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Documentary Storytelling: Creative Nonfiction on Screen
New York; London: Routledge, 5th ed. (2023), xix, 373 pp.
"For nearly two decades, Documentary Storytelling has reached filmmakers and filmgoers worldwide with its unique focus on the key ingredient for success in the global documentary marketplace: storytelling. As this revised, updated fifth edition makes clear, nonfiction storytelling is not limited to
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Documentary Making for Digital Humanists
Key Guides
Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2021), viii, 283 pp.
"This book sets out the fundamentals of filmmaking, explores academic discourse on digital documentaries and online distribution, and considers the place of this discourse in the evolving academic landscape. The book walks its readers through the intellectual and practical processes of creating digi
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Directing the Documentary
Key Guides
Burlington; Oxford: Routledge, 7th ed. (2020), xxxix, 554 pp.
"Directing the Documentary is the definitive book on the documentary form, that will allow you to master the craft of documentary filmmaking. Focusing on the hands-on work needed to make your concept a reality, it covers the documentary filmmaking process from top to bottom, providing in-depth lesso
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Get Close: Lean Team Documentary Filmmaking
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), vii, 204 pp.
"Author and veteran filmmaker Rustin Thompson shows that by stripping away, sidestepping, or reassessing the entrenched industry hurdles-long waits for funding, the unwieldy crews, the unnecessary gear, the gauntlet of film festivals, pitch forums, and distribution networks-filmmakers can move quick
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The Impact Field Guide and Toolkit: From Art to Impact
Key Guides
London et al.: Doc Society, 2nd ed. (2019), 381 pp.
"This guide is about more than just tools and resources, it’s about building community. As with the process of evaluation, we saw an opportunity to learn about how impact happens and to track how films are catalysing social change. That’s the impetus behind the case studies that make up our Impa
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Guía práctica y herramientas para el impacto: Del arte al impacto
Key Guides
London et al.: Doc Society (2019), 237 pp.
"El objetivo de esta guía va más allá de presentar herramientas y recursos, pretende crear comunidad. Igual que sucede con el proceso de evaluación, vimos una oportunidad para aprender cómo se produce el impacto y hacer un seguimiento de cómo las películas están catalizando el cambio social.
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O guia de campo: Kit der ferramentas para o impacto. Da arte ao impacto
Key Guides
London et al.: Doc Society (2019), 238 pp.
"Nós oferecemos ideias e abordagens para que você não tenha que lidar com um obstáculo que alguém já ultrapassou e, com isso, concentrar-se nos desafios próprios de seu projeto. Disponibilizamos todas as nossas colaborações, conversas, acordos e desentendimentos com equipes de filmagem incr
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The Impact Field Guide and Toolkit: From Art to Impact [in Arabic]
Key Guides
London et al.: Doc Society, 2nd ed. (2019), 238 pp.
Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), xiii, 280 pp.
"The potential of documentary moving images to foster democratic exchange has been percolating within media production culture for the last century, and now, with mobile cameras at our fingertips and broadcasts circulating through unpredictable social networks, the documentary impulse is coming into
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Story Money Impact: Funding Media for Social Change
New York; London: Routledge (2016), xiii, 256 pp.
"Today, social-issues storytellers are sharpening their craft, while funders with finite resources focus on reach, and strategic innovators bring more robust evaluation tools. Friesen illuminates the spark at the core of these three pursuits. Structured around stories from the front lines, Story Mon
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Produire un documentaire
Paris: Dixit éditions (2015), 167 pp.
Documentary Filmmakers Handbook
Jefferson, NC: McFarland (2012), ix, 196 pp.
"A complete guide to all phases of documentary production, this is an essential handbook for student filmmakers and professional documentarians alike. Written in concise language and easy reference, the text provides a progression of real-world learning skills, including organization and design. Als
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Funding Guide for Arab Documentary Producers
Beirut: DOCmed; Euromed Audiovisual (2012), 66 pp.
"This working paper aims to synthesize current efforts to develop comparable evaluation methods for social issue documentary films. Authored by two researchers who have been jointly documenting the field’s transformation over the past five years, this paper offers a framework for planning and eval
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"This illustration-filled book offers a self-teaching course in making documentaries, beginning with important advice on how to recognize, define, and research a theme that will ultimately become a movie's subject. Lessons that follow describe the equipment that filmmakers must either own or rent fo
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Documentales para la transformación: Guía para la elaboración de documentales sociales participativos
Madrid: ACSUR Las Segovias (2010), 48 pp.
"El objetivo de la Guía es acompañar procesos de formación en teoría y técnica audiovisual, así como en comunicación alternativa, que permitan a colectivos sociales la realización de documentales sociales participativos. La Guía se inserta bajo el paraguas de la comunicación alternativa qu
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Die Fernsehreportage
Konstanz: UVK, 2nd ed. (2010), 357 pp.
The Documentary Handbook
London: Routledge (2010), viii, 422 pp.
"The Documentary Handbook is a critical introduction to the documentary film, its theory and changing practices. The book charts the evolution of documentary from screen art to core television genre, its metamorphosis into many different types of factual TV programme and its current emergence in for
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Archival Storytelling: A Filmmaker's Guide to Finding, Using, and Licensing Third-Party Visuals and Music
Amsterdam; Boston; Amsterdam et al.: Focal Press; Elsevier ScienceDirect (2009), ix, 326 pp.
Producing with Passion: Making Films That Change the World
Studio City, Calif.: Michael Wiese Productions (2008), xviii, 266 pp.
"Documentary filmmaker Fadiman chronicles her more than 30 years of experience searching out practical approaches to get her productions funded, finished, and seen, balancing inspiration and commitment with financing, shooting, editing, and promotion." (Publisher description)
