2013 Schedule

The Revolution Will Be Criticized: Do Critics Miss the Boat on Nonfiction FIlmmaking?

Documentary filmmaking has evolved in the past decade, but mainstream film criticism appears to hold an old lens to its eye in describing contemporary non-fiction film. This often results in the best work being ignored or misunderstood. What can be done to create a new critical language?

Revolving Doors

Directors of narrative features are increasingly telling non-fiction stories. What lessons from the feature world do these directors bring into their documentaries? What can the world of narrative features teach nonfiction filmmakers?

Military Secrets: Filming the Armed Forces

Among the most challenging worlds to puncture is the military with its famously secretive layers. Embedded or not, journalists and filmmakers have to navigate the ironclad chain of command.