Filmmakers’ Panel featuring Grace Andriette, Dorothea Braemer, Paulette Moore, and Yoruba Richen
Yoruba Richen
Yoruba Richen is a documentary filmmaker who has directed and produced films in the U.S. and abroad including Africa, South America and Southeast Asia. She was previously an associate producer for the investigative unit of ABC News as well as a producer for the independent news program Democracy Now. Yoruba teaches documentary film at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and is a Guggenheim Fellow. Her latest film, The New Black, premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and won Audience Awards at AFI Docs, Philly Q Fest and Frameline LGBT Film Festival . It also played on Independent Lens. Yoruba has received numerous grants including from ITVS, The Sundance Documentary Fund, Chicken & Egg Pictures, and the Ford Foundation. She won the Creative Promise Award at Tribeca All Access and was also a Sundance producers’ fellow.
Dorothea Braemer - Searching for Paradise (2016), 30 min.
“Searching for Paradise” is a 30-min. documentary about three pioneering art initiatives in rural Brandenburg, Germany. Sometimes named “space pioneers” for their innovative use of neglected land, the people who are part of these initiatives are, the film argues, important catalysts for cultural innovation and social change. The original meaning of the word paradise is garden. The search for paradise is not so much a search for something new as it is the act of transforming and redefining already existing but often ignored realities and spaces. Searching for Paradise was created in collaboration with the Department of Arts Management at the University of Applied Science in Potsdam, Germany, and was funded by a Fulbright Senior Lecture Award.
Born in Starnberg, Bavaria and based in Buffalo, N.Y., Dorothea Braemer has been active in the U.S. alternative media scene since the 1990s. An award-winning film and video maker and the former executive director of the media access center Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources, Braemer’s work as a filmmaker, educator, and arts advocate is informed by her own experience and active participation in the various communities of which she is a part. Braemer has an MFA from the Department of Film Media Arts at Temple University. While in Philadelphia she became an active producer and director with the award-winning media collective Termite TV. Her video projects and installations explore such themes as family, cultural displacement, and community activism, often incorporating wry humor. In 2013 Braemer was featured in the 55th Venice Biennale.
Paulette Marian Moore
Paulette Marian Moore is a Kanien'kehaka (Mohawk) of mixed Native and British heritage and an enrolled member of Six Nations of the Grand Reserve in Ontario, Canada. is a graduate of Buffalo State College (Journalism, 1986) and has 20 years of experience as a director, producer, writer, photographer, and editor of non-fiction films. Paulette has developed and created works for major U.S. and international cable and broadcast entities and agencies, including National Geographic, Discovery Channel, PBS, the World Bank, and the United Nations Refugee Agency. In 2004 Moore began making independent community-based,films Currently a doctoral student, Paulette is an associate professor of the Practice of Media Arts and Peacebuilding at the Eastern Mennonite University Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. She also serves as Digital Media Consultant for the United Nations Refugee Agency.