BGuthrie Photos: AFI Silverdocs 2011 Conf -- Separated At Birth: Filmmakers and Journalists Working Together... And Apart

AFI Silverdocs 2011 Conf -- Separated At Birth: Filmmakers and Journalists Working Together... And Apart:

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Description of Pictures: SEPARATED AT BIRTH: FILMMAKERS AND JOURNALISTS WORKING TOGETHER… AND APART
Steve James’ film THE INTERRUPTERS was inspired by Alex Kotlowitz’s cover article for the New York Times, and together they worked to bring the story of three “violence interrupters” in Chicago to the screen. Amir Bar-Lev made his film THE TILLMAN STORY (Silverdocs 2010) as an attempt to get at the truth of a story that had been distorted by the military and misperceived by the public. These two filmmakers, along with journalists Alex Kotlowitz and Steve Coll, who broke the Tillman story in the Washington Post, will discuss the craft of filmmaking and compare it to the craft of writing, as well as the interplay between the media and documentary filmmakers as it relates to their bodies of work. How does the filmmaker’s task differ from the writer’s? What are the different tools and devices at their disposal? What are their limitations? Are their ethics similar? What can film achieve that a written narrative cannot, and vice-versa?

MODERATOR
Jacki Lyden, NPR Correspondent

PRESENTERS
Steve James, Filmmaker (HOOP DREAMS, STEVIE, AT THE DEATH HOUSE DOOR, THE INTERRUPTERS)
Alex Kotlowitz, Author and contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and public radio’s This American Life. His articles have also appeared in The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic and The New Republic
Amir Bar-Lev, Filmmaker (FIGHTER, MY KID COULD PAINT THAT, THE TILLMAN STORY)
Steve Coll, President of New America Foundation, a contributor at The New Yorker magazine. Foreign correspondent and senior editor at The Washington Post.

Curated by Alicia Sams, Director/Producer (OFF THE MENU: LAST DAYS AT CHASEN’S, TOOTS, ELECTION DAY, BY THE PEOPLE: THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA)

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1. SEPAR8_110622_001.JPG: Left to right: Steve Coll, Amir Ben-Lev, Alex Kotlowitz, Steve James, Jacki Lyden.
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- Bar-Lev, Amir appears on:
  - 2010_MD_Tillman_100626 AFI Silverdocs 2010 -- "Tillman Story" (w/Amir Bar-Lev)
  - 2010_MD_Persp_War_100625 AFI Silverdocs 2010 Conf -- Documentary Perspectives on War
- James, Steve appears on:
  - 2018_DC_James_180614 AFI Docs 2018 -- Guggenheim Symposium Honoring Steve James @ Natl Museum of American History
  - 2011_MD_Campfire_110624 AFI Silverdocs 2011 -- "Campfire Stories"
  - 2010_MD_Iverson_100329 AFI -- "No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson" (w/Steve James and panel)
- Lyden, Jacki appears on:
  - 2023_MD_North_Circular_230304 AFI -- Capital Irish Film Festival (2023) -- "North Circular" (w/Luke McManus)
  - 2023_MD_Cry_Granuiaile_230304 AFI -- Capital Irish Film Festival (2023) -- "The Cry Of Granuaile" (w/D�nal Foreman)
  - 2023_MD_Quiet_Girl2_230302 AFI -- Capital Irish Film Festival (2023) -- Reception after "The Quiet Girl"
  - 2022_DC_Maraniss_221201 Natl Archives -- David Maraniss ("Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe") w/Anita Thorpe and reception
  - 2022_DC_Pen_Faulkner_SOTU_221021 PEN/Faulkner's Literary State of the Union
  - 2017_DC_Simon_170510 Politics & Prose -- Scott Simon ("My Cubs: A Love Story")
  - 2014_DC_Lear_141013 Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Norman Lear ("Even This I Get To Experience") w/Jacki Lyden
2011 photos: Trips this year: Civil War Trust conferences (Savannah, GA, Chattanooga, TN), New Jersey over Memorial Day for my birthday (people never seem to visit New Jersey -- it's always just a pit stop on the way to New York. I thought I might as well spend a few days there. Despite some nice places, it still ended up a pit stop for me -- New York City was infinitely more interesting), my 6th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco). Ego strokes: Author photos that I took were used on two book jackets this year: Jason Emerson's book "The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow As Revealed by Her Own Letters" and Dennis L. Noble's "The U.S. Coast Guard's War on Human Smuggling." I also had a photo of Jason Stelter published in the Washington Examiner and a picture of Miss DC, Ashley Boalch, published in the Washington Post. Equipment this year: I mostly used the Fuji S100fs camera as well as two Nikon models -- the D90 and the new D7000. Mostly a toy, I also purchased a Fuji Real 3-D W3 camera, to try out 3-D photographs. I found it interesting although I don't see any real use for 3-D stills now. Given that many of the photos from the 1860s were in 3-D (including some of the more famous Civil War shots), it's odd to see it coming back. Number of photos taken this year: just over 390,000.
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