Judy Karp

Una ‘coincidencia’ alucinante que se remonta veinticinco años atrás finalmente lleva al director de la película a localizar a su clase de quinto curso (y al profesor del grupo), para ver qué recuerdan de un incidente de acoso escolar que tuvo lugar hace cincuenta años. De una manera lúdica pero emotiva al mismo tiempo, el cineasta comienza a comprender su complicidad en aquellos hechos y al acosador que todos llevamos dentro.

La inquietante historia del ejecutivo musical Drew Dixon mientras lidia con su decisión de convertirse en una de las primeras mujeres de color, a raíz de #MeToo, en presentarse y acusar públicamente al magnate del hip-hop Russell Simmons de conducta sexual inapropiada. Un examen apasionante y profundo de la raza, el género, la interseccionalidad y el precio que el abuso sexual tiene en los sobrevivientes y en la sociedad en general.

Con este retrato ingenioso, la directora Kirsten Johnson busca una manera de mantener vivo para siempre a su padre de 86 años. Utilizando la magia del cine y el humor negro de su familia, celebra los últimos años del Dr. Dick Johnson al escenificar fantasías de muerte y más. Juntos, papá e hija enfrentan la gran inevitabilidad que nos espera a todos.

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

The following roundtable conversation features director Kirsten Johnson along with documentary filmmaker Gini Reticker and sound recordists Wellington Bowler and Judy Karp, frequent collaborators of Jonhson’s whose work is featured in CAMERAPERSON. It was produced in 2016.

Work in progress.

Una mirada a los efectos del bullying cibernético en los adolescentes y su comunidad.

TRAP (Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers) laws have been passed by conservative state legislatures in the US and clinics have taken their fight to the courts. Follow the struggles of the clinic workers and lawyers who are on the front lines of a battle to keep abortion safe and legal for millions of American women.

The New Yorker is the benchmark for the single-panel cartoon. This light-hearted and sometimes poignant look at the art and humor of the iconic drawings shows why they have inspired and even baffled us for decades. Very Semi-Serious is a window into the minds of cartooning legends and hopefuls, including editor Bob Mankoff, shedding light onto how their humor evolves.

When filmmaker Kathy Leichter moved back into her childhood home after her mother's suicide, she discovered a hidden box of audiotapes. Sixteen years passed before she had the courage to delve into this trove, unearthing details that her mother had recorded about every aspect of her life from the challenges of her marriage to a State Senator, to her son’s estrangement, to her struggles with bipolar disorder. HERE ONE DAY is a visually arresting, emotionally candid film about a woman coping with mental illness, her relationships with her family, and the ripple effects of her suicide on those she loved.

Los cristianos evangélicos están llamando a una segunda revolución sexual, pero esta vez enfocada a la castidad. Contrarios a las actitudes y prácticas culturales actuales, se cree que hoy en día una de cada ocho mujeres de los Estados Unidos se ha comprometido a permanecer vírgenes hasta el matrimonio. Wilson, considerados los fundadores de la Purity Ball, la ceremonia de pureza entre padres e hijos, han llevado este concepto de integridad de cuerpo y mente un paso más lejos, incluso para el primer beso tendrán que esperar a llegar al altar. Este documental sigue durante dos años a los Wilson mientras algunos de los hijos se preparan para su particular visión sobre el amor y el matrimonio, a la espera de conocer a su princesa o príncipe prometido. En el proceso, surge una reflexión más amplia que advierte cómo la derecha religiosa está preparando a una generación de jóvenes vírgenes para encarnar una utopía evangélica en Estados Unidos.

Sixteen women who had been imprisoned and raped by Serb-led forces in Foca, Bosnia, testify in an international court of law.

At 31, filmmaker Joanna Rudnick faces an impossible decision: remove her breasts and ovaries or risk incredible odds of developing cancer. Armed with a genetic test result that leaves her vulnerable and confused, she balances dreams of having her own children with the unnerving reality that she is risking her life by holding on to her fertility.

A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

On a Friday evening, Manhattan gallery owner Jack meets Claire and Victoria on a Soho street and invites them up to his loft "to see his Max Ernst collages." What ensues is an unexpected and intimate exchange of secrets, dreams, and regrets between strangers.

Robert Castle is the idealistic pastor of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Harlem, and also the cousin of filmmaker Jonathan Demme. Demme's affectionate portrait of his cousin traces Castle's story, beginning with his first parish assignment, in New Jersey in the early 1960s, in an increasingly African-American-populated neighborhood rocked by violence and civil rights protests. The film raises intimate discussions of race, faith and family, while also showing Castle's daily routine as a pastor.

A man returns to his sublet apartment to find the previous tenants, three offbeat young women, still in residence, under the mistaken belief that they have the apartment until the end of New Year's Day.

The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.

Michael y Robert son una pareja gay de Nueva York que tiene que afrontar un reto importante: Robert ha de ir por motivos de trabajo a África por un periodo de dos años. Michael empieza a sospechar cuáles son los verdaderos motivos del viaje. Destaca la interpretación de Steve Buscemi como Nick, amigo de Michael y Robert, como un enfermo de sida.

Michael y Robert son una pareja gay de Nueva York que tiene que afrontar un reto importante: Robert ha de ir por motivos de trabajo a África por un periodo de dos años. Michael empieza a sospechar cuáles son los verdaderos motivos del viaje. Destaca la interpretación de Steve Buscemi como Nick, amigo de Michael y Robert, como un enfermo de sida.

Real life deprogrammers and ex-Moonies reenact one person’s journey into and out of the Unification Church in this compelling docudrama. Moonchild is an eye-opening glimpse of a religious cult from an insider’s point of view.