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“Digital has brought disruption to documentary. Radically new forms are emerging requiring new teams and skills. The market is changing. The audience is changing. But documentary has been a fluid form – reinvented by generations of producers taking advantage of … Continue reading →

During registration you will receive an information pack with delegate biographies and contact details. We’ve made a couple of minor tweaks to the programme – here to download as a PDF:  Symposium Programme Kim Longinotto’s Masterclass for students takes place between … Continue reading →

We’re delighted that multi-award winning documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto will be joining us at the very beginning of the Symposium to give a Masterclass for students. Kim, pictured here on location in India for her recent film Salma will be sharing … Continue reading →

Barely a week before we kick off with the Symposium, let’s mention the highly influential  and sadly missed founder of the Stanford Documentary Programme, Henry Breitrose who passed away at the beginning of October. A long standing member of CILECT, … Continue reading →

We’ve tried to keep registrations for “Teaching Documentary” open as long as possible, but we have now simply run out of rooms at the Symposium hotel. We’re full! (Those are actually Brazilian football fans in Munich and no, there isn’t … Continue reading →

Symposium speaker Niels Pagh Andersen (Editor of “The Act of Killing”) on why documentary storytelling is changing http://tinyurl.com/pfzy4xr

For delegates wishing to stay on a day or two in Cardiff, there is the Wales vs. Australia rugby match at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday 8th November – but for those who have yet to register for the Symposium, this … Continue reading →

Part Two of the NFB blog post by Jovana Jankovic. Echoes of Victor Kossakovsky’s ten rules for documentary filmmaking – especially number nine: Documentary is the only art, where every aesthetic element almost always has ethical aspects and every ethical aspect … Continue reading →

Always an important issue for documentarians – blog post from the NFB by Jovana Jankovic