Q&A Joe’s Violin filmmaker Kahane Cooperman with producer Raphaela Neihausen

Friday, Mar. 31 2017, 7:00

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Kahane Cooperman is a documentary filmmaker and television producer.  She directed and produced the 2016 Academy Award-nominated short documentary Joe’s Violin. Currently, she is the Executive Producer/Showrunner of the Untitled Holcomb Project, a non-fiction series for SundanceTV.  Prior, she was the Executive Producer and Showrunner of The New Yorker Presents, a series for Amazon Prime. From 2005-2015, she was Co-Executive Producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where she was originally hired as a field producer in 1996. For her work at the show, she received eleven Primetime Emmy awards and three Peabody awards. Kahane began her documentary career at Maysles Films in NYC. She directed and produced several documentaries prior to Joe's Violin including Cool Water (Sundance Film Festival) and Making Dazed about Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused, which was broadcast on AMC and acquired by the Criterion Collection.

Raphaela Neihausen is the founder and Executive Director of DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary film festival.  She is also Executive Director of Stranger than Fiction, a weekly series at IFC Center now its 11th year, described as “indispensable” (New York Magazine) and voted “NY’s best documentary programming” (Time Out New York).  She co-hosts WNYC's Doc of the Week and Executive Produces the podcast Pure Nonfiction.  From 2011 - 2014, she launched the Montclair Film Festival, as Executive Director.  Raphaela produced the award-winning and 2017 Oscar-nominated short documentary Joe’s Violin.