Introduction to Documentary Film Making

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Introduction to Documentary Film Making
Minnesota Discovery Center
The Minnesota Discovery Center's Minnesota Media Arts School, in partnership with UMD Duluth and Zeitgeist Film Present:INTRODUCTION TO DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING WORKSHOP
Dates: Tuesday's (once a week for 8 weeks starting April): 4/11, 4/18, 4/25, 5/2, 5/9, 5/16, 5/23, 5/31
Times: 6:30pm-9:00pm
Capacity: 10 Students
Location: 1005 Discovery Drive Chisholm, Mn 55719Admission: $250 for full 8-week class
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Workshop Description: Documentary film is a process of curiosity, discovery, and storytelling. In this workshop, we will explore the many different types of documentaries and build the basic technical skills to create successful nonfiction films, including selecting compelling topics based on available resources, pre-production, lighting, sound recording, cinematography, interviewing, finding the story, and editing. Over the course of the workshop, participants will each create their own short documentaries (max 10 min) and will leave the course with the skills and experience to make many more.
Instructor Bio:ELIZABETH CHATELAIN | A North Dakota native, Elizabeth Chatelain has directed several documentary and narrative shorts including MY SISTER SARAH, about her sister’s lifelong drug abuse and recovery. It won the International Documentary Association’s Award for Best Student Documentary and was a Student Academy Award Finalist. Her films have screened at festivals across the country and the world, including Interfilm Berlin, Uppsala and SXSW. She has optioned her feature, SUNDOGS, which participated in the Berlinale Script Station and was an Academy Nicholl Fellowship Semi-Finalist and won the Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition. She is a Blacklist/Women in Film Feature Fellow and a Sundance/Women in Film Financing Fellow. She received an MFA in Film Production from University of Texas-Austin and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU-Tisch. She currently resides in Hibbing, Minnesota.
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Equipment for this class will be provided. Questions? Send us a message, email, or give us a call 218-254-6000.