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Introduced by Filmmaker Dana Flor
Friday, April 18
6:30
Dana Flor is a documentary director, producer, yeahand writer based in Washington D.C. Flor co-directed and produced the film CHECK IT, a feature length documentary about a black gay street gang in DC which premiered at Tribeca, as well as THE NINE LIVES OF MARION BARRY, a feature length documentary about the notorious mayor which appeared on HBO. She also wrote and directed the Emmy award-winning documentary LATINOS IN BEISBOL and the Emmy-nominated documentary CESAR CHAVEZ for NBC. She began her career as a news reporter and producer, working on a wide range of stories for Reuters Television, CNN, BBC, National Geographic, and others, covering breaking news in Latin America and around the world. Flor is a recipient of a Tribeca Film Institute Documentary Fund Grant, the DC Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship, a Pare Lorenz Fund Grant, and a AFI Docs/NBC Universal Impact Grant. She also won an Influence Film Award from the Tribeca Documentary Fund.
