An online talk with Natalie Bullock Brown, of the Documentary Accountability Working Group,on the ethical dilemmas of documentary work.

For a long time, filmmakers have typically regarded open, public conversations about ethics and responsibility in their own films as too risky, threatening their precarious status within the field. As the field has become more lucrative, and as our field engaged in a racial reckoning, that calculus changed.

What are your values, and how do you actualize them in your filmmaking practice? In this presentation by Natalie Bullock Brown, director of the Documentary Accountability Working Group (DAWG), participants will learn about DAWG's signature From Reflection to Release: Framework for Values, Ethics and Accountability in Nonfiction Filmmaking which is rooted in social justice values, reflect on their own practice in safety of community, and explore the ethical dilemmas that inevitably arise, no matter a filmmakers' intentions.

What does that mean? How might this impact your filmmaking? Would industry-wide agreement on best practices help shift non-fiction filmmaking