Landfall
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UNTITLED PUERTO RICO DOCUMENTARY is a kaleidoscopic portrait of the aftermath of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico.
Cecilia Aldarondo
Director, Producer
Cecilia Aldarondo's feature documentary MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART debuted at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast nationally on POV in 2017. She is a 2017 Women at Sundance Fellow and was one of Filmmaker Magazine's ’25 New Faces of Independent Film’ in 2015. Her work has been supported by HBO, A&E Indie Films, the Sundance Institute, IFP, The MacDowell Colony, Jerome Foundation, and New York State Council for the Arts, among others. She is Assistant Professor of Film at Skidmore College.
Ines Hofmann Kanna
Producer
Ines Hofmann Kanna has been producing and directing film and television projects for over twenty years. She began her career at Boston’s PBS station, WGBH, where she worked on the hit series Antiques Roadshow. As a freelancer, she filmed in places as close as Iowa and as far as Yemen and Saudi Arabia. She was also a Supervising Producer at ITVS, guiding more than thirty filmmakers from production to broadcast, and acted as Series Producer on two ITVS series. For the past few years, she has been producing films with independent directors, including Sonia Kennebeck’s Emmy-nominated National Bird.
Laura Poitras
Executive Producer
Laura Poitras is a filmmaker and journalist. Her film CITIZENFOUR won an Oscar for best documentary, as well as awards from BAFTA, Independent Spirit Awards, and the Directors Guild of America. The first film in her post-9/11 trilogy, MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY, was nominated for an Oscar. The second film, THE OATH, was nominated for two Emmys. Her reporting on NSA surveillance received the George Polk Award for National Security journalism, and shared in the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service. Her most recent film, RISK premiered at the Cannes film festival in May 2016. She recently exhibited her first solo museum show at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Charlotte Cook
Executive Producer
Charlotte Cook is a curator, writer and producer. Prior to Field of Vision, she was the Director of Programming at Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival. In London, Charlotte was the Head of Film Programming at The Frontline Club. She has also worked with BBC Storyville, the Channel 4 BritDoc Foundation’s Puma Creative Catalyst Fund and the Edinburgh International Film Festival, where she curated the strand Conflict | Reportage. In addition to her work at Field of Vision, Charlotte is currently a programmer at CPH:DOX.