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    Friday, Jun 5 - 7:00pm

    Emergent City

    With Kelly Anderson, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg & Brenda Àvila-Hanna

    A screening and conversation about the inception of the film.

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    Saturday, Jun 6 - 11:00am

    Documentary Fundamentals:
    Researching, Development & Financing

    With Kelly Anderson, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg & Stephen Maing

    This session is all about researching, developing and financing your next documentary.

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    Saturday, Jun 6 - 2:00pm

    Documentary Fundamentals:
    Observation, Interviews and Cinematography

    With Kelly Anderson, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg & Sean Hanley

    This session covers building the visual world of your documentary.

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    Saturday, Jun 6 - 4:00pm

    Documentary Fundamentals:
    Access & Working in the Field

    With Kelly Anderson, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg, Betty Yu & Alex Mallis

    This session covers the ins and outs of managing access to the spaces and participants, the film documents, and the complexities of working in the field. 

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    Sunday, Jun 7 - 2:00pm

    Documentary Fundamentals: Editing, Music & Sound

    With Kelly Anderson, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg, Gisela Fullà-Silvestre & Zara Serabian-Arthur

    This session covers the essentials of editing, music & sound.

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    Sunday, Jun 7 - 4:00pm

    Documentary Fundamentals:
    Festival Strategy, Distribution & Impact

    With Kelly Anderson, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg, Sylvia Savadjian & Robert Salyer

    This session covers the ins and outs of releasing and publicising your next documentary.

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    Workshops & Labs

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    Friday, Jun 5 - Sunday, Jun 7

    Documentary Fundamentals 2026: Emergent City

    With Kelly Anderson, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg and the team from Emergent City

    The fundamentals documentarians need to understand to plan, produce, and release an independent documentary today.

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    Friday, Jun 26 - Sunday, Jun 28

    Embracing Adrift:
    The Documentary Travelogue

    With Jean-Jacques Martinod, Antes Muerto Cine & Tiffany Sia

    Looking anew at the documentary travelogue as a speculative, political, and poetic form.

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    Wednesday, Sep 16 - Wednesday, Dec 16

    Audio & Performance Lab

    Apply by June 7

    An exploratory new program for sound-based artists to collaboratively develop performative short works.

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    Tuesday, Oct 6 - Wednesday, Jun 16

    UnionDocs Collaborative Studio

    Apply by Jun 21

    A program on the theory and practice of documentary art.

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    Productions

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    Artistic Differences

    A new Break ꩜ut that asks how we can generate a public space for a better conversation around documentary film.

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    Break Out 2022

    A symposium of sorts exploring the research of the UNDO fellows

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    Carceral Screens and the Abolitionist Imagination

    The UnionDocs Collaborative examines, contextualizes and dismantles scripts of the carceral state from the archives of popular culture.

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    Feral Domesticity

    an exploration by the 2021 Collaborative Studio

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    Break Out 2021

    a symposium (of sorts)

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    COLAB 2020: Unmute Please

    Six Short films made by the 2020 Collaborative Studio.

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    COLAB 2019: Take The L

    Short Docs Lost on NYC Transit

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    Sanctuary City

    8 SHORT FILMS MADE BY THE 2018 COLLABORATIVE STUDIO

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    Say Something Bunny!

    An immersive performance based on an unforgettable amateur audio recording made over 60 years ago.

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    COLAB 2016: Just To Get By

    Short films made by the 2016 Collaborative Studio.

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    Living Los Sures

    An expansive documentary project about the Southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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    Documenting Mythologies

    A simple escape from the city becomes the frame for a series of collaborative video essays.

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    Inductive Thread

    An investigation of myth in contemporary society

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    The Commons Berlin

    The Commons describes the space where private spheres intersect - where the relationship of the one to the many, the individual to the collective, is negotiated.

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    The Commons Radio

    A monthly series broadcast on WKCR 89.9 fm in 2005.

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    Films

    Tune into films from visionary artists pushing nonfiction forward

    Browse our collection of films from adventurous artists who redefine the real.

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    Workshops

    Hands-on skills and fresh approaches to spark your next project

    In depth sessions with artists pushing the boundaries of documentary practice

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    Conversations & Events

    Inspiring encounters and fresh perspectives, straight from UNDO HQ

    Highlights from our in person events, tune into fascinating conversations around nonfiction work.

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    Practice Thing

    A generative ritual to help you get unstuck in your creative practice

    A few tips and tricks from those who are inspiring us at UnionDocs!

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    Peek in the window of our bustling building in NYC and tune into the ideas and energy bubbling up from the UNDO Center.

    Tune into cutting-edge, powerful and poetic documentary programs and connect to conversations with the artists and thinkers passing through.

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    News
    • The Palestine Film Fund is accepting applications 'til May 24!
    • The Grierson Documentary Awards is accepting entries 'til May 22!
    • Interaction Doc Workshop 2026 is accepting applications 'til May 20!
    • CoLAB alum Irene Bartolomé’s Dream of Another Summer wins the Next Wave award at CPH:DOX!
    • CoLAB alum Shawn Wen's new podcast Foundering: The Killing of Bob Lee is now streaming!
    • The 2026 Gotham Week Project Market is accepting applications 'til May 7!
    • James N. Kienitz Wilkins opens First Look at MoMI with The Misconceived on Apr 23!
    • Chicken & Egg Films' (Egg)celerator Lab is accepting applications 'til April 29!
    • The Science New Wave Fund is accepting applications 'til April 15!
    • The Sandbox Fund from the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund is accepting applications 'til April 13!
    • The Edinburgh Pitch 2026 is accepting applications 'til March 22!
    • Applications for the 2026 SFFILM Documentary Film Fund are open 'til July 7!
    • UnionDocs is part of Art House New York's Cinema Week: a city-wide celebration of independent cinemas, running March 20 — 26!
    • The 2027 Creative Capital Open Call is accepting applications 'til April 2!

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