NeXt Doc Presents:

NeXt Doc Presents

Two Train Runnin' followed by Q + A with filmmaker, Sam Pollard: Friday May 13 '16

Evaporating Borders followed by Q + A with filmmaker, Iva Radivojevic: Saturday May 14 '16

At the Guggenhiem Pavilion, Carey Institute for Global Good 63 Huyck Road, Rensselaerville

Tickets + Times

Friday, Two Trains Runnin' - $10 / Doors at 6:30pm / Screening at 7pm / Q+A following

Saturday, Evaporating Borders - $10 / Doors at 6:30pm / Screening at 7pm / Q+A following

Friday + Saturday - $15 / Doors at 6:30pm / Screening at 7pm / Q+A following

Supporting Ticket - $35 / Friday + Saturday / Doors at 6:30pm / Screening at 7pm / Q+A following

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About NeXt Doc

NeXt Doc is a collaborative project of the Carey Institute for Global Good and YouthFX to cultivate the next generation of non-fiction visual storytellers. This year's presenting filmmakers include Sam Pollard and Iva Radivojevic. They have generously agreed to host a screening and Q+A for public audiences. Proceeds from tickets sales will be used to support the program. Purchase a "Supporting Ticket" to make a larger oontribution.

About the Films + Filmmakers

Two Trains Runnin’ (2016) 85 minutes

In the early 1960s, young blues aficionados caught up in the folk music revival began to ask, “Where are the people who made these early recordings?” The answer was down South. So begins a reach across racial and generational divides to find authentic roots music, an effort that continues to shape American culture. Set in the place and time of the “civil rights war” that was Mississippi, 1964, this story follows two separate groups of young white men as they search for country blues musicians Son House and Skip James, two older black men who have been “missing” for decades. These quests eventually lead House and James to the Newport Folk Festival and a secure place in American music history. Featuring artful animation and performances by Gary Clark Jr. and Lucinda Williams, the film skillfully interweaves these intricate and unheralded stories with one that is better known, the violent struggle for voting rights during Freedom Summer. “Outside agitators” looking for musicians and those trying to bring democracy to Mississippi were running on parallel tracks. Read more at http://www.twotrainsrunnin.com/#home.

Sam Pollard

Sam Pollard, Director, is one of the most respected names in the world of documentary cinema, the recipient of an Oscar nomination and multiple Emmy awards. He produced the HBO documentaries Four Little Girls, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, and If God is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise. Pollard directed the acclaimed documentary Slavery by Another Name, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and subsequently aired on PBS. He also directed four episodes of PBS’s American Masters--including, most recently, August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand--and two installments of the groundbreaking series Eyes on the Prize.

Evaporating Borders (2014) 73 Minutes

An essay in five parts, Evaporating Borders offers a series of vignettes, poetically guided by the filmmaker's curious eye and personal reflections. Through the people she encounters along the way, the film dissects the experience of asylum seekers in Cyprus : A PLO activist and exile from Iraq is denied asylum within 15 minutes; neo-nazi fundamentalists roam the streets in an attack on Muslim migrants; activists and academics organize an antifascist rally and clash with the neo-nazis; 195 migrants drown in the Mediterranean. Read more at www.evaporatingborders.com/.