DOC NYC America’s Largest Documentary Festival VISIONARIES TRIBUTE NOVEMBER 10, 2016 Is proud to support DOC NYC 2016 And to congratulate MOLLY Netflix congratulates THOMPSON the 2016 Visionaries On receiving Tribute Honorees THE LEADING LIGHT AWARD And for her work on JONATHAN DEMME STANLEY NELSON LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS DAWN PORTER THE ROBERT AND ANNE DREW AWARD A DOC NYC 2016 SHORTLIST FILM MOLLY THOMPSON THE LEADING LIGHT AWARD MAGNOLIA PICTURES CONGRATULATES THIS YEARS DOC NYC SHORTLIST NOMINEES AND VISIONARIES TRIBUTE HONOREES “You’re going to love it. What begins “Captivating and jaw-dropping.” as a profile of a quirky subculture – Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter becomes an online mystery-horror thriller, in which the bogeyman is everywhere.” “A must-see documentary. – Logan Hill, Esquire Tickled is not at all what it seems. A secret world full of villains “ Eye-popping. Countless twists and victims, power and deceit, and too juicy to spoil. It morphs from an offbeat shocks and surprises — you just caper to a disturbing exposé.” can’t make this stuff up.” – Nigel Smith, The Guardian – Kevin Polowy, Y a h o o M o v i e s TICKLED IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK. 5 GLEASON DIMENSIONS BUILT AT 100% VISIONARIES TRIBUTE CLIENT: AMAZON STUDIOS Bleed Size: 5.75" W x 8.75" H MECH 01 @ 300dpi AD AE PM AD CD Trim Size: 5.5" W x 8.5" H 10/24/16 THE REFINERY // 14455 VENTURA BLVD // SHERMAN OAKS CA 91423 (818) 843 0004 // WWW.THEREFINERYCREATIVE.COM // FAX (818) 843 0029 CONGRATULATES THE 2016 VISIONARIES TRIBUTE HONOREES VISIONARIES TRIBUTE -AND- Thursday, Nov 10, 2016 / Noon-2pm EZRA EDELMAN, LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS THE O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA TEAM Honoring individuals with a substantial body of work. Stanley Nelson • Jonathan Demme AND ALL FILMAKERS ON THEIR SELECTION ROBERT & ANNE DREW AWARD FOR FOR THE DOC NYC SHORT LIST. DOCUMENTARY EXCELLENCE Honoring a mid-career filmmaker with a new project distinguished for its use of observational cinema. Dawn Porter LEADING LIGHT AWARD Honoring an individual making a critical contribution to documentary in a role other than as a filmmaker. Molly Thompson H OST COMMITTEE a film by ezra edelman Jon Alpert Nicholas Doob Gary Hustwit Bob Richman Amir Bar-Lev Heidi Ewing Ross Kauffman Robert Richter Joslyn Barnes Susan Froemke Barbara Kopple Richard Rowley Joe Berlinger Liz Garbus Tia Lessin Deborah Shaffer Rachel Boynton Alex Gibney Marc Levin Kirk Simon Nanette Burstein Rachel Grady Shola Lynch Ricki Stern Maro Chermayeff Thomas Allen Harris D.A. Pennebaker Robert Stone Christine Choy Chris Hegedus Frazer Pennebaker Annie Sundberg Marshall Curry Matthew Heineman Laura Poitras Jean Tsien Kate Davis Judith Helfand Sam Pollard Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Carl Deal Amy Hobby Kevin Rafferty Pamela Yates Visionaries Tribute is co-presented by: 7 – LeADING LIGHT AWARD – M OLLY thomPSON CONGRATULATES THE 2016 DOC NYC SHORT LIST HONOREES INCLUDING LIFE, ANIMATED. © 0309 reserved. All rights LLC. Networks, Television 2016 A&E Molly Thompson is Senior Vice President of Feature Films at A+E Studios. In 2005, she founded A+E Studios’ feature documentary production arm, A&E IndieFilms, which under her leadership has gained an unprecedented track record, garnering three Academy Award nominations for Cartel Land (2015), Jesus Camp (2006) and Murderball (2005), Sundance wins in several categories for Life, Animated (2016), Cartel Land (2015), The September Issue (2009) and American Teen (2008), along with hundreds of other awards and nominations. Thompson also serves as executive producer for documentaries produced under A+E Studios’ HISTORY Films banner, including Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon (2015), The Unknown Known (2013), No Place on Earth (2012) and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). 9 162980_CORP_VISIONARIES_CONGRATS_AD TRIM: 5.375” X 4.125” TRIM 5 – ROBERT & ANNE DREW AWARD FOR DOCUMEntaRY EXCELLENce – D AWN Porter 100 75 50 25 10 5 100 75 50 25 10 100 75 50 25 10 5 100 75 50 25 10 5 ©2016 DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS EXHIBITSCYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACKAUDIO FILM AWARDS CLASSES WRITING BOOKS EVENTS PHOTOGRAPHY Dawn Porter’s latest project, Trapped, explores the impact of laws that regulate abortion clinics in the South. The film coincides with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2016 decision to rule on a constitutional challenge to Texas’ HB 2 law, which places unprecedented restrictions on abortion providers in the state. Trapped premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where it won the Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking. Her documentary Gideon’s Army (2013) won the Sundance Film Festival Editing Award and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and an Emmy. The film broadcast on HBO in July 2013 and has been used to engage local communities about issues of indigent defense and socioeconomic influences on crime. Dawn’s other films include Spies of Mississippi (2014, PBS) and Rise: The Promise of My Brother’s Keeper, a documentary film chronicling President Obama’s program to help young men and boys of color succeed. The film aired nationally on The