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Documentary 2015: Origins and Inventions - Fellows Program

Documentary 2015 – Origins and Inventions Fellows Program

We are thrilled to announce that we will be running a fellows program in conjunction with the 2015 Documentary forum being hosted by the Center for Documentary Studies. The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University will host a 25th Anniversary celebration and national forum on November 20–22, 2015, in Durham, North Carolina. Documentary 2015: …

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Montgomery Judge Statue

Behind the Story – The Making of “Skewed Justice”

We’ve been working with the American Constitution Society on a short doc about judicial elections, Citizens United, and the criminal justice system. The video is based on the “Skewed Justice” report, a study produced by independent researchers at Emory University School of Law, led by Joanna Shepherd. When we first learned about this work, we were …

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Workshops /// Video Storytelling for Social Change

By popular demand, we will be teaching a one-day workshop on Video Storytelling for Social Change at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University this spring! Video is everywhere, but effective storytelling is rare. How can people working on social change issues use video stories to connect to a target audience on an emotional level? …

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Huffington Post features Center for American Progress tort reform video

Joanne Doroshow of the Center for Justice and Democracy at New York Law School wrote an article in the Huffington Post that featured the Texas tort reform video we produced for the Center for American Progress. “Ebola-infected Thomas Eric Duncan was misdiagnosed in an emergency room and sent home in Texas, a state where patient safety …

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