SR Socially Relevant Film Festival panels and workshops are free of charge and open to all filmmakers and members of the audience (as space permits). 

RSVP is required as in some cases space may be limited

When: March 18, 10:15-11:30am

Where: School of Visual Arts MFA Social Documentary Film Theater

Panelists:

Susan Margolin: Founder St. Marks Productions

Susan Margolin has built a reputation as a pioneer of digital distribution. Margolin recently launched St. Marks Productions, a production and distribution company. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of BAFTA NY, Chicken & Egg Pictures and Hamptons Take2 Documentary Film Festival and on the Advisory Board of New York Women in Film and Television.

Courtney Harge: Member Advisor Fractured Atlas

Courtney Harge is an arts administrator, fundraiser, entrepreneur, and director originally from Saginaw, MI. For the past six years, Courtney has worked in an administrative capacity for several NYC cultural institutions including Fractured Atlas. She is the founder and Producing Artistic Director of Colloquy Collective, an emerging theater company in Brooklyn, NY.

Debra Zimmerman: Executive Director, Women Make Movies

Debra Zimmerman has been the Executive Director of Women Make Movies since 1983.  She is a member of numerous Advisory Boards for many media organizations, a jury member for many international film festivals, and regularly sits on foundation and government funding panels.  She is the recipient of New York Women in Film and Television's Loreen Arbus Award and the Hot Doc's Doc Mogul Award.

Hayden Goldblatt: Counsel, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz law firm

Hayden Goldblatt focuses on motion picture, television, and digital media work and has wide-ranging experience in all areas of entertainment and media, representing producers, writers, directors, documentary filmmakers, actors, comedians, financiers, and independent distributors. He has negotiated complex single picture and slate multi-party financings both on behalf of producers and financiers, as well as structured hundred million dollar film funds.

Moderated by: Christopher Atamian: storyteller, journalist and director

Christopher Atamian is a New York-based storyteller (fiction, film, theater), journalist and director. He has received a 2015 Ellis Island NECO Award and the Tololyan Literary Prize. He was also a participant in the 2011 Venice Biennale as a video director and produced the 2006 OBIE Award-winning play Trouble in Paradise.