The Museum of Television & Radio’s

2002 Television Documentary Festival

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Wednesday, May 1 at 6:30 p.m.

OPENING SEMINAR

To Testify or to Sanitize: Portraying 9/11

In Person: Jon Alpert, Filmmaker; Alan Brinkley, Columbia University; Ric Burns, Filmmaker; David Fanning, Frontline; James Hanlon, Filmmaker; Lisa Heller, Original Programming, HBO; Gedeon Naudet, Filmmaker; Jules Naudet, Filmmaker

 

Thursday, May 2 at 6:30 p.m.

Inshallah: Diary of a Afghan Woman

In Person: Randall Scerbo, Producer/Director; Jonathan Stack, Executive Producer; Suraya Sadeed, Film Subject/Founder, Help the Afghan Children

 

Friday, May 3 at 6:30 p.m.

PREMIERE

Young Dr. Freud

In Person: David Grubin, Producer/Director; Dr. Martin Bergmann, Psychoanalyst; Dr. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Psychoanalyst

 

Saturday, May 4 at 2:00 p.m.

SEMINAR

Frontline: A Panel Discussion

In Person: Lowell Bergman, William Cran, Michael Kirk, Martin Smith

Saturday, May 4 at 4:00 p.m.

FRONTLINE RETROSPECTIVE

Ambush in Mogadishu (1998/2001; 60 minutes)

Hunting bin Laden (The Terrorist and the Superpower) (1999/2000; 60 minutes)

Sunday, May 5 at 4:00 p.m.

FRONTLINE RETROSPECTIVE

Israel: Between the River and the Sea (1983; 60 minutes)

The Arab and the Israeli (1984; 60 minutes)

 

Tuesday, May 7 at 6:30 p.m.

PREMIERE

Frontline: Muslims

In Person: Alvin H. Perlmutter, Executive Producer; Anisa Mehdi, Executive Producer; Graham Judd, Producer; Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Founder, American Sufi Muslim Association

 

Wednesday, May 8 at 4:00 p.m.

Docu-Jam: A Youth Documentary Showcase

·Screenings:

"2 Homes" (Global Action Project)

"Fenced Out" (F.I.E.R.C.E./The New Neutral Zone/Paper Tiger TV)

"Because of Oxycontin" (Appalshop)

"Dil Se: From the Heart" (Downtown Community Television Center)

"Cultural Drag" (MNN - The Youth Channel)

 

Wednesday, May 8 at 6:30 p.m.

PREMIERE

True Life: I’m Coming Out

In Person: Lucia Engstrom, Producer; Matt Beierschmitt, Film Subject; Coleen Beierschmitt, Film Subject; Kevin Jennings, GLSEN; Joel Relampagos, Film Subject

 

Thursday, May 9 at 6:30 p.m.

America Undercover: Telling Nicholas

In Person: James Ronald Whitney, Producer/Director; Thanbir Ahmed, Film Participant

 

Friday, May 10 at 6:30 p.m.

AMERICAN PREMIERE

McLuhan’s Wake

In Person: Kevin McMahon, Director; Paul Levinson, Author, Digital McLuhan; T. C. McLuhan, Author/Filmmaker; Gerald O’Grady, Scholar; David Sobelman, Writer

 

Saturday, May 11 at 4:00 p.m.

FRONTLINE RETROSPECTIVE

The Bombing of Pan Am 103 (1990; 60 minutes)

Looking for Answers (2001; 60 minutes)

Sunday, May 12 at 4:00 p.m.

FRONTLINE RETROSPECTIVE

Target America (2001; 60 minutes)

Gunning for Saddam (2001; 60 minutes)

 

Tuesday, May 14 at 6:30 p.m.

Into the Forbidden Zone and Through These Eyes

In Person: Sebastian Junger, Correspondent; Lawrence Cumbo, Producer; David Royle, Executive Producer

 

Wednesday, May 15 at 6:30 p.m.

PREMIERE

Peter Arnett: Afghan Journal

In Person: Peter Arnett, Chief Correspondent, Broadcast News Networks; Steven Rosenbaum, Executive Producer/President, Broadcast News Networks; Mark Cuban, Chairman and President, HDNet

 

Thursday, May 16 at 6:30 p.m.

Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero

In Person: Jon Alpert, Producer; Musada Sultan, Cofounder, Young Afghan-World Alliance; Tami Alpert, Associate Producer/Editor

 

 

Tickets

·Tickets for each Festival events (excluding the Frontline retrospective) are $10 each ($8 for Museum members) and $5 for students with valid ID. The series price for any three events is $24 ($18 for Museum members) and $12 for students.

·Tickets may be purchased in advance at the Museum’s front desk during regular Museum hours

or by calling the Museum at (212) 621-6600 Mondays to Fridays from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.

·Admission to the Frontline retrospective screenings is free with general Museum admission (Suggested contribution: Members free; $6 for adults; $4 for senior citizens and students; $3 for children under 13).

 

Programs and participants are subject to change. For up-to-the-minute Festival information call the Hotline at (212) 621-6699 or visit the Museum’s website at www.mtr.org/tvdocfest/

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