Basil Tsiokos is a Documentary Programming Associate for the Sundance Film Festival, Shorts & Panel Programmer for DOC NYC, and a Consultant for filmmakers & film festivals. He is the Co-Producer of Cameron Yates’ feature documentary THE CANAL STREET MADAM (World Premiere, SXSW Competition 2010). Between 1996-2008, Basil was the Artistic & Executive Director of NewFest: The NY LGBT Film Festival. He has served on numerous film festival juries and panels, and is a regular contributor to Indiewire, where he serves as chief curator for Iw‘s curation of Hulu’s Documentaries page. Basil is also a Visiting Instructor at Pratt, teaching a course on film festivals and overseeing the work of the student organizers of the Wallabout Film Festival. He holds a Masters degree from New York University in Cinema Studies and completed his undergraduate work at Stanford University.
Hi, Storydoc is a training programme for development documentaries, based in Athens, Greece. Each year Storydoc organises three sessions in Ramallah- Palestine,Corfu-Greece and Athens. We collaborate with CoPro in Tel Aviv and in the sessions in Greece we host both Palestinians and Israelis among with greeks and other Mediterraneans documentarists.Head of studies is Tue Steen Muller and tutors are Peter Symes,Mikael Opstrup,Emma Davie, Ann Julienne,Stan Newman,Louis Rosen and others. We would like to be in touch.Best regards Kostas