Overview
Join us on Monday, June 21 at 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET for Creative Forces Online! This FREE event will feature special guests Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, who will discuss their careers, their filmmaking partnership, as well as their new project, LFG, which was shot on the Sony VENICE and will be having its world premiere at this year's Tribeca Festival. The stream will be hosted by Jeff Lee, AbelCine Director of Education, with time for Q&A throughout.
Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine are Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award-winning filmmakers. Critics have hailed their unique storytelling style as “unflinching”, “spirit-raising” and “visually ravishing.” The Fines' filmmaking collaboration started when they met while making films for National Geographic. In 2003, they married and started directing together. Additionally, Andrea is the writer and Sean is the cinematographer on all their films.
Their film, Inocente, a coming-of-age story about a homeless 15-year-old Latina artist, won the 2013 Oscar for Best Short Documentary. The Fines' HBO documentary feature, Life According to Sam, chronicles a family’s race against time to save their son from an extremely rare and fatal disease, debuted at Sundance, was shortlisted for the 2014 Academy Awards for Best Documentary and was also honored with a Peabody and Emmy Award that same year. The Fines first gained acclaim for their 2008 film, War/Dance, the inspiring story about the power of music to heal and transform the lives of children living in Uganda’s war zone. War/Dance won numerous awards including two Emmys for Best Documentary and Best Cinematography, the Sundance Film Festival’s award for Best Documentary Direction, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Most recently, the Fines have focused their storytelling style behind launching a social impact studio, Change Content. In addition, they are commercially represented by Interrogate. Their client list features incredible collaborations across brands like Gatorade, Gillette, Verizon, Tumi and Smithsonian, featuring such talents as Queen Latifah, Jamie Foxx, Lindsey Vonn and Constance Wu.
To learn more about Sean and Andrea's work, visit fine-films.com.
About Change Content
The Fines' new artist-driven production studio, Change Content, turns true stories into unforgettable film, television, and theatre works that illuminate, entertain, and inspire audiences to become agents of change. LFG, their film about the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team’s fight for equal pay will be released this Spring on HBO Max and CNN films. #LFGthemovie. Change Content is also partnering with A24 to direct and produce a doc feature on the U.S. transition of presidential power.
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