October 6,
2005
Paco de Onís and Peter Kinoy
"Fear, Truth and the Documentary"
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The Center is honored to host Paco de
Onís and Peter Kinoy,
makers of State of Fear, as its fall visiting filmmakers.
They will also be working with School of Communication students
and offering a public lecture. They are extraordinary exemplars
of documentarians with a social conscience.
 Paco
de Onís, producer of State
of Fear, is the founder of Minds
At Large LLC, a digital media studio based in New York. He has
produced television documentaries for PBS ("On Our Own Terms"
with Bill Moyers), National Geographic ("Secrets from the Grave"),
New York Times Television ("Police Force", "Paramedics"),
NBC ("TV Nation" with Michael Moore), and MSNBC ("Edgewise"
with John Hockenberry). "TV Nation" received an Emmy award
in 1995 for Outstanding Informational Series. He was also a news
producer for two internet companies, www.feedroom.com,
a broadband news delivery site, and www.starmedia.com,
a web site focused on Latin American affairs.
 Peter
Kinoy, a veteran producer and editor,
edited State of Fear. His earlier work includes Presumed Guilty,
about the role of Public Defenders in the U.S. criminal justice
system. His independent documentaries include When the Mountains
Tremble, which won a Special Jury Prize at The Sundance Film Festival,
and Teen Dreams (official Sundance selection 1995). With Pamela
Yates, Kinoy co-produced and edited Takeover (broadcast on PBS 1991)
and Poverty Outlaw (Official Sundance Selection 1997).
He was an editor on Michael Moore's
TV Nation, Louis Theroux's Weird Weekend, Trauma - Life in the ER,
and the Showtime documentary Brotherhood of Hate. Peter Kinoy has
taught editing at Columbia University. He is a member of The Media
College of the University of the Poor and also a member of The Writers
Guild, East.
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