Watch “Your Voice, Their Money”: A Student-Produced Documentary on Big Money in Politics
A new short video produced by Duke University undergraduates in the Fall 2012 Video for Social Change course taught at the Center for Documentary Studies focuses on the effects of the Citizens United decision on state level politics in North Carolina and how citizens are fighting for campaign finance reforms. Your Voice, Their Money was produced in association [...]
Documentary Studies Students Unveil Video and Photography Projects, Friday, April 27
In two separate events, both free and open to the public, documentary studies undergraduate students from Duke and UNC–Chapel Hill will present individual and class projects. Democracy Under Assault: Voting Rights in North Carolina, a short documentary produced by Duke and UNC–Chapel Hill students in the documentary studies class Video for Social Change, will screen [...]
Watch: CDS Students Produce Video Series on Farmworker Conditions and Child Labor
Undergraduates in CDS Artist in Residence Bruce Orenstein’s Documentary Studies: Video for Social Change class have produced a series of advocacy videos touching on the conditions of farmworkers in North Carolina and child labor in the agricultural industry. The course is being taught in collaboration with Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF); SAF, NC Children in [...]
American Idealist: The Story of Sargent Shriver, A Film by Bruce Orenstein
Peace Corps, VISTA, Community Action, Head Start, Legal Services for the Poor, Youth Corps, Job Corps, and more. Sargent Shriver invented a string of social initiatives that shaped an era and dared millions of young Americans to live out their ideals. Those who knew him—Bill Moyers, Andrew Young, political commentator Mark Shields, and so many [...]
Bruce Orenstein Joins CDS Faculty
This academic year Bruce Orenstein joins the Center for Documentary Studies faculty as an Artist in Residence. During the Spring 2011 semester, Orenstein will be teaching a new documentary course for both Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill undergraduates, Documentary Studies: Video for Social Change. The course will be taught in collaboration with Student Action with Farmworkers [...]
New Documentary Studies Course Offered in the Spring: Video for Social Change
A new Documentary Studies course for both Duke and UNC undergraduates will be offered for the Spring 2011 semester. Documentary Studies: Video for Social Change Taught by Bruce Orenstein, founder of the Chicago Video Project and award-winning producer of three PBS documentaries and numerous campaign videos for social change organizations This course taught at Duke [...]
