Low Cost / No Cost and the City
Christopher Allen, founder and director of UnionDocs, independent producer and new head of programming at UnionDocs, Steve Holmgren, Rich Siegmeister and Bob Morris of Reel13, and Keith Boynton and Mike Lavoie of 12films12weeks met at DCTV for a New York Film/Video Council discussion about low-cost filmmaking, exploring how filmmakers with low budgets can produce valuable work. Read moderator [...]
Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think
THIRTEEN visits the Scholastic Auditorium for a screening and discussion of Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think. The film from Unity Productions Foundation follows the international Gallup poll of Muslim opinion on matters from which their voices are often excluded. This event was sponsored by Intersections International, Change the Story, Americans for Informed [...]
Caroline Alexander – The War That Killed Achilles
The story of the Trojan War is immortalized in Homer’s epic of epic poems, The Iliad and brought to life in Caroline Alexander’s The War That Killed Achilles – a work that Ken Burns calls “a triumph.” Through the hero Achilles, The Iliad draws on the true nature of what it means to be a [...]
Commentary: The Author Series / The War That Killed Achilles
Sara Elliott Holliday, The New York Society Library THIRTEEN and The New York Society Library have four to six Author Series events a year since 1997. The lectures are created with the Patrons of these two instutions in mind, cultivating a large base of literate and socially conscious New Yorkers who make a focused and [...]
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Secrets of the Dead: Mumbai Massacre
THIRTEEN Forum presents New York’s best lectures, debates and conversations to the world. Covering a wide range of topics, from the arts to public affairs, THIRTEEN Forum is a one-stop library of enlightenment, a place where the brightest minds gather to share ideas and explore our world. Each event is recorded in HD video and [...]
Taped at The Jewish Theological Seminary, April 1, 2009 Speakers: Russell G. Pearce: Edward & Marilyn Bellet Professor of Legal Ethics, Morality, and Religion running time: 48 minutes 49 seconds Today, the legal profession faces a crisis of ethics and professionalism. Will the values that sustained lawyers in the past continue to support them, or [...]
Taped at Temple Israel, May 13, 2009 Speakers: Lynne Sharon Schwartz: Author: Not Now, Voyager running time: 1 hour 4 minutes Lynne Sharon Schwartz in Not Now, Voyager presents a provocative memoir exploring the meaning of travel—what we seek, what we find, and how we learn about who we really are. Schwartz, who has published [...]
Powering Up Cities for Plug-In Hybrids
Taped at The New York Academy of Sciences, January 21, 2009 Speakers: Mark Duvall: Director, Electric Transportation, Electric Power Research Institute Arthur Kressner: Director, Research and Development, Power Supply, Consolidated Edison Company of New York and Richard L. Drake, P.E.: Program Manager, Transportation & Power Systems, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority running [...]
