Winner- Filmfare, Avantika Nimbalker - Editor Screen) and Zubaan. Avantika received her Nausheen Dadabhoy - Director and Cinematographer MFA in film sound from India’s premier film school, The Film and Television Institute of India in 2011. She is currently mixing a web series slated for release in December 2020.