Internationally Acclaimed Documentarian to Teach Workshop for Videomaker
Gerard Ungerman, recognized by AFI, the American Film Institute, among others, for outstanding work in the world of documentary production, will be teaching the upcoming Documentary Production workshop for Videomaker at our headquarters in Chico California this March.
Pulling in such high-profile narrators such as John Hurt, Dustin Hoffman and Edward Asner, Ungerman’s films have been featured in many international festivals and have been broadcast all around the world.
Ungerman does his own fund-raising, allowing him to be completely free of outside influence in telling the stories.
Ungerman’s bio states: His belief is that true democratic media should not be controlled or filtered by powerful interest groups, be them commercial or political. Determination and skills learned along the way have allowed him to give high production value to otherwise low-budget projects and to bring international visibility and recognition to controversial stories that commercial news and entertainment would not touch.
Ungerman created his production company, Free Will Productions, in New York in 1995. Formerly a print-media journalist with a military background, Ungerman’s global travels have taken him to such places as the jungles of Peru and the oilfields of Iraq to find the truth about conditions in areas that aren’t covered by the mainstream media.
Among his recognitions are Sony “Visions of the U.S”. in 1996, Grand Prize at Cine Eco in Portugul in 2000 and “Best Enviro Feature” at ARTIVIST in 2009.
Ungerman’s Filmography:
Belonging (2008) [read more about "Belonging" here]
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror (2004)
Plan Colombia: Cashing in on the Drug War Failure (2002) [Read more about "Plan Colombia" here]
Sex, Ties & Lots of Video-Tape (2001)
Hidden Wars of Desert Storm (2000)
Confessions of a New York Call-Girl (1998)
Peru: Between the Hammer & The Anvil (1996)
Find out more about Ungerman’s production company Free Will Productions at www.freewillprod.com
There is still time to sign up for this 3-day extensive class on Documentary Production taking place March 19-21, 2010, but this class will be limited to just a few, due to the content size. Check out the details at: http://events.videomaker.com/
March 1st, 2010 at 2:08 am
Am JD Ongwen from Uganda. Nice for you to have such opportunity. But how about some of who will not be able to attend. Will there be a DVD of the workshop available for us?
March 3rd, 2010 at 12:19 pm
I was tentative about signing up till I hear who was teaching the class. I am driving down, living in Medford, Oregon just 4 hours North. I really look forward to this..
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Not yet, jdongwen, but we are planning to begin putting together webinars for our long-distance readers. Webinars are seminars on the web and we’ve been studying a few different types to see which best work for us and our audience. Stay tuned!
March 4th, 2010 at 8:33 am
we look forward to having you visit Videomaker headquarters!