A Conversation with Keri Putnam of the Sundance Institute
Series: Art Works Podcast
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Length: 00:25:45
Film Forward is an initiative of the Sundance Institute and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Arts. Now in its second year, Film Forward presents five American and five foreign films, both narrative and documentary, to audiences in the U.S. and abroad. Its aim is to enhance cross-cultural understanding, collaboration and dialogue. Through Film Forward, movie-goers engage with the filmmakers themselves during post-film talkbacks, roundtables, and workshops in places ranging from China, to the Chippewa Reservation in Northern Michigan, from Tennessee to the Ghetto Film School in the Bronx.
In May, half-way through its first year, the whole Film Forward team, including all ten of the directors came to Washington DC for a one-day, multi-venue screening of all 10 of the films on the National Mall. That’s when I had the chance to speak with Keri Putnam. She’s the executive director of all of the Sundance Institute’s programs, including Film Forward.Also in the Art Works Podcast series
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Film Forward is an initiative of the Sundance Institute and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Arts. Now in its second year, Film Forward presents five American and five foreign films, both narrative and documentary, to audiences in the U.S. and abroad. Its aim is to enhance cross-cultural understanding, collaboration and dialogue. Through Film Forward, movie-goers engage with the filmmakers themselves during post-film talkbacks, roundtables, and workshops in places ranging from China, to the Chippewa Reservation in Northern Michigan, from Tennessee to the Ghetto Film School in the Bronx.
In May, half-way through its first year, the whole Film Forward team, including all ten of the directors came to Washington DC for a one-day, multi-venue screening of all 10 of the films on the National Mall. That’s when I had the chance to speak with Keri Putnam. She’s the executive director of all of the Sundance Institute’s programs, including Film Forward.Transcript
Transcript of conversation with Keri Putnam, Executive Director of the Sundance Institute
Debra Granik: It helps me just at the very least to give meaning into my life as a filmmaker to use the terms that are at the core of Film Forward. The idea that there is cultural dialogue and there’s cultural dialogue and you don’t have to go far. You don’t have to go far. You can go to a different part of New York City and you can have students of color express wonderment and in some ways confusion that there are poor white Americans. And that’s already a bridge of something. That just eases up certain kinds of assumptions that are made about how things work in this country. Similarly, it was interesting to see the way that for example, the music of the Ozarks did seem to really compel and interest foreign audiences and that would make people in the Ozarks really delighted that people in A...
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