Filmmakers Panel with Pablo Alvarez-Mesa, Martin DiCicco, and Iva Radivojevic
Pablo Alvarez-Mesa Born in Medellin, Colombia, Pablo Alvarez Mesa‘s short films have played extensively at international film festivals including Sheffield, Hot Docs, Silverdocs, and RIDM. His last documentary, Jelena’s Song, won the Pierre and Yolanda Perrault award at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois in Montreal. His interest in documentary lies in the relationship between fact and fiction, between what is recalled and what is inevitably constructed. His short films all touch in one way or another issues of displacement, history and collective memory. Pablo now resides in Montreal, Quebec and holds a Film Production MFA from Concordia University.
Martin DiCicco is a director and cinematographer whose first feature All That Passes By Through a Window That Doesn't Open (2017) was supported by the Doha Film Institute, Cinereach and the Sundance Institute, and won the Regard Neuf prize at Visions du Reel and the Cinematic Vision award at the Camden International Film Festival.
Iva Radivojevic is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her films have screened at numerous film festivals including the New York Film Festival, SXSW, Rotterdam IFF, CPH:DOX, HotDocs, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), and were broadcast on PBS, Documentary Channel as well as the New York Times Op-Docs. She is the recipient of the 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2017 Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellowship, 2011, 2012, 2017 Princess Grace Special Project Award and Film Fellowship and was named one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine.
This event is part of the Testing the Limits of Documentary series exploring boundary-pushing documentary practice in the United States, through a series of immersive exchanges between Skidmore students and prominent leaders in the field of documentary arts. The series is sponsored as part of Cecilia Aldarondo’s spring 2018 IdeaLab course, Testing the Limits of Documentary Practice and MDOCS.