Documentary Studies: An Afternoon with John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson, playing at Cornell Cinema

John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson have produced films together for almost 20 years. Their documentary essays include Riding the Tiger; The World As We Know It; Empire of the Moon; and Wrong Place, Wrong Time, all of which have screened in festivals worldwide, including the Sundance Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Mannheim Film Festival, Mostra Internacional de Cine, Margaret Mead Film Festival, Stuttgart Filmwinter, and Ann Arbor Film Festival. Prior to their collaborative work, Samuelson made numerous other films, including Arthur and Lillie (co-producer/director), which was nominated for an Academy Award. She is also a professor at Stanford University, where she directs both the Documentary Film and Video Graduate Program and the Film and Media Studies Program. Haptas freelanced for many years as a location sound mixer on documentaries and now works as a documentary editor. The will present their latest award-winning collaboration, The Days and the Hours, which offers an intimate view of the experience of homelessness; screen work by students in the Graduate Program at Stanford and talk generally about the documentary field. Special thanks to Maya Haptas for organizing this program.