THE PRICE OF THE TICKET Introduced by filmmaker Karen Thorsen

Awardwinning author/filmmaker Karen Thorsen finds inspiration on the intersection of artwork and social justice. Her heroes are gamechangers, the artist/activists who form historical past; her movies inform tales with out narration, weaving firstperson narratives with archival treasures. Her first featurelength documentary as producer/director was the awardwinning JAMES BALDWIN: THE PRICE OF THE TICKET—with coproducers Invoice Miles & Douglas Okay. Dempsey, and govt producers Albert Maysles & Susan Lacy– for PBS/American Masters. Broadly thought of a traditional, the movie has been honored in twentyfive international locations and is a centerpiece of Thorsen’s nonprofit initiative, the JAMES BALDWIN PROJECT (JPB). In 2015, JBP launched a nationwide sequence of movie screenings, reside shows and public boards centered on inclusion, range and the which means of brotherhood. In 202425, JBP will have a good time the James Baldwin Centennial by exploring the theme Id, Then & Now, one group at a time.
 
Thorsen’s different latest tasks embody the playonfilm NICE MAN COMETH: a collaboration with Douglas Dempsey, Michael Tucker & Jill Eikenberry, introduced online by a sequence of theater corporations in 202122, and JOE PAPP IN FIVE ACTS—a featurelength portrait of the person behind New York’s Public Theater and free Shakespeare within the Park, coproduced/codirected by Tracie Holder & Karen Thorsen. At present in growth is Thorsen & Dempsey’s THOMAS PAINE: VOICE OF REVOLUTION.

Awardwinning author/filmmaker Karen Thorsen finds inspiration on the intersection of artwork and social justice. Her heroes are gamechangers, the artist/activists who form historical past; her movies inform tales with out narration, weaving firstperson narratives with archival treasures. Her first featurelength documentary as producer/director was the awardwinning JAMES BALDWIN: THE PRICE OF THE TICKET—with coproducers Invoice Miles & Douglas Okay. Dempsey, and govt producers Albert Maysles & Susan Lacy– for PBS/American Masters. Broadly thought of a traditional, the movie has been honored in twentyfive international locations and is a centerpiece of Thorsen’s nonprofit initiative, the JAMES BALDWIN PROJECT (JPB). In 2015, JBP launched a nationwide sequence of movie screenings, reside shows and public boards centered on inclusion, range and the which means of brotherhood. In 202425, JBP will have a good time the James Baldwin Centennial by exploring the theme Id, Then & Now, one group at a time.
 
Thorsen’s different latest tasks embody the playonfilm NICE MAN COMETH: a collaboration with Douglas Dempsey, Michael Tucker & Jill Eikenberry, introduced online by a sequence of theater corporations in 202122, and JOE PAPP IN FIVE ACTS—a featurelength portrait of the person behind New York’s Public Theater and free Shakespeare within the Park, coproduced/codirected by Tracie Holder & Karen Thorsen. At present in growth is Thorsen & Dempsey’s THOMAS PAINE: VOICE OF REVOLUTION.