Leaders from the international filmmaking community, prominent UN representatives, entrepreneurs, activists, journalists, economists, public policy makers, and NGOs discuss creative solutions to our global education crisis, specifically focusing on the UN’s Millennium Development Goal of achieving universal primary education.
Leaders from the international filmmaking community, prominent UN representatives, entrepreneurs, activists, journalists, economists, public policy makers, and NGOs discuss creative solutions to our global education crisis, specifically focusing on the UN’s Millennium Development Goal of achieving universal primary education.
Documentaries have an impact on policy, social issues – and the lives of the subjects that are captured on film. What are the ethics involved in shooting and promoting a documentary?
Can a film change the world? Documentary certainly has the power to inspire and effect social change, but how does this actually happen? Through the lens of her experience as EVP of Documentary at Participant Productions – where she shepherded last year’s Academy-award …
Filmmaker Conference 2009 – The Personal Documentary
How does a filmmaker navigate the creative and technical challenges of the personal documentary? Hear how successful directors and producers walked this fine line in preparing to share their stories and intimate details of their lives with audiences.
Filmmaker Conference 2009 – The Human Face of a Changing Economy
For so many, the manufacturing industry presented a path to the American dream, but the recent recession has amplified what is already well known – U.S. manufacturing jobs are becoming harder and harder to …
A forward thinking look at the landscape of documentary. What impact will new technologies continue to have on the genre? Where will we see documentaries have the biggest impact? How will we see the content of documentaries evolve? …
Filmmaker Conference 2008 – Working with Documentary Subjects
How does dialogue and interaction between the filmmakers and those in front of the lens shape the filmmaking process? Documentary makers and their on-screen subjects discuss the give and take of their non-fiction relationships.