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 [...]
“Chaos Manor” Theater Installation Based on “The Jazz Loft Project” in NYC September 16-17
Announcing Chaos Manor, a theater installation at The Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn, September 16-17, 2011, and an official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event. Co-Conceived by Christopher McElroen and Sam Stephenson, based on Stephenson’s 2009 book, The Jazz Loft Project, Chaos Manor is a live multi-disciplinary performance installation that seeks to capture the visual [...]
“Alphabet Project”: Exhibition of Photographs in Boston by Lewis Hine Fellow Jennifer Carpenter
Jennifer Carpenter, a 2010-2011 Lewis Hine Fellow from the Center for Documentary Studies, spent 10 months working with the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC) in Boston, Massachusetts. Inspired by the Literacy Through Photography program, Jennifer conducted six workshops with children at BCNC to produce community alphabets. Each class produced a 26-photograph series corresponding to the 26 letters [...]
“Rebirth”: Free Film Screenings in Observance of the 10th Anniversary of 9/11
The documentary Rebirth (Jim Whitaker, 2011, 108 minutes) chronicles the lives of five people directly affected by 9/11. From early 2002 through 2009, the film’s crew followed a survivor from the South Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC); a firefighter who survived the collapse of the WTC but lost his best friend; a high school [...]
Documenting Medicine Fellow Christopher Jones: Palliative Care Documentary Video
In this talk, Hospice/Palliative Care Medicine Fellow Christopher Jones discusses the use of documentary within medicine and presents an 8-minute piece he produced with caregivers in palliative care. With this documentary project, Dr Jones hoped to tell the story of palliative care using interviews with nurses, social workers, chaplains and aids. “I wanted to share what [...]
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. [...]
Call for Entries Open for the 2012 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is now accepting entries for the 15th annual Festival to be held April 12–15, 2012 in Durham, NC. Films submitted will be eligible for the NEW DOCS competitive program. Full Frame exhibits nearly 100 feature-length and short documentary films in various categories during the four-day festival. In 2011, [...]
Sam Stephenson and the Jazz Loft Project Honored by The Independent’s Indies Arts Awards
Sam Stephenson: The Jazz Loft and the Other Side of History Sam Stephenson and the Jazz Loft Project are honored by The Independent‘s 2011 Indies Arts Awards The Independent‘s Indies Arts Awards honors artists and arts organizations for their often-unsung contributions to the cultural life of the Triangle. “Sam has, with his work on the Jazz [...]
Chaos Manor: Sam Stephenson Writes About W. Eugene Smith’s Wichita on the Jazz Loft Project Blog
The following is an excerpt from a blog entry by Sam Stephenson, director of the Jazz Loft Project at the Center for Documentary Studies, an extensive research initiative tracking down the stories of a loft building in New York City where photographer W. Eugene Smith made roughly 40,000 pictures and recorded about 4,000 hours of [...]
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival on the Documentary Channel
The third season of DocTalk, a 30-minute program produced by the Documentary Channel that takes an inside look at the world of contemporary documentary film, includes two episodes filmed at the 2011 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina. DocTalk – Full Frame Episode 1 – Airing July 15 Episode 1 features interviews [...]
Full Frame Movies on the Lawn Screening: Soul Power
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 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. [...]
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 [...]
