The activities of the newly opened Made in NY Media Center are beginning to come into focus, with the center now hosting a new three-day program aimed at helping filmmakers position viable documentary features for the big screen. Launched by Gotham nonrprofit Tribeca Film Institute and A+E Films, the TFI/A+E Films Feature Doc Storytelling Workshop will include master classes led by doc producer Simon Chinn, who picked up Oscars for “Man on Wire” and “Searching for Sugar Man.” Also part of the workshop is mentorship from industry pros — including Ross Kauffman (“Born Into Brothels”), Julie Goldman (“Buck”) and execs from TFI and A+E Films — as well as pitch training, screenings and networking opps.
Five filmmaking teams will participate in the workshop, which launches today and continues through Oct. 25. Among the projects being developed are Mohammed Ali Naqvi’s “Pride: Musharraf in Exile” (pictured, above); James Spione’s war-on-terror whistleblowers doc “Silenced”; “(T)error,” Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe’s look at an FBI counter-terror operation; Rachel Lears and Robin Blotnick’s “The Hand That Feeds,” about an undocumented worked struggling to change working conditions at a Gotham deli; and an untitled docu about transgender youth from Eric Juhola.
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