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Hansen Bursic

@hansenbursic.bsky.social

he/him | Doc Filmmaker and Journalist | Festival Director at Backyard Docs Film Festival | Writing in cinéSPEAK & Documentary Magazine | PGH & LA https://hansen.bursic.com

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Meet the VOW Storyteller Initiative Fellows - Voice of Witness Get to know VOW’s inaugural Storyteller Initiative Fellows. These narrative changemakers are working to document and uplift stories on water privatization, food sovereignty, and racial justice.

Honored to be selected as one of the inaugural @voiceofwitness.org Storyteller Initiative Fellows! 🎙️✨⁠
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I’m thrilled to develop the "Untitled Water Access Audio Documentary," a five-part podcast created in collaboration with @hansenbursic.bsky.social!

voiceofwitness.org/meet-the-vow...

19.03.2025 22:44 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Huge news! My film "Trans Heaven, Pennsylvania" has found its European premiere at BFI Flare, Europe’s largest LGBTQ+ film festival!

We will screen at the legendary BFI Southbank on March 20th and 21st in London. Get tickets and learn more here: whatson.bfi.org.uk/flare/Online...

19.02.2025 02:11 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

17.01.2025 17:40 — 👍 18607    🔁 8772    💬 735    📌 713

Job opportunity: @TheWrap is seeking a skilled and dynamic Business Editor to lead and expand its business coverage, delivering in-depth and industry-focused reporting.

09.01.2025 22:40 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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Proud to share that the Backyard Docs Film Festival had its most successful year to date in 2024! Thanks to the hard work of our team, we are now Pennsylvania's largest documentary film festival! I am so grateful to be a part of the magic in my first year as festival director.

24.12.2024 15:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Resistance Through Community': Backyard Docs Film Festival continues through Sunday - Pittsburgh Union Progress Backyard Docs Film Festival, which bills itself as Pennsylvania’s largest documentary film festival, opens Dec. 5, with a showing of “Union.” The Sundance Award-winning work by Brett Story and Stephen...

My first Backyard Docs Film Festival as Festival Director kicked off this week! I am so proud of what our team has built at what is now Pennsylvania's largest documentary film festival. This program is a love letter to the power and joy of communities here in the Rust Belt and Appalachia.

07.12.2024 14:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont...

It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.

26.11.2024 04:25 — 👍 13120    🔁 3497    💬 464    📌 257
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Such a honor to join this powerful class of innovators for DOC NYC’s 2024 Documentary New Leaders! It was inspiring to talk to so many young documentary filmmakers and thought leaders who are making our industry a better place.

You can read more about the program here: www.docnyc.net/new-leaders/

21.11.2024 23:01 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We made a Starter Pack featuring some of our favourite LGBTQ+ accounts we’ve found on @bsky.app so far. Let us know who we should add! go.bsky.app/Ky3rdw3 #queersky #lgbtqsky #TheQueerReview

18.11.2024 19:57 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

Another incredible feature of BlueSky, you can block en mass lists other creators make of right wing troll accounts. Just hit subscribe and block all. You’re welcome, and thank you @swordsjew.bsky.social!

19.11.2024 00:01 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have made a very rough and ready documentary starter pack.

Add to it!

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16.11.2024 11:48 — 👍 65    🔁 22    💬 34    📌 8

Thank you!

15.11.2024 17:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I have been blown away by the love our film has received so far! After our Frameline premiere, we've screened at 15+ festivals, won Best Documentary Short at ReelQ Pittsburgh, been covered by outlets like Variety, and will have our international premiere at Melbourne Queer Film Festival!

15.11.2024 17:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Documentary Workers Union Ratifies Groundbreaking Contract With International Documentary Associatio... Documentary Workers United has ratified its first ever contract with the International Documentary Association, after months of negotiations.

ICYMI - Documentary Workers United just ratified a historic, game changing contract at IDA! I spoke to Deadline about how important this is. I mean it when I say this contract is a blueprint for a more just and equitable industry.

28.07.2023 22:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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