Tomorrow, Friday, is the final day of the IFP Filmmaker Conference, and it’s both free and open to the general public. From 9:00AM until 10:30AM panelists will discuss issues surrounding fair use in documentary film, the limits of, benefits from, and restrictions around E&O insurance, and specific issues that have arisen in various docs having to do with fair use. It’s at the Puck Building in New York at Houston and Lafayette. Anybody working in documentary film today has to know about these issues.

Here’s the schedule:

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 21st – FAIR USE IN DOCUMENTARY FILM

FAIR USE 101 9:00 – 10:30AM
Michael Donaldson, Principal, Donaldson & Hart

E & O & YOU 11:00AM – 12:30PM
Peter Jaszi , Professor, Washington College of Law, American University
Debra Kozee, President, C&S Insurance

FILMMAKER FAIR USE ROUNDTABLE 1:00 – 2:30PM
Anthony Falzone, Executive Director, Stanford University’s Fair Use Project
Kirby Dick, Director, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
Alex Gibney, Director, ENRON: Smartest Guys In The Room, Taxi to the Dark Side
Lesli Klainburg, Director, Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema, Indie Sex: Censored
David Van Taylor, With God On Our Side, Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance vs. Judas Priest