FILM:MAKERS IN DIALOGUE with Alina Simone & Shiori Ito

11:30-13:00 Tuesday 19.03, Social Cinema, Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Join us for a FILM:MAKERS IN DIALOGUE with journalist, filmmaker, activist and Time magazine most influential people (2020), Shiori Ito in conversation with author, documentary filmmaker and journalist (New York Times) Alina Simone. Drawing from personal experience and their most recent films Black Box Diaries (2024) and Black Snow (2024) they will discuss moving from journalism into the language of cinema as a prolongation of their multifaceted work.

speakers

Shiori Ito

Director, Japan

Shiori Ito is a journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker with a focus on gender-based human rights issues. For her contribution to Japan’s #MeToo movement, Time magazine listed her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2020. Black Box Diaries is her feature documentary

Alina Simone

Independent Filmmaker, Prettier in the Dark Productions, US/UA

Here is my bio: Alina Simone is a Ukrainian-born journalist and filmmaker whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian and The Atlantic, among many others. She is the recipient of the Andrew Berends Film Fellowship, a NYSCA/NYFA Film Fellowship and the Mountainfilm Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship. Black Snow is her first film.

Host

Wendy Mitchell

Festival Consultant, Moderator and Journalist, UK.

Wendy Mitchell is the festival producer of Sundance London and the Nordic and UK delegate for San Sebastian International Film Festival. She is also a journalist for Screen International and moderates at other events such as Goteborg Film Festival, Cannes Marche and Berlinale EFM.

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