Discovery documentarystudies.duke.edu | @CDSDuke Channel and The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) in 2015. Proud Home of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, April 6–9, 2017 Image (detail) by Nadia Sablin, 2015 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography winner 11 CONDÉ NAST ENTERTAINMENT & THE NEW YORKER CONGRATULATE – LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD – SHORT SUBJECT DOCUMENTARY S TANLEY nelson Joe’s Violin Winner of Five 2016 Festival Awards Stanley Nelson is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, MacArthur “genius” Fellow, Directed and Produced by Kahane Cooperman | Produced by Raphaela Neihausen and member of the Academy of Motion Picture Art & Sciences. Nelson is the director of fourteen documentary features, including Freedom Riders, Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple and The Murder of Emmett Till. He is also co-founder of Firelight Media, which provides technical education, funding, and professional support to emerging documentarians. With eight of his films having TRAILERS premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and multiple industry awards to his credit, Nelson is acknowledged as one of the premier documentary filmmakers working today. In addition to co-founding the documentary production company Firelight Films with FEATURETTES Marcia Smith, Nelson is also the co-founder of Firelight Media, a non-profit organization that anchored by two key programs: the Producers’ Lab, which provides technical education and professional support to emerging documentarians; and the Community Engagement Division, which activates diverse audiences around social justice issues POSTERS using documentary film. FILMOGRAPHY The Black Panthers: Vanguard of Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Methadone: Curse or Cure (1994) DCPs the Revolution (2015) Your Voice (2005) Take Back the Courts (1995) Freedom Summer (2014) A Place of Our Own: Black Resorts and the African American Puerto Rico: A Right To Choose Jesse Owens (2013) (2004) (1994) Freedom Riders (2011) The Murder of Emmett Till (2003) Schools for a New Society (1993) Arise: The Battle Over Affirmative Running: The Campaign for City Freedom Bags (1990) CONGRATS TO Action (2010) Council (2002) Two Dollars and a Dream: The Wounded Knee (2009) Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in Story of Madame C. J. Walker and A’lelia Walker (1987) THE 2016 DOCNYC CNN Presents: High Stakes (2006) the Whirlwind (2000) Jonestown: The Life and Death of The Black Press: Soldiers Without VISIONARIES! People’s Temple (2006) Swords (1999) 13 – LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD – J ONATHAN DEMME LIGHTHOUSE VISIONARIES TRIBUTE INTERNATIONAL and PRODUCER FILM FESTIVAL Eric Johnson SALUTE THE 2016 HONOREES Jonathan Demme began his career as a writer and producer with Roger Corman in Stanley Nelson Dawn Porter 1971 and has directed and produced more than 40 movies since. His films have been nominated for 20 Academy Awards, including Beloved, Melvin and Howard, Philadelphia, Jonathan Demme Molly Thompson Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s Who Am I this Time?, Rachel Getting Married, The Manchurian Candidate, and Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Oscar for Best Director in 1991. and offer His documentaries and performance films include Cousin Bobby, The Agronomist, Haiti Dreams of Democracy, Stop Making Sense, Swimming to Cambodia, Neil Young Heart of SPECIAL CONGRATULATIONS Gold, Neil Young Trunk Show, Neil Young Journeys, Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains, I’m Carolyn Parker, The Good the Mad and the Beautiful, New Home Movies from the Lower TO PAST LIFF OPENING NIGHT FILMMAKERS 9th Ward, Tavis Smiley’s Been In the Storm Too Long and Enzo Avitabile Music Life. His most recent concert film is Justin Timberlake + his The Tennessee Kids that had its Kirsten Johnson Clay Tweel world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released by Netflix. ON THEIR DOC NYC SHORT LIST FILMS FILMOGRAPHY JT + the Tennessee Kids (2016) Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006) Haiti, Dreams of Democracy (1988) Ricki And The Flash (2015) The Manchurian Candidate (2004) Married to the Mob (1988) A Master Builder (2013) The Agronomist (2002) Swimming to Cambodia (1987) Enzo Avitabile Music Life (2012) The Truth About Charlie (2002) Something Wild (1986) Neil Young Journeys (2012) Beloved (1998) Accumulation with Talking A Gifted Man (2011) Storefront Hitchcock (1998) Plus Water Motor (1986) I’m Carolyn Parker: The Good, Subway Stories: Subway Car Swing Shift (1984) See you down the shore! the Mad, and the Beautiful (2011) to Hell (1997) Stop Making Sense (1984) Neil Young Trunk Show (2010) Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Lighthouse International Film Festival The Complex Sessions (1994) Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s “Who Am I Rachel Getting Married (2008) This Time?”, (1982) June 8-11, 2017 Philadelphia (1993) Jimmy Carter Man from Plains Melvin and Howard (1980) (2007) Cousin Bobby (1992) Right to Return: New Home Movies The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Long Beach Island, NJ Eric Johnson, from the Lower 9th Ward (2007) www.lighthousefilmfestival.org Executive Director 15 17 323 SIXTH AVE.