Listen Up: CDS Audio Pieces Among the Best-Selling Public Radio Broadcasts in 2011
Two CDS-related audio programs—“Travels with Mike” and a Reality Radio event—were among the top ten most licensed pieces in 2011 from Public Radio Exchange (PRX), the award-winning media company that serves as public radio’s largest online distribution marketplace. The two broadcasts were on the Most Licensed Pieces list in the annual PRX Zeitfunk Awards, which recognizes standout producers [...]
“The Loving Story”: Symposium Will Follow Screening of Acclaimed Documentary on Civil Rights Case, March 1–2, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Nancy Buirski, founder of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, made her directorial debut with The Loving Story, which premiered last year at Full Frame and went on to be short-listed this year for an Academy Award for best documentary. A screening on March 1 will be followed by a panel discussion, and on March 2, a symposium, which [...]
CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography Winner Benjamin Lowy Receives 2012 ICP Infinity Award
2010 First Book Prize winner Benjamin Lowy has won the prestigious 2012 ICP Infinity Award in photojournalism. ICP’s Infinity Awards were inaugurated in 1985 to bring public attention to outstanding achievements in photography by honoring individuals with distinguished careers in the field and by identifying future luminaries. Founded in 1974, the International Center of Photography is [...]
Video Available: Photographer Larry Schwarm on His Book “On Fire”
Interviews with all five winners of the biennial CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography are available on the prize’s new website; here, 2002 winner Larry Schwarm talks about his book On Fire, and how he tried to make the photographs of fires look the way they felt. Application information for the sixth biennial CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography competition will [...]
Deadline for 2012–2013 Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows Program—February 6
Applications for the 2012 Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows Program are now being accepted. Download the 2012 application form here Application due date: February 6th, 2012 Founded on the spirit, values, and actions of Lewis Hine, the Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows Program connects the talents of young documentarians with the resources and needs of organizations serving [...]
Full Frame Announces 2012 Thematic Program and Tribute—View Trailer for Ross McElwee’s Newest Film
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has announced its 2012 Thematic Program and Tribute. The Thematic Program, supported by a $20,000 grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, will focus on family, with a series of films curated by Ross McElwee. The North Carolina native will also present his most recent film, [...]
Video Available: Photographer Steven B. Smith on His Book “The Weather and a Place to Live””
Interviews with all five winners of the biennial CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography are available on the prize’s new website; here, 2004 winner Steven B. Smith talks with Maria Morris Hambourg, the founding curator of the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, about how the images of Southern California in The Weather and a Place [...]
Free Master Class With Award-Winning Filmmaker Sam Pollard at the Center for Documentary Studies, Saturday, January 14
Distinguished filmmaker Sam Pollard will visit Durham over Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend to lead a free master class at the Center for Documentary Studies, a rare opportunity for students and film fans to learn about the craft from a veteran filmmaker. Pollard will show pieces from the Katrina documentary When the Levees Broke: [...]
Full Frame Winter Series: Upcoming Free Screenings at the Carolina Theatre
The Full Frame Winter Series features three documentary film screenings; all screenings begin at 7 p.m. and take place in Fletcher Hall at the historic Carolina Theatre . The Winter Series is free and open to the public. Wednesday, January 18–Buck Directed by Cindy Meehl 2011 / US / 88 minutes Wednesday, January 25–Hell and [...]
Video Available: Panel Discussion—”Art and Advocacy”—From the 2011 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
In 2011 the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival introduced panel conversations with filmmakers and other industry professionals. This panel on Art and Advocacy, covered the following ground: As documentarians struggle to finance their films, organizations with advocacy agendas become a rich source of funding. Does this present a dilemma for filmmakers who might not have [...]
CDS Interns Whitney Baker, Audrey Bell, and Joel Mora
This is the second year we have offered the opportunity to intern at the Center for Documentary Studies to recent college graduates. CDS interns gain broad experience in the documentary field, with particular focus on exhibiting, publishing, and producing a range of materials related to the documentary arts. Whitney Baker is a writer, programmer, and [...]
Read Online: Winter 2012 Issue of Document
The winter 2012 issue of Document is now available to read online, featuring the exhibition Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes From America’s Heartland, an interview with the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival programming director, 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Award winners, courses, and more. Document is a quarterly publication that features some of the best documentary work supported [...]
CDS Receives MacArthur Grant for “Groundwork,” a Radio Documentary Project
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded the Center for Documentary Studies a $140,000 media grant in support of Groundwork, a radio documentary series telling close-up, on-the-ground stories of American democracy in action at the local level, stories that resonate with larger national issues of critical importance to all Americans but which [...]
Documenting Medicine Speaker Series: CDS Audio Director John Biewen on “The Hospice Experiment,” December 14
In a multimedia presentation on December 14 at Duke University Medical Center, CDS audio director John Biewen will talk about the making of his radio documentary “The Hospice Experiment” as part of Documenting Medicine, a program that pairs Duke physician residents and fellows with documentarians at the Center for Documentary Studies to produce work exploring [...]
Podcast Available: “W. Eugene Smith’s Caregiving Photo-Essays,” By Sam Stephenson
In this talk, “W. Eugene Smith’s Caregiving Photo Essays,” writer Sam Stephenson examines Smith’s career-long concern with caregiving, including his famous photographic essays such as “Nurse Midwife,” “Country Doctor,” “Albert Schweitzer: A Man of Mercy,” and “Minimata.” Sam Stephenson (born in 1966 in Chapel Hill) is a writer who grew up in Washington, North Carolina. [...]
Veterans History Project in North Carolina Kicks Off at CDS November 18
Robert Patrick, director of the national Veterans History Project, will be in Durham on November 18 to help launch a statewide effort to record veterans’ stories and add them to the project’s database at the Library of Congress. The Center for Documentary Studies is hosting Patrick’s presentation, during which he will explain how individuals, families, [...]
Podcast Available: “Can Photography Make You a Better Doctor?: Reflections on a Life in Photography and Medicine,” By John Moses
In this talk, “Can Photography Make You a Better Doctor? Reflections on a Life in Photography and Medicine,” Duke pediatrician and photographer John Moses discusses how he has used photography over the past twenty-five years to better understand the lives of his patients and hopefully to become a better doctor. Moses first came to photography [...]
CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography Launches New Website
The Center for Documentary Studies and The Honickman Foundation (THF), based in Philadelphia, co-sponsor a prestigious biennial prize for American photographers, the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, the only one of its kind. Winners of the prize receive a $3,000 grant, publication of a book of photography, and inclusion in the prize’s new website, [...]
“Living with Jim Crow” Wins Oral History Association Biennial Book Award
Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) by Anne Valk and Leslie Brown, recently won the 2011 Oral History Association biennial book award. The award was established in 1993 to recognize a published book that uses oral history to make a significant contribution to contemporary scholarship; [...]
Development Job Opportunity at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Development Associate Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Durham, North Carolina The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, a program of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, is seeking a Development Associate to work directly with the Executive Director of Full Frame on all aspects of fundraising, including individual gifts, grants, sponsorships, and government [...]
Full Frame Screens Two New Documentaries November 3 and November 7
Every year the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival hosts a free screening for area schools and teachers. This year, the screening of Full Frame founder Nancy Buirski’s directorial debut, The Loving Story (77 minutes), with a post-screening discussion is open to students, educators, and the general public. Screening: The Loving Story Thursday, November 3, 10 [...]
The Full Frame Fix at the Nasher Museum of Art October 15-16
Saturday and Sunday, October 15-16, 2011 Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University A weekend matinee marathon featuring favorites from the 2011 Festival and newer titles which have yet to reach North Carolina. FREE and open to the public, first-come-first-served. October 15 (1:00 p.m.) The Swell Season Directed by Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins, and Carlo [...]
“Freedom Riders” Film Screening October 20 in Chapel Hill
The documentary Freedom Riders, recent winner of three Emmy Awards, is the powerful, harrowing, and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives—and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment—for simply traveling together on buses and trains [...]
Documenting Medicine Series: Sam Stephenson on W. Eugene Smith’s Caregiving Photo-Essays
Monday, October 10, 6-7 p.m. Alan Barrus Room 3031, Duke University Medical Center (South), Third Floor (Purple Zone), Durham, North Carolina Sam Stephenson (born in 1966 in Chapel Hill) is a writer who grew up in Washington, North Carolina. Since 1997 he has been studying the life and work of photographer W. Eugene Smith and [...]
