Fall of Freedom — Under Pressure: How to Document “Unprecedented Times”

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Program 7:30p

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Ridgewood, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]How do documentary makers continue to work critically, responsibly, and safely in a rapidly shifting political landscape, and one that is increasingly threatening to those organizing and documenting on the ground?

Presented as part of Fall of Freedom, this conversation brings together filmmakers and collaborators Rachel Lauren Mueller and Laura Poitras, with radio producer and Radiolab creator Jad Abumrad to consider the practical and ethical questions facing political documentary in the United States today. 

Drawing from their experiences across on-the-ground organizing, investigative film, journalism, data, sound, and nonfiction storytelling they’ll discuss how makers navigate access and risk, protect sources and collaborators, safeguard their teams and materials, and think carefully about what it means to document politically sensitive subjects in a moment of heightened scrutiny, using Laura and Rachels’ recent collaboration on the documentary “They’re Here” about ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis, as a starting point. 

We’ll unfold a conversation about the infrastructures at play: technical, ethical, and communal that make rigorous and independent documentary work possible, and think through the practicalities of how we might strengthen them together.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_single_image image=”147742″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]

Watch the conversation between Presenter1, Presenter2 and Presenter 3 on the UnionDocs’ Membership hub.

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[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”165721″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Rachel Lauren Mueller is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, and cinematographer. Her work combines investigative journalism with an anthropological approach to illuminate the hidden structures shaping power, belief, and identity. Rachel’s award-winning work has been featured in The New York Times, PBS, and Al Jazeera.

Rachel Lauren Mueller creates immersive films that reveal how systems of power operate—and how people resist, adapt, and find meaning within them. Her work has examined abuse cover-ups in juvenile detention centers, white supremacist efforts to reshape small-town communities, the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities, the reimagining of religious rituals for queer people, and more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”165695″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Laura Poitras is an Oscar and Pulitzer Prize winning filmmaker and journalist.

Her most recent film, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, premiered at the Venice Film Festival where it won the Golden Lion, only the second documentary to win the top prize in the festival’s history. The film was nominated for an Academy Award, won an Independent Spirit Award, and was named b