CDS Paid Internships for 2013–2014: Web Design, Exhibits, Publishing & Digital Arts
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University is accepting applications for three nine-month internship positions that will begin in September 2013 and end in May 2014. The interns will gain broad experience in the documentary field, with particular focus on exhibiting, digital arts and publishing, web design, and producing a range of materials related to the [...]
2013 Julia Harper Day Award Winner: Hannah Scott
The Julia Harper Day Award was created by the Center for Documentary Studies in 1992 in memory of the young woman who was CDS’s first staff member, a writer and photographer of real accomplishment. This $500 award goes to a graduating Duke University senior who has demonstrated excellence in documentary studies and contributed significantly to [...]
CDS Seeking Federal Work-Study Students for Part-Time Summer (or Longer-Term) Positions
The Center for Documentary Studies is currently seeking federally eligible work-study students for part-time summer administrative assistant positions. Our administrative assistants are the first point-of-contact at CDS, and require strong interpersonal skills and knowledge about the classes, programs, and exhibits on offer at the facility. Persons in this position must be willing and able to [...]
View Online: Special Spring 2013 Issue of “Document” Celebrates New Photo Books and Exhibits
The spring 2013 issue of the Center for Documentary Studies‘ quarterly newsletter, Document, is now available to read and view online. This special issue celebrates the publication of two new photo books, with accompanying exhibits, from the Center for Documentary Studies: One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia will be published in April 2013 [...]
FREE Films at Full Frame, Plus Live Stream of Speakeasy Conversations!
In addition to the ticketed films and events at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, there are always great freebies. This year’s festival, April 4–7 in Durham, North Carolina, will feature six such film screenings and five Speakeasy conversations—no ticket required. Two of last year’s Full Frame award winners, Trash Dance and Chasing Ice, will each screen twice, [...]
Register Now for New Workshops: “Writing About Nature” and “Animation in Documentary”
We’re pleased to offer these two new additions to our lineup of CDS Continuing Education classes. Both courses will be held here at the Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 W. Pettigrew St., Durham, North Carolina. Directions Writing About Nature Thursdays, April 11 to May 16, 7–9 p.m. This six-week workshop led by writer Belle Boggs (fiction and nonfiction in The Paris [...]
Full Frame Announces Complete Lineup and Opening Night Film
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has announced its full program lineup of new feature and short films as well as the Opening Night film, Gideon’s Army, Dawn Porter’s critically acclaimed documentary that follows the personal stories of three young public defenders in the Deep South challenging the assumptions that drive a criminal justice system strained to [...]
Listen Up: “Groundwork” Special Among the Best-Selling Public Radio Broadcasts in 2012
For the second year in a row, the Center for Documentary Studies placed in the annual Zeitfunk Awards, which recognize standout shows and producers among the tens of thousands of audio pieces licensed by Public Radio Exchange (PRX), public radio’s largest online distribution marketplace. Groundwork, the one-hour radio special produced by CDS audio director John Biewen and [...]
2013 Full Frame Honorees and Thematic and Tribute Lineups
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will recognize three “remarkable Americans who have impacted the art, issues, and business of documentary filmmaking” at its 16th annual festival, April 4–7, in Durham, North Carolina. The Full Frame Tribute will honor Academy Award winning filmmaker Jessica Yu (Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien, Last Call at [...]
March 1 Deadline for the John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards
This year marks the twenty-third anniversary of the John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards, given to undergraduates attending Triangle-area universities to help them conduct summer-long documentary fieldwork projects. The annual awards are given by the Center for Documentary Studies and are named for the noted scholar John Hope Franklin, the late professor emeritus of history at Duke University, in [...]
Development Associate: Job Opening at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, a program of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, is seeking a full-time development associate to work directly with the executive director of Full Frame on all aspects of fundraising, including individual gifts, grants, sponsorships, and government and in-kind fundraising. Full Frame occurs every April in Durham, North [...]
Duke Undergrads: Apply Now to the 2013 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Fellows Program
Duke students have the unique opportunity to join students from across the country in the Fellows Program of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina, from Thursday, April 4, through Sunday, April 7, 2013. Applications are due on Friday, February 22, at 12 noon. The Full Frame Fellows Program is aimed at [...]
Read Online: New Winter Issue of “Document,” CDS’s Quarterly Publication
The Winter 2013 issue of the Center for Documentary Studies‘ quarterly newsletter, Document, is now available to read online, featuring a look at our current exhibits—photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Campaign for Braddock Hospital and photographer Gordon Parks’s 1956 photo essay from Life magazine, The Restraints: Open and Hidden; information on the upcoming Full Frame Documentary Film Festival; an essay [...]
Continuing Education Information Night: Wednesday, January 23
Prospective and current students are welcome to this information session on CDS Continuing Education classes in the documentary arts—photography, video, audio, writing, and multimedia. Continuing Ed program director April Walton and other CDS staff will answer questions, provide recommendations and advice, and discuss the Certificate in Documentary Arts program. There will be a brief presentation on documentary tools and [...]
2012 John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Award Winners and Their Projects; 2013 Award Guidelines
Established in 1989 by the Center for Documentary Studies, the John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards are named for the noted scholar John Hope Franklin, the late professor emeritus of history at Duke University, in recognition of his lifetime accomplishments and his dedication to students and teaching. CDS makes these awards to undergraduates attending North [...]
January 15, 11 A.M.: Passes for Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Go On Sale
Mark your calendars: Passes for the sixteenth annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (held this year April 4–7, in Durham, North Carolina) will go on sale at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, January 15. A variety of passes will be for sale online, by phone, by mail, or in person; click here for details. Passes are limited and sell [...]
Take Five: “Professor Diablo” Returns for Border Crossing on Tuesday, January 22
After four successful shows in 2012, Professor Diablo’s True Revue kicks off 2013 with a show that explores, through documentary performance, the nature, use, and meaning of borders—national, cultural, artistic, and personal. With this showcase of musicians, dancers, and writers, the latest version of Professor Diablo will cross borders with impunity and without fear, from Mexico to Siler [...]
CDS Audio Director John Biewen on “Sure-Handedness: Radio That Knows What It’s Doing”
Center for Documentary Studies audio director John Biewen gave a presentation at the Third Coast International Audio Festival‘s 2012 conference—”Sure-Handedness: Radio That Knows What It’s Doing”—that won rave reviews from attendees for its examination of successful radio pieces and their structure, writing, and editing. Listen to a podcast of the presentation here and participate in the editing exercise near the end [...]
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Accepting Applications for 2013 Garrett Scott Grants
Now in its sixth year, the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant funds first-time documentary filmmmakers for travel and accommodations at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, April 4–7, 2013. For four days, grant recipients will be given access to films, participate in master classes, and be mentored by experienced filmmakers. Two filmmakers will be chosen [...]
Registration Now Open for Spring and Summer 2013 Continuing Ed Classes in the Documentary Arts
The Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies offers classes in photography, video, audio, narrative writing, multimedia, and other creative media for adults who are interested in learning or continuing to do their own documentary work. Registration is now open for 2013 spring classes and summer institutes. In addition to the wide array of established classes [...]
Multimedia Profiles of Local Youth Produced by Duke Students: Presentation on December 3
This semester, through a Duke University service-learning course, ten undergraduate and graduate students learned first-hand about a significant public health issue—pediatric obesity—through working closely with ten youth enrolled in Duke’s Healthy Lifestyles Program to tell their stories. The resulting first-person multimedia profiles created in the Documentary Engagement course, taught by Documenting Medicine director Liisa Ogburn, will be shared in [...]
Register Now For CDS Summer Classes and Institutes
The Center for Documentary Studies is offering seven summer learning opportunities in 2013 through our Continuing Education program; registration is now open for: Intensive Introduction to Documentary Studies, Documentary Video Institute, Digging In: An Artists’ Retreat with Big Shed, Literacy Through Photography Workshop, Master Class in Nonfiction Writing, Hearing is Believing I: An Audio Documentary Institute, and Hearing is Believing II: Making It Sing. These [...]
Full Frame Film Festival Accepting Applications for Programming Interns
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is accepting applications for unpaid internships (college credit available) in anticipation of the upcoming festival, April 4–7, 2013, in Durham, North Carolina. Applicants should have an interest in film and documentary work; programming Interns will become familiar with the submission and selection processes, obtaining an overall view of how festival content [...]
Full Frame November Challenge: $10K in Thirty Days
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has received a challenge from a generous donor: If the festival raises $10,000 in the month of November, 2012, the donor will match it dollar for dollar. You can help Full Frame raise $20,000 in one month by making gifts between November 1 and November 30. Click here to donate. For new [...]
