Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Summer Documentary Camp 2011
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival kicked off its first-ever documentary summer camp for teens in 2011. A handpicked group of students from Southern High School in Durham, North Carolina, participated in a five-week workshop in which they made several short documentary films. The camp was led by award-winning filmmakers Nic Beery and Todd Tinkham. [...]
“Whiskey and Geography”: “Spirits of Just Men” Excerpts Featured on Southern Spaces
The online journal Southern Spaces, produced at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, recently published two excerpts from Charles Thompson’s new book, Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World. The first excerpt, a video produced by Marissa Katarina Bergmann, offers glimpses of modern-day Shooting Creek juxtaposed with [...]
Press Coverage for “American Studies: Photographs by Jim Dow”
Recent news and press coverage for the publication American Studies: Photographs by Jim Dow and the accompanying exhibition at Janet Borden Gallery in New York: “Jim Dow Hits the Road.” The New Yorker Photo Booth blog. Posted by Caroline Hirsch. July 26, 2011. “Only in America: Roadside Scenes.” Life online photo gallery. June 1, 2011. [...]
Full Frame 2011 Movies on the Lawn Summer Series
For the second year in a row, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is collaborating with American Tobacco to present Movies on the Lawn. This summer’s series features four music documentaries that will take you on a journey from music fan to concert goer to reminiscing with iconic songwriting legends. Screenings are free and open [...]
Accepting Applications—Master Class: Nonfiction Writing with Ted Conover, Roger Hodge, and Duncan Murrell
The Center for Documentary Studies is pleased to announced that National Book Critics Circle Award winner Ted Conover and former editor of Harper’s Magazine Roger Hodge will lead week-long workshops this summer in narrative nonfiction, journalism, and documentary writing. This is an unusual opportunity to work closely with two of our finest writers and editors [...]
Watch Videos from the 2011 Video Institute
Each summer the continuing education program at the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University develops an intensive video institute around a specific theme. In previous years topics have included democracy, environmental issues, and life a variety of Durham neighborhoods. This year CDS partnered with DurhamCares, a local faith-based nonprofit that helps to fund [...]
Full Frame Movies on the Lawn Screening: Troubadours
The Full Frame Movies on the Lawn series features four music documentaries that will take you on a journey from music fan to concert goer to reminiscing with iconic songwriting legends. Screenings are free and open to the public and begin at dusk (9 p.m.) on the main lawn at the American Tobacco Campus. Troubadours: The Rise [...]
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Announces Record Attendance
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival announced numbers for the 2011 Festival, and record attendance yielded 1.78 million dollars for the local economy. Festival organizers report almost $200,000 in total sales from passes and single tickets, seating over 29,000 patrons and selling out a record 34 events. Full Frame featured 99 films screened at seven [...]
Register Now for the Documentary Video Institute, June 4–June 11, 2011
In this eight-day intensive, students are fully immersed in the process of documentary filmmaking. Working in small production teams (one instructor for every four students) led by experienced documentary filmmakers, you will be introduced to an array of tools and techniques as you collaborate with a partner to direct, shoot, edit, and screen a documentary [...]
Watch a Clip from “In My Mind” (“In My Mind”)
“In My Mind” is a segment from In My Mind, a new film from the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University documenting Jason Moran and the Big Bandwagon’s 2009 original interpretation of Thelonious Monk’s 1959 Town Hall performance. In My Mind was filmed as part of Gary Hawkins’ Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking Course at [...]
Film Screening: Against the Tide
Against the Tide is a documentary about two men released from Orange Correctional Center—their preparation for release and their experiences immediately upon release and the following six months. Unlike most released inmates, Bill Rasor and LeJhoyn Holland had the benefit of support teams and sponsors. Through personal interviews conducted over twelve months, this documentary shows [...]
American Studies: Photographs by Jim Dow
In American Studies, Jim Dow documents places and things crafted and occupied by ordinary people for practical purposes that share inventiveness and resilience, that mix the makeshift with the carefully considered. For Dow, landscape is fashioned by those who leave their mark both in and out of doors; on signs and billboards, in barbershops, office [...]
Watch a Clip from “In My Mind” (“Not His Hands!”)
