Description
The Documentary Accountability Working Group (DAWG) is making quite an impact in the documentary film world, promoting a framework for values-based documentary ethics and practices. Natalie Bullock Brown is its director, and she’s my guest this time around. We talk about DAWG’s suggestions as to how people agreeing to appear in documentaries ought to be treated, with regard to compensation, psychological services, community outreach and more. There’s some great overlap between this conversation and my podcast conversations with Byron Hurt and Jennifer Tiexiera & Camilla Hall, so please check those out too.
Along with her work at DAWG, Natalie is an award-winning film producer who also teaches at North Carolina State University. She's held several fellowships, including one at the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. More about Natalie here.
Films mentioned in this episode:
Hazing (2022), Dir. Byron Hurt
Sabaya (2021), Dir. Hogir Hirori
Subject (2023), Dir. Jennifer Tiexiera & Camilla Hall
Other Mentions:
Documentary Accountability Working Group
Documentary Magazine
“Documentary Future: A Call For Accountability”
Sonya Childress
Bhawin Suchak
Youth FX
Molly Murphy
Hannah Hearn
Getting Real
Dr. Kameelah Mu’Min Rashad aka Oseguera
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Special thanks for helping make this series happen: Sara Archambault, Florence Barrau-Adams, Jon Berman, Ben Cuomo (music), Jax Deluca, Pallavi Deshpande, Nancy Gibbs, Kathleen Hughes, Caroline Kracunas, Laura Manley, Alexis Pancrazi, Liz Schwartz, Jeff Seelbach, Lindsay Underwood (logo/graphics)
This episode was supported by a fellowship at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
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