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Finally, after much negotiation, we can confirm the new dates for the Symposium this Autumn: Wednesday 5th – Thursday 6th – Friday 7th November. The venue is still Cardiff and we will shortly issue an update with a call for … Continue reading →

Most of you who signed up for the symposium will already know the latest developments as we have contacted you by email, but the news is that circumstances beyond our control have meant that we have had to postpone the … Continue reading →

Just a quick message to say that although there hasn’t been much happening on this blog, we hope to issue an update soon – so watch this space. In the meantime, check out Thom Power’s response to Manohla Dargis on … Continue reading →

Another piece of good news – we’re delighted to report that the Bertha Foundation, which supports a variety of social justice causes and selected initiatives such as Britdoc –  has recently decided to give financial backing to the “Teaching Documentary” symposium. As the … Continue reading →

Crowdsourcing, High Definition, YouTube: the universe has changed massively since the most recent GEECT conference on documentary back in 2000. Twitter, Facebook, smartphones: our students certainly inhabit a very different world to the one we grew up in. But at … Continue reading →

A new article on the PBS / POV blog entitled “The Future of Documentary Education” takes a look at three new College Programs in the US: The Open Documentary Lab at MIT, the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke … Continue reading →

The UK’s National Film & TV School in Beaconsfield has always had a very high reputation for its documentary course, with a steady steam of graduates such as Nick Broomfield, Kim Longinotto, Molly Dineen and Sean McAllister to name but … Continue reading →

TEACHING DOCUMENTARY CONFERENCE – CARDIFF, SPRING 2014   Now that the dates have been finalised for the CILECT Congress in Buenos Aires for September 2013, we can now start planning the GEECT-supported conference on Teaching Documentary. After much discussion about available … Continue reading →

A welcome ruling in the US concerning copyright issues and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act [DMCA]. More commentary at the IDA website