article_snippet: Maysles' poses for a portrait during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival (file photo)
article_snippet: Maysles documentary of the fashion icon Iris Apfel, Iris, is to be released in April.
article_snippet: Earlier this week, the Tribeca Film Festival announced that In Transit, a documentary Maysles co-directed about the longest train route in the U.S., will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. '
article_snippet: President Barack Obama awards the 2013 National Medal of Arts to filmmaker Maysles .
article_snippet: Any work of art is a combination of objective and subjective,' Maysles once told The New York Times in response to those criticisms. '
article_snippet: In 2006, Maysles founded the non-profit Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem. '
article_snippet: In 2007, Maysles and Antonio Ferrera made The Gates about Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Central Park project.
article_snippet: Last July, President Barack Obama awarded Maysles the National Medal of Arts, honoring President Barack Obama six decades of filmmaking.
article_snippet: Said President Barack Obama: 'By capturing raw emotions and representations, President Barack Obama work reflects the unfiltered truths of our shared humanity.'