How do you create a documentary by recording what unfolds naturally, without formal interviews? In this workshop, participants create a scene for their documentary project through carefully planned…
Workshops
This workshop teaches participants essential skills needed to edit any video in Premiere Pro, whether it’s a three-minute trailer or an hour-long documentary. Participants learn how to skillfully…
In this workshop, participants will learn best practices for safely storing and organizing media assets and film projects to move smoothly from production to post-production and editing. Award-…
New Moons and New Suns: Speculative Fiction on the screen is a six-week course wherein participants will explore short-form Speculative Fiction writing in prose and on the screen, watch Speculative…
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn professional techniques for capturing the best audio possible for your media projects in a variety of environments. Production sound mixer and recordist,…
This semester-long “how-to” workshop covers all major aspects of film and video production and supports participants in the completion of short projects. Bring your individual project ideas and get…
Whether you're just beginning research for an archive-based film or already deep into an edit using lots of found material, organization is your friend. Filmmaker and Archival Producer Malkia…
Michèle Stephenson reflects on diasporic movement—marronage, exile, and fugitivity—as a living tradition of black resistance across the Americas. Drawing from her own family’s journey from Haiti to…
In this course, Rashid Zakat, video artist and filmmaker, will share various techniques on pushing the practice of DJ’ing into the visual realm. Participants will use a range of editing programs to…
The elements of sound construction — quality of vocal recordings, ambient sound, effects, and music are critical parts of cinematic storytelling. This workshop will introduce you to the basics of…
This workshop series is designed to give you the skills to tell your own audio stories. Audio producer Alex Lewis will lead this course that will cover different styles and genres of audio…
This special learning session is designed for filmmakers with documentary projects in post-production. Bring in excerpts of your documentary works in progress to get feedback and insight on…
This three-session workshop will provide participants with a broad-based introduction to oral history practice, including project design, interview preparation, question lists, ethics and law, and…
In this workshop, cinematographer Henry Adebonojo will lead participants through a four-session deep dive into the practice of cinematography. This course will workshop concepts related to the field…
In this Special Learning Session, Natasha will discuss how documentary filmmaking can be used as a catalyst to mobilize communities,…