Event Recording
Description
Please join the SFFILM Makers team and filmmaker Carrie Lozano for a frank discussion about the current documentary funding landscape. Lozano will discuss the International Documentary Association’s fundraising strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic, and broadly answer funding questions.
This event is designed for filmmakers, and is open to current FilmHouse residents and grantees, and SFFILM members with the Filmmaker Add-On. Not yet a member? Join today!
Attendees who RSVP for this event will be sent a link via email one day in advance to register for the online session, which will be conducted with Zoom. We recommend that you download and install Zoom on your computer or mobile device in advance, and set yourself up with a free account. Attendees will have a chance to participate in the Q&A by sending in questions privately to our moderator. Registration closes around one hour before the start of the event — be sure to register early!
We look forward to continuing to experiment with virtual events like this in the coming weeks — let us know how it goes and how we can improve the experience!
Learn more about how to use Zoom and attending our virtual events here.
2020–21 support for SFFILM Makers is provided by
Carrie Lozano is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist. She is currently working as an editorial consultant for independent documentary filmmakers, facilitating the Bay Area Video Coalition’s National MediaMaker Fellowship, and consulting with the International Documentary Association to help identify ways to support filmmakers working in the journalism space. She was executive producer for documentaries at Al Jazeera America and senior producer of the network’s investigative series Fault Lines, where her team garnered numerous awards including an Emmy, a Peabody, and several Headliner Awards. Among other work, Lozano produced the Academy Award nominee The Weather Underground, which premiered at Sundance and aired on Independent Lens; and produced and directed the Student Academy Award winning film Reporter Zero, which aired on MTV LOGO and premiered at Berlin. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and was a post-graduate fellow with Lowell Bergman’s Investigative Reporting Program where she reported on PBS Frontline’s Black Money. She went on to develop best practices for collaborative investigative reporting and co-found Collabspace with MediaShift. She was Director of Operations for New Day Films, and serves on the boards of Swell Cinema and the Free History Project. Lozano’s most recent film, The Ballad of Fred Hersch, about a renowned jazz pianist, premiered at Full Frame in 2016.