Through archival footage and interviews with Israeli military judges, prosecutors and legal advisors, The Law In These Parts directed by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz unravels an intricate system of military control that symbolizes one of the most enduring and damaging conflicts of our time. The legal framework of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories is revealed in painstaking and precise detail by its architects. From establishing settlements in an occupied area to dealing with torture in interrogations to rationalizing parallel legal systems for Palestinians and Israelis, The Law in These Parts explores some of Israel's basic moral quandaries.

Lewis Erskine is an award-winning editor of 30 documentaries including Freedom Riders, Free Angela and All Political Prisoners and most recently, Miles Davis: The Birth of Cool. This workshop will unpack how Erskine as an editor for over 25 years has shaped the many documentaries he has worked on. The class will also delve into the process of working with directors in shaping a story into a documentary.

Tina Morton is a media activist, documentarian, and an Associate Professor at Howard University. Her work began when she took classes at Scribe Video Center over two decades ago. Her first two films, The Dance in Aunt Ida Lee and Severed Souls are illustrative of her commitment to exploring and documenting family and oral histories in communities whose stories are often overlooked. Morton shares her talents by returning to work with Scribe to facilitate production on several community history documentaries. This sensitivity to finding and telling personal narratives is a common thread found throughout all of her work.

Created by Laura Poitras and Charlotte Cook, Field of Vision is a filmmaker-driven documentary initiative that commissions and creates original short-form nonfiction films about developing and ongoing stories from around the globe. This showcase of short documentaries informs, inspires, and illustrates the variety of ways that films can achieve Field of Vision’s investigative and journalistic objectives.  Presented by June Jennings, Impact and Partnership Manager at Field of Vision.

Studies have shown that a viewer will change a channel because of bad audio. This workshop will introduce you to the basics of the audio post-production process of sound design and sound mixing. Intended for first-time filmmakers.

The 14-Week Workshop covers all aspects of film and video production and supports participants in the completion of short projects. Many of this year’s participants are also members of Scribe’s Film Scholars Program, funded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The program consists of a series of short-form documentary videomaking training courses designed to support emerging filmmakers in completing new work. The 14 Week-Workshop is also supported by the National Endowment of the Arts.

The Imaginary Line by Paper Tiger TV, Marisa Holmes
The Imaginary Line captures the network of resistance at the U.S./Mexico border wall and offers a meditation on lines drawn by nations, communities, and ourselves.

Sanctuary Stories: A Collaborative Multimedia Storytelling Project by Ariel Goodman and Colorado’s Sanctuary leaders: Rosa Sabido, Sandra Lopez, Ingrid Encalada Latorre, and Araceli Velasquez
The project offers a portrait of countries of origin, stories of migration, growth as individuals and as activists, and perspectives on the system that confine them.

Join us for a discussion on the cinematic possibilities of video installation, media works that are created for a specific location. Acclaimed cinematographer, Bradford Young, best known for his work on such films as Selma, When They See Us, A Most Violent Year and Arrival, will discuss his technical and aesthetic approach to installation as well as the process of creating the newly commissioned work, Back and Song.

Join us for a hands-on workshop exploring different manual and digital animation techniques: stop motion using cut paper, drawings and mixed media as well as digital animation applications for computer and iPad.
For ages 10 -15.

THE WASHING SOCIETY by Lynne Sachs and Lizzie Olesker 
Inspired by To Joy My Freedom, author Tera Hunter’s depiction of the 1881 organization of African-American laundresses in Atlanta, The Washing Society brings us into NYC laundromats and the experiences of the people who work there.

YOUR DAY IS MY NIGHT (EXCERPT) by Lynne Sachs
Your Day Is My Night documents the lives of Chinese immigrants sharing a “shift-bed” apartment in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown.

The nature of documentary exploration relies on a keen sense of observation. This workshop will integrate this heightened awareness into a hybrid form of response and interpretation using performance as the foundation. Filmmaker, poet and 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, Lynne Sachs will discuss the aesthetic and conceptual challenges involved in creating a live documentary performance as well as strategies for working with observational video material in a mixed media theatrical setting.