Events Detail
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The Elusive, Inclusive, Multifarious Truth: Contemporary Documentary Filmmakers and How They Tell True Stories
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Date:May 10, 2011
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Time:6:30 - 8:30 pm
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Description:
"The Elusive, Inclusive, Multifarious Truth: Contemporary Documentary Filmmakers and How They Tell True Stories"
Documentary films are objective, journalistic, factual stories that
are all true, all the time. No wait! Documentary films manipulate
facts and tell stories from the director's singular point of view. No
wait again! Documentaries have evolved and contemporary filmmakers use
many different storytelling approaches to tell layered - yet still
true - stories about complex social, political, economic, and personal
issues.
Get past the true vs. not-true debate and enter into a discussion of
how recent documentaries used different storytelling methods,
characters, lyricism, humor, and other narrative approaches to tell
rich, authentic stories. Filmmakers discuss how they approached
subjects as complicated and controversial as interracial adoption,
environmental carnage and species protection, and the growth of the
Chinese economy - and how they chose to explore true stories using
different narrative approaches.Panelists:
Nicole Opper - OFF AND RUNNING (director - via Skype)
Miao Wang - BEIJING TAXI (director)
Kimberly Rogers - THE COVE (production coordinator)
Moderator: Deborah Zimmerman (Women Make Movies)All events are open to the public unless otherwise specified.
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Location:20 Cooper Square