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A DISCUSSION WITH ROGER ROSS WILLIAMS

09:30-11:00 Wednesday 22.03, Social Cinema, Kunsthal Charlottenborg

ROGER ROSS WILLIAMS is having a banner year with the release of a new TV series The 1619 Project (2023), on the Black American experience; his first fiction feature Cassandro (2023), in which Gael Garcia Bernal portrays the true story of the eponymous openly gay Lucha Libre wrestler; and a new feature documentary playing at CPH:DOX, Love to Love You, Donna Summer (2023), that’s an intimate profile of the singer, co-directed with her daughter Brooklyn Sudano. Williams will discuss how he navigated the different creative and logistic demands of these projects.

Roger Ross Williams

Filmmaker, USA

“Every film is Personal.” Award-wining director, producer and writer, Roger Ross Williams is the first African American director to win an Academy Award, with his short film Music by Prudence (2010). Williams’ award-winning work pushes the boundaries of culture and film. In 2021 Williams was named an Indiewire Influencer for “changing the face of documentary film.”

 

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11:30-13:00

Wednesday, March 22

DIALOGUES ON CRAFT

This session of DIALOGUES ON CRAFT brings together Jialing Zhang, Puk Damsgård and Søren Klovborg, to discuss their films selected in this edition of CPH:DOX.

DIALOGUES ON CRAFT takes place from Monday-Thursday, March 20-24.

15:00-15:15

Wednesdsay, March 22

RESPONDING TO PERMACRISIS

2020’s Word of the Year ‘Permacrisis’ reflects the sense of lurching from one trouble to another. The DocuMentality initative is running a thorough research on the disproportionate high levels of stress, depression and sense of powerlessness in the nonfiction industry.

FUTURE AT OUR FINGERTIPS takes place from Tuesday-Thursday, March 21-23.

15:15-16:15

Wednesday, March 22

SEEKING STABILITY

Given the role producers play in finding, shaping, and championing the voices of independent filmmakers, what structures do we need to ensure their own endurance?

FUTURE AT OUR FINGERTIPS takes place from Tuesday-Thursday, March 21-23.

15:00-15:15

Wednesday, March 22

NAVIGATING BUMPY ROADS

With the documentary film market increasingly shaped by commercial entertainment entities, how can independent filmmakers sustain themselves? What role can individuals, entities and documentaries have in navigating the challenging landscape of rapidly changing oportunities?

FUTURE AT OUR FINGERTIPS takes place from Tuesday-Thursday, March 21-23.