Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a television series. Documentary, as it applies here, works to identify a "filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception" that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries.
Significant institutes dealing with documentary
The Documentary Institute
American Film Foundation
Independent Lens
Docs in progress
The DocsOnline Foundation Watch documentaries online.
joiningthedots.tv Broadband documentary channel.
Big Sky Film Institute
Documentary Filmmakers Group, UK
EMB Film Unit
Film Arts Foundation
International Documentary Association
National Film Board of Canada
National Film and Television School
The D-Word Online community for documentary professionals
Institute of Documentary Film
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program
The Documentary Film & Video Program at Stanford University
FourDocs
FourDocs is an online documentary site provided by Channel 4. It allows viewers to upload their own documentaries to the site for other people to view. It focuses on documentaries of between 3 and 5 minutes. The website also includes an archive of classic documentaries, interviews with documentary film makers and short educational guides to documentary-making. The also includes a strand for documentaries of under 59 seconds called 'Microdocs'.
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WHAT IS FOURDOCS?
FourDocs is the place to upload four minute documentaries. Anyone with a story to tell or an opinion to voice can submit their film. The only rules are that it has to be four minutes long and comply with FourDocs legal and technical standards. Once a documentary is uploaded, anyone can watch it. Uploaded films are categorised in different ways: you can watch the most viewed, the most recently submitted, or the highest rated. FourDocs represents the democratisation of documentary film-making. Everyone can join in, not just those who are already making films. So get shooting and show us what’s out there.
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