AFI Docs 2018 -- Guggenheim Symposium Honoring Steve James @ Natl Museum of American History:
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Description of Pictures: CHARLES GUGGENHEIM SYMPOSIUM HONORING STEVE JAMES
Interviewed by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Including The East Coast Premiere Of Episode One Of The Starz Original Docu-Series AMERICA TO ME
The AFI DOCS Charles Guggenheim Symposium honors masters of the non-fiction art form who inspire audiences by documenting and exploring the human experience. The Symposium takes place during the documentary festival and celebrates a master documentary filmmaker and their work.
AFI is proud to welcome Steve James to Washington, DC, as the 2018 Guggenheim honoree.
Steve James is one of the world's most remarkable living storytellers, known for his observant, civic-minded films tackling issues of race, class and communities in crisis. The acclaimed HOOP DREAMS (1994), about two inner-city teenagers with NBA ambitions, began his long and fruitful affiliation with Kartemquin Films. THE INTERRUPTERS (2011) follows the brave volunteers who put their lives on the line to stop gang violence. His Oscar-nominated ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL (2016) focuses on a familyrun Chinese-American bank scapegoated after the financial crisis. His latest project, AMERICA TO ME (2018), profiles a racially diverse Chicago high school that is still divided along economic lines.
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2018_DC_James_180614: AFI Docs 2018 -- Guggenheim Symposium Honoring Steve James @ Natl Museum of American History (72 photos from 2018)
2018_DC_Above_Beyond_180615: AFI Docs 2018 -- "Above And Beyond: NASA's Journey To Tomorrow" (w/Rory Kennedy, Charles Bolden, Ellen Stofan) @ National Air and Space Museum (67 photos from 2018)
2018_DC_Fourth_Estate_180515: AFI Docs 2018 -- "The Fourth Estate" (w/Liz Garbus, Jenny Carchman, Justin Wilkes, Elisabeth Bumiller, Peter Baker, Michael Shear) @ Naval Memorial (76 photos from 2018)
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JAMES_180614_005.JPG: Steve James, Michael Phillips
JAMES_180614_054.JPG: Bob Gazzale
JAMES_180614_165.JPG: Chaz Ebert, Roger Ebert's widow
JAMES_180614_281.JPG: Michael Phillips
JAMES_180614_299.JPG: Steve James
JAMES_180614_527.JPG: Chaz Ebert, Roger Ebert's widow
JAMES_180614_822.JPG: Aviva Kempner, Steve James
JAMES_180614_832.JPG: Aviva Kemper, Steve James, and filmmaker Abby Ginsburg
Abby Ginzberg
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Abby Ginzberg is an award-winning independent documentary film director and producer and founder of Ginzberg Productions. For the past 30 years, Ginzberg has been creating films that tackle discrimination and the legal profession.
She graduated from UC Hastings College of the Law in 1975, and taught at Boalt Hall School of Law from 1975 to 1976, and at New College School of Law from 1981 to 1985.
In 2005, Ginzberg released the documentary Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderon's American Journey, which focused on federal district judge Thelton Henderson. Another film, A Tale of Two Cities, discusses the difficulty of forming high-school education for disadvantaged juvenile youths. Her film, Doing Justice: The Life and Trials of Arthur Kinoy, won a number of awards.
She also co-directed a documentary for the Ford Foundation chronicling the life of anti-apartheid freedom fighter and former Constitutional Court judge Albie Sachs, who lost an arm and an eye in an attack by the South African security services in Mozambique in 1988. The film is entitled "Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa."
In 2015, Ginzberg collaborated with filmmaker Frank Dawson on Agents of Change, a documentary that covers the Civil Rights Movement and the creation of Ethnic studies departments at San Francisco State University and Cornell University.
Ginzberg is a member of Film Fatales women directors of independent film.
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2018 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences in Greenville, NC, Newport News, VA, and my farewell event with them in Chicago, IL (via sites in Louisville, KY, St. Louis, MO, and Toledo, OH),
three trips to New York City (including New York Comic-Con), and
my 13th consecutive trip to San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles).
Number of photos taken this year: about 535,000.