Par: Grace Lile, Posté le: Oct 21 09
The indispensable folks at American University's Center for Social Media have published a new report: Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges in Their Work. The report addresses issues include staging and reenactments, editing, paying subjects, protecting vulnerable or endangered subjects, reusing footage for other purposes, and using archival materials. It finds that while most documentarians consider ethics to be at the heart of what they do, they face considerable challenges due to resource constraints and a lack of standards for confronting ethical dilemmas.
Par: Grace Lile, Posté le: Jun 17 09
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Lots of great stuff on tap at this week’s Open Video Conference (June 19-20, NYU). My WITNESS colleagues Sam Gregory and Sameer Padania will speak on the panel “Human Rights, Indigenous Media and Ethics in Video: Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities:”
Par: Grace Lile, Posté le: Oct 27 08
I first became familiar with the stories of Rio Negro and Jesus Tecu Osorio not long after coming to work at WITNESS, five years ago. I watched A Massacre Remembered and A Right To Justice/Derecho a la Justicia, two short advocacy videos using footage shot by Jesus that powerfully call for justice for survivors of the Guatemalan genocide.
