IDA Seminar Series - Doc U: An Evening With R.J. Cutler

An Evening With Distinguished Filmmaker R.J. Cutler

Part of the 2009 Doc U Seminar series.

IDA is pleased to announce a special evening with filmmaker, R.J. Cutler who will discuss his latest film and share the story of his extraordinary success. Don't miss this chance to ask one of our community's most celebrated artists your questions about production and the art and business of documentary filmmaking and producing for television! You won't want to miss this fantastic opportunity.

R.J. Cutler is a director and producer of documentary films and television. Most recently, he directed and produced The September Issue, the feature documentary about legendary Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. The September Issue premiered in competition at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Cinematography. Currently playing in theaters around the world, the film enjoyed the fifth largest premiere is U.S. documentary history. Cutler began his career producing The War Room, the Oscar-nominated documentary about Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign for the presidency directed by D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus. Other projects include the films A Perfect Candidate and Thin and over twenty television series, including American High, 30 Days, Black White, Freshman Diaries, The Residents and Military Diaries. Cutler has won an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and a GLAAD Award and has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Producer's Guild Award and an Independent Spirit Award among others. This past year he received the Television Academy’s Honor Award for his work “creating television with a conscience.”

Eddie Schmidt (moderator) is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, writer/producer, and commentator, as well as the Board President of the International Documentary Association (IDA). Feature credits include producing & co-writing the acclaimed IFC documentary THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED, producing and shooting HBO's powerful TWIST OF FAITH (for which he was nominated for an Academy Award), and producing the groundbreaking teenage mosaic CHAIN CAMERA. All three films were released theatrically and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

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What:

Doc U: An Evening with R.J. Cutler

When:

Thursday, November 12, 2009
Doors open 6:00 p.m.
Seminar 7:00-9:30 p.m. (with brief intermission)

Where:

Kodak Screening Room
The Eastman Kodak Company
6700 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90038

Parking and light refreshments courtesy of The Eastman Kodak Company
(Entrance is 2 blocks east of Highland Ave. on Las Palmas)

Doc U is IDA's annual branded seminar series produced to enlighten and enliven our documentary community. Details about upcoming seminars with master filmmakers and documentary professionals to be announced.

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