Register for the free “Design Yourself” webinar, storytelling edition, we’re co-hosting (December 5, 1-2 p.m. EST). When Elena and I were first considering launching our own business, we heard a lot of warnings from other creatives about how much of your time goes to working on the business itself. They would say this in a …
Former Attorney General, Eric Holder, speaking about his admiration for Janet Reno. Photo by production team member, Nick Michael. Janet Reno lived her life with one guiding principle – “do the right thing.” It was a mantra passed down from her mother, one of the strongest influences in her life. In all the research, conversations and …
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We both grew up around farms – Catherine was raised on a small farm in the outskirts of Charlottesville, VA, and Elena grew up in rural Iowa. But not until this project did we truly understand the challenges and hardships that family farmers have faced and continue to face in the U.S. Through the stories of …
It’s hard to believe it’s been over a year since Overburden premiered at the 2015 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Since then it’s been accepted to twenty film festivals, has received six awards, and has been shown all over the country and abroad. It was chosen as one of the 10 best documentaries of 2015 by …
This April Elena served on the Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award committee for the 2016 Full Frame Film Festival and watched all the films in the New Docs category. There were several amazing documentaries in this pool, but one film stood out to all the committee members: Sonita. This unique, inspiring and brave film follows …
Catherine will be judging the White News Photographers Association 2016 “Eyes of History” contest in the multimedia category. She joins fellow judges Evelio Contreras, a producer, shooter, and editor for CNN, and Rebecca Sell, a multimedia producer and photojournalist teaching at Ohio University. Open judging takes place at the National Geographic headquarters and museum in Washington …
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Thanks to the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) and Seth Gitner for the nice feature in the November edition of News Photographer. And shout out to fellow UNC J-school alum Carolyn Van Houten and of course, the fabulous Chad Stevens, also featured in the edition. If you’re an NPPA member, check out the whole article. If you’re not, …
After the 2015 fall semester, Elena was recognized along with fellow CDS instructor Tim Tyson for having course evaluations among the top 5 percent of all undergraduate instructors at Duke. http://www.cdsporch.org/archives/25512
Photographer Latoya Ruby Frazier speaks to Madeliene Pron during her interview with the Fellows. Photo by Shelia Huggins It was a long and exhausting weekend, but Documentary 2015: Origins and Inventions was a success. Documentary 2015 was a national forum, hosted by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, celebrating documentary today. Eight outstanding …
When we present ourselves as a filmmaking duo, we are occasionally met with confusion. In the media world people are often working alone or as part of a larger team. For whatever reason, two-person teams are rare. You can imagine our delight when we got a chance to meet Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva (The …