“Anytown USA”: Screening of Student Documentary Video Projects on Star, North Carolina Thursday, May 24

    “Anytown USA”: Screening of Student Documentary Video Projects on Star, North Carolina Thursday, May 24

    Anytown, USA is a documentary video production and editing class at the Center for Documentary Studies, in which continuing education students produce and edit videos related to a small town in North Carolina. This year’s class, taught by filmmaker Randolph Benson, focused on the town of Star, and each of the eleven students created a [...]

    First Book Prize in Photography Winner Benjamin Lowy's "Iraq | Perspectives" Now Available as Enhanced E-Book

    First Book Prize in Photography Winner Benjamin Lowy’s “Iraq | Perspectives” Now Available as Enhanced E-Book

    Iraq | Perspectives by 2010 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography winner Benjamin Lowy is now available as an enhanced e-book on iTunes. Lowy’s audio commentary brings his arresting color photographs of the war in Iraq to life. Those images—taken through Humvee windows and military-issue night vision goggles—and Lowy’s stories capture the desolation of a war-ravaged country as well [...]

    Watch Trailer: "Death Row" Documentary Included in the New CDS/UNC Press Book, "In This Timeless Time: Living & Dying on Death Row in America"

    Watch Trailer: “Death Row” Documentary Included in the New CDS/UNC Press Book, “In This Timeless Time: Living & Dying on Death Row in America”

    CDS publishing intern Joel Mora recently produced an original trailer for Death Row, a documentary filmed in 1979 by Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian illustrating life on cell block J in Ellis Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections. A DVD of Death Row is included in Jackson and Christian’s new book, In This Timeless [...]

    New Video on CDS Exhibit, "Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes from America's Heartland"

    New Video on CDS Exhibit, “Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes from America’s Heartland”

    CDS exhibitions intern Audrey Bell recently produced a video on the current exhibit Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes from America’s Heartland, featuring an audio clip of an interview with Bruce Jackson by publishing intern Joel Mora. Jackson discusses the origins of the show, and his thoughts on first seeing the rare Kodachrome images of Depression-era [...]

    Listen: "This American Life" Host Ira Glass Visits CDS Audio Course

    Listen: “This American Life” Host Ira Glass Visits CDS Audio Course

    Undergrad students in the Short Audio Documentary course at CDS were excited, and a little nervous, when they learned that This American Life host and executive producer Ira Glass was coming to class to talk to them about their audio pieces. CDS audio director John Biewen, who teaches the course, contacted Glass before the radio [...]

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    Now Available To Read Online: Summer 2012 “Document,” the CDS Quarterly Newsletter
    Now Available To Read Online: Summer 2012 “Document,” the CDS Quarterly Newsletter

    Document is a quarterly publication that features some of the best documentary work supported and p…

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    Listen: Student Work from the Short Audio Documentary Class Is Available Online
    Listen: Student Work from the Short Audio Documentary Class Is Available Online

    Thirty-six audio pieces from undergraduate students in this spring’s Short Audio Documentary cours…

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