Art of the Real Apr 17

Filmmaker in person!

Partially deaf filmmaker Lindsey Dryden explores the relationship of sound and the non-hearing world in the stories of three deaf people who strive to have music in their lives. Film is subtitled. An ASL interpreter will be present for the Q&A.

Directors John Kirby and Robbie Gemmel in person! Tickets on sale October 25. 

Filmmakers John Kirby and Robbie Gemmel untangle the threads and put 10 years of arguments into clear perspective in this documentary chronicle of America’s first proposed offshore wind farm.

Director Roger Weisberg in person!

As rising health care costs threaten to bankrupt the country, this candid and revealing documentary tackles the medical, ethical and financial challenges of containing runaway health care spending.

Work in progress screening followed by a Q&A with director Jim Bruce, Jim Grant (Grant's Interest Rate Observer), and Richard Sylla (NYU's Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets)!

Jim Bruce’s engrossing documentary brings you behind the scenes in the decision-making processes of the Federal Reserve chairmen over the decades through extensive interviews with Fed officials, economists, historians and traders. After the 2008 financial crisis, has anything really changed?

Chef Andoni Luis Aduriz in person for Q&A moderated by Mitchell Davis of the James Beard Foundation!

A stunning documentary exploring the intersection gourmet cuisine and music, as musician Felipe Ugarte fuses original compositions to the culinary formulas of acclaimed Spanish chef Andoni Luis Aduriz.

Q&A with Jeremy Frindel, Krishna Das, Lama Surya Das, David Nichtern and Sharon Salzberg!

Krishna Das talks openly about his journey from depressed Long Island kid to internationally renowned spiritual teacher and chant singer. Featuring interviews with Ram Dass, Rick Rubin, Sharon Salzberg, Daniel Goleman and others, the film expresses the innate connection KD has with his guru, the people he meets and his growing fan base

Filmmakers in person!

In the slums of Calcutta, children fight for their future with the help of a former attorney who empowers them to become agents for change. Together they challenge the notion that marginalization is written into their future.

Director Alex Rotaru in person for a Q&A following the show, along with some of the film's subjects!

A Shakespeare competition in Southern California that counts Kevin Spacey, Sally Field and others as alumni engages a multicultural mix of students, from gangbangers to Catholic high school girls, in team perfomances of the Bard’s plays. Director Alex Rotaru follows these students, many living on the edge, and discovers that theater can help to save lives. Proof positive that arts education is a necessity in the U.S., not a luxury. A Cinema Guild Release.

Filmmaker and adoptive parent Linda Goldstein Knowlton follows four all-American teenage girls adopted from China since its institution of a “one child” policy in 1989. Wise beyond their years, these young women grapple with complex issues of identity, belonging, race and gender as they look for their lost family histories. Filmmaker in person!

Director Tracy Christian in person for Q&A!

Orphaned children escape the perils of Nairobi street life and rediscover their spirit through the nurturing power of theater and the support of a special mentor.

Told with stunning footage shot clandestinely over a two-year period, They Call it Myanmar provides an astonishing and intimate look inside the second most isolated country on the planet, and a people held hostage by a brutal and superstitious military regime for 48 years. A revealing talk with Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Su Kyi is interwoven with extensive interviews and interactions with Burmese people from all around this wildly diverse nation.

Q&A with filmmakers Susan Froemke and Bob Eisenhardt!

Six years ago, visionary theater and film director Robert Lepage was invited by the Metropolitan Opera to take on the technical and aesthetic challenges of the Ring cycle, and Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Susan Froemke followed him on his quest. Wagner’s Dream examines Lepage’s artistic process, as well as the production team’s battles with the most ambitious staging in Met history, featuring a 90,000 pound computerized set known as “The Machine.”

Director Sasha Friedlander in person!

Deep in the rain forests of Eastern Java lies the active volcano, Kawah Ijen, where 500 sulfur miners carrying back-breaking loads, traverse treacherous terrain amidst spectacular vistas and toxic gases. This visually stunning and intimate film follows the lives of four of these miners, who risk their lives and health daily in an industry we rely on for rubber, sugar, matches and cosmetics.