If You Build It: Distribution and Exhibition Member Only

We live in an age of infinite content and radical disconnection. But in cities and towns from Los Angeles to Nairobi to Prague, filmmakers, festivals, and exhibition spaces are building rooms and pathways for publics to gather around documentary, cross-pollinate audiences, and create the kind of local trust that no algorithm can manufacture. This conversation brings together organizations doing exactly that: from a festival that has expanded human rights documentary into dozens of cities and with multiple offshoots around the world, to a Pan-African distribution company bringing African cinema back to the continent, to a scrappy worker-owned LA arthouse that survived an eviction and kept its doors open. The question isn't whether local community-building works. It's how to make it last.

Supported by Eventive

Moderator: Amy Hobby (Distribution Advocates)

Panelists: Ondrej Kamenicky (One World Festival), Peter Ambrosio (Lumiere Cinema), Chloe Genga (Bigger Motion)