Emory’s Fox Center for the humanities has invited me to talk about the “new era” of documentary filmmaking, which to me means more diverse viewpoints, more distribution outlets, technological innovations that put more equipment into more hands, and more narrative techniques that allow filmmakers to tell their stories better. I’m especially talking up short documentaries because it frees up the filmmaker to be more creative instead of spending way too much time figuring out how to pad out a story into a 60- or 90-minute time block for mass media.
