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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

Sept 19, 2012: Mandy Rose (at her excellent collabdocs blog) comments on changes at the BBC concerning digital content – could it it become, as some commentators are wondering, the NFB of Europe? “From live output to living output” – changes at … Continue reading →

With the support of GEECT, the European grouping of CILECT, we’re planning to pick up the baton of the VISIONS project on teaching documentary filmmaking which had its inaugural sessions at the HFF in Babelsberg back in 1994. As well … Continue reading →