Among the early stakeholders in your documentary career are your teachers—whether at the high school level, to provide that crucial early spark of
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Student interest in college courses focusing on documentary media has never been higher. Why? Certainly, "documenting" their lives via Instagram and
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By Steven Beer, Jake Levy and Neil Rosini To generate income and engage new audiences, documentary producers are increasingly turning to educational
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Documentary Media: History, Theory, Practice by Broderick Fox. Routledge 2018" src="https://www.documentary.org/sites/default/files/images/magazine
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"The dramatist, valuing the integrity and organic nature of struggle, treats the audience with respect and genuinely explores something. You can tell
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For any young aspiring filmmaker, entering the world of documentary can be a challenging endeavor. And if you're a person of color, or have limited
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The line that traditionally separated documentary filmmakers from journalists increasingly is becoming blurred, if not erased. As the disciplines
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Whether or not you grab Arabic booza from your local corner store, the summers in Beirut are still humid. Half a million people are finally out of
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Once considered the red-headed step-child of the academic film world, documentary has become popular in academia, where experience with nonfiction
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Thirteen years after Wesley Hogan received her doctorate degree in history from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, in 2000, she returned to