THIRD PARTY FILMS
When a robot kills a human, who takes the blame?
The Truth About Killer Robots premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival and is available now on HBO.
Third Party Films premiered its latest documentary, Clínica de Migrantes, at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina in April, where it received the Jury Award for Best Short.
Here's what the Jury said about Clínica de Migrantes:
“With extraordinary access and moving vérité footage, Clínica de Migrantes tells the powerful story of what happens when undocumented immigrants are denied basic human rights. The film takes us on an emotional journey with the staff and patients at a volunteer-run clinic where undocumented immigrants receive medical care, and addresses a critical issue in a way that is so human and real that we unanimously agreed it must be awarded this year’s Best Short Award.”
Clínica de Migrantes: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness received the Norman Vaughan Indomitable Spirit Award at the Telluride Mountainfilm festival. Read more about the award at http://www.mountainfilm.org/festival/awards/2016-norman-vaughan-indomitable-spirit-award.
Maxim Pozdorovkin is an award-winning director and producer based in New York City. He is the director of five feature-length documentaries and numerous short films, including The Truth About Killer Robots, Our New President, The Notorious Mr. Bout, Pussy Riot: a Punk Prayer, and Capital. Maxim holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and was a junior fellow at Harvard's Society of Fellows.
Joe Bender is an award-winning producer and Director of Photography whose work spans all aspects of creative documentary. He most recently produced the animated feature documentary The Conspiracy. As DP, he most recently lensed Persona (CNN Films), shot and produced The Truth About Killer Robots (HBO), and filmed The Candidates, which premiered at DOC NYC. He produced the Sundance award-winning Our New President (2018) and was named among DOC NYC's 40 under 40 (2018). Other recent work as Director of Photography appears in documentary films and series for Netflix, HBO, National Geographic, and PBS, and commercial work for Hewlett Packard, among others. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Matvey Kulakov is an award-winning editor and composer. His first feature, Our New President, premiered at Sundance 2018 where it won a Special Jury Award for Editing. As a member of The Presidential Band, he scored both Our New President and The Truth About Killer Robots (TIFF 2018).
Iari Varriale is a Brooklyn-based editor and cinematographer, whose work spans the breadth of creative documentary filmmaking. He is drawn to the poetic potential of science, and he aspires to craft documentaries that explore the ethereal landscapes of neuroscience, the tangible wonders of organic chemistry, and the harmonious blend of technology and art.
His works have appeared on Netflix, and premiered at DOC NYC and True/False, including screenings at other prestigious festivals. His commercial clients include the multinational Alibaba.com and the global sporting company Decathlon.
Iari was a 2020-2021 Union Docs Fellow, an organization dedicated to fostering the creation, exhibition, and study of documentary films. He is an active member of the Alliance of Documentary Editors - a network of artists with more than a thousand members worldwide - where he serves on the Budget and Finance Committee.
He holds an MSc in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Pisa, Italy, and an MA in Documentary Film from Tallinn University, Estonia.
His works can be seen at: iarivarriale.com
Jeanne worked with Third Party Films on the HBO short Clínica de Migrantes and the Pussy Riot music video I Can't Breathe. She edited Tim Sutton's narrative Dark Night, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was an additional editor for Joshua Z. Weinstein's Menashe (Sundance 2017) and Sebastián Silva's Nasty Baby (Sundance 2015). Short film credits include Sebastián Silva's Dolfun and Terence Nance's Jimi Could Have Fallen From The Sky.
Dasha Bough is a Brooklyn-based animator who specializes in charcoal, stop motion, digital hand-drawn, and sand animation. Most recently, she worked as lead storyboard artist and illustrator on the animated opening title sequence for Emmy-nominated series Mrs. America (Hulu). A classically trained artist, Dasha studied etching, drawing, watercolors, and oil painting under Konstantin Grachev and Maksim Razdoburdin at the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts. Bough studied Slavic Studies and Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard College. Her work can be viewed at: dashabough.com.
