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