2014 KOPKIND / CID Filmmakers Retreat: Applications Open!

We are pleased to announce a call to independent documentary filmmakers who would like to participate in a week long seminar and retreat in southern Vermont. The Center for Independent Documentary and the Kopkind Center are sponsoring this week-long retreat limited to nine filmmakers along with special invited guests.

CLAMBAKE

CLAMBAKE, an exciting new documentary from award-winning filmmaker Andrea Meyerson, charts the growth of Women’s Week in Provincetown, from its inception to the exciting weeklong event it is today.

GOOD MORNING MISSION HILL

Combine progressive ideas with a supportive school community, then give the teachers the freedom to build their own curriculum, and watch an urban school population in Boston’s Roxbury flourish.

INSURRECTIONS

“Insurrections” examines the importance of ideas within the massive protest and social movements of recent years by engaging the foremost radical thinkers of our time and the new voices emerging from the movements themselves.

But with the fascination came questions: What do the protestors want? How do they intend to make it happen? Is there an ideology behind these insurrections, and what is their vision for a new world?

THE TACKLE GIRLS: One Team, One Mission

Now in post-production, THE TACKLE GIRLS: One Team One Mission is on track for completion in January 2014 and will host a private sneak preview in Times Square during Super Bowl Week.

President of Beauty: The Life and Times of Lester Young

The mission of this film is to present and preserve Lester Young’s legacy by rediscovering and interpreting his life through the lens of American culture. To inform a new generation who knows little of this time and the musicians who played jazz on the front lines of a battlefield that still burns.