“Not His Hands!” is a segment from In My Mind, a new film from the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University documenting Jason Moran and the Big Bandwagon’s 2009 original interpretation of Thelonious Monk’s 1959 Town Hall performance. In My Mind was filmed as part of Gary Hawkins’ Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking Course at [...]
Watch Student Video Projects from “Anytown USA: Smithfield”
Anytown, USA is a documentary video production and editing class at the Center for Documentary Studies taught by Randy Benson, in which students produce and edit a short documentary video on a topic of choice related to a small town in North Carolina. This year, students focused on the town of Smithfield, and created six [...]
Watch an Opening Clip From “In My Mind”
The opening clip from In My Mind, a new film from the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University documenting Jason Moran and the Big Bandwagon’s 2009 original interpretation of Thelonious Monk’s 1959 Town Hall performance. Director: Gary Hawkins Producer: Emily LaDue Director of Photography: Steve Milligan Executive Producer: Tom Rankin In My Mind [...]
Full Frame Award Winners: CDS Filmmaker Award Plus Special Jury Award
The 2011 Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award, one of eleven awards presented at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (held April 14–17 in downtown Durham, North Carolina), went to How to Die in Oregon, directed by Peter D. Richardson. The profound and deeply intimate film takes a piercingly close look at the struggle of [...]
“Office Hours” with Tom Rankin: An Insider’s Look at Full Frame
Recorded in a live webcast on April 15, 2011, Tom Rankin gives an overview of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, held April 14–17 in downtown Durham, North Carolina. Full Frame, a program of the Center for Documentary Studies, is an annual international event with more than 100 screenings, panel discussions, conversations, and late-night entertainment. [...]
“Documentary Explorations” by Award-Winning Filmmaker Mark Jonathan Harris
Documentary filmmaker Mark Jonathan Harris, Distinguished Professor at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, will present a retrospective of his career, show film clips, and answer questions from the audience at Duke University on Wednesday, April 13, 7 p.m. The focus of his talk will be the power of documentary to record and effect social change. [...]
2011 Ethics Film Series at Duke
The 2011 Ethics Film Series at Duke University features four films that touch on the theme of “community,” addressing the tensions that arise between individual rights and the common good and examining how individuals become members of and valued by their communities. The screenings and post-film discussions are free and open to the public. All [...]
Podcast Available: “Radio Diaries: 15 Years of Stories,” Joe Richman in the Duke Innovation Program Series
For fifteen years, Radio Diaries has been giving people tape recorders and working with them to report on their own lives and histories for NPR. With this approach, Radio Diaries has helped pioneer a new form of citizen journalism and has produced some of the most acclaimed and innovative documentaries ever heard on public radio: Teenage Diaries, Prison [...]
Continuing Education Certificate Projects Fall 2010
Throughout the year, the Center for Documentary Studies offers continuing education courses in the documentary arts for the general public. These courses, taught by working professionals, are designed to help students of all ages and backgrounds gain the skills they need to explore doing documentary work on their own terms. The Certificate in Documentary Arts [...]
Southern Circuit Film Screening: Southern Stories
Southern Stories contains two fiction films by Paul Harrill and a documentary by Ashley Maynor. In the Sundance award-winning Gina, An Actress, Age 29, a budding actress’s eagerness to take her first role gets her in over her head. Quick Hands, Soft Feet starts Greta Gerwig (Greenberg, Baghead) as the fiancee of a minor league [...]
Full Frame Winter Series Screening: Waiting for “Superman”
The Full Frame Winter Series features three of the 15 documentary films shortlisted for the 83rd Academy Awards. All screenings are free and open to the public. Waiting for “Superman” will be the last screening of the series. Waiting for “Superman” Directed by Davis Guggenheim Wednesday, March 9, 7 p.m. Bay 7 at the American Tobacco Campus, [...]
Show + Tell: Multimedia Cross Training from Big Shed
“The View from the Field,” the featured public event of Show + Tell, will take place this Friday, March 4, 6–8 p.m. Screening of Danny Wilcox Frazier’s Driftless, nominated for an Emmy for “New Approaches to News and Documentary,” and new multimedia work by Maisie Crow and Jesse Dukes Panel discussion moderated by Amy O’Leary, news [...]
