Film Consultant/Programmer
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Basil Tsiokos is a consultant for filmmakers and film festivals and a Documentary Programming Associate for the Sundance Film Festival. He is a regular contributor to Indiewire, often covering film festivals, and also serves as the publication's curator for Hulu's Documentaries page. As a visiting professor at Pratt, Basil teaches a course on film festivals and oversees students as they organize the Wallabout student short film festival. He co-produced the 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. Basil has served on numerous film festival juries and panels, including the Atlanta Film Festival, Atlantic Film Festival, Berlinale, Cleveland International Film Festival, Dallas International Film Festival, DOC NYC, Fantasia Film Festival, Full Frame, IDFA, International Film Festival Summit, LaCinemaFe, Lone Star International Film Festival, IFP, New York Film Festival, Outfest, Side-by-Side International Film Festival, Silverdocs, SXSW, and Starz Denver Film Festival. He can be found on Twitter as @1basil1 and on his blog http://WhatNotToDoc.com offering advice and information to filmmakers. Basil holds a Masters degree from New York University in Cinema Studies and two undergraduate degrees from Stanford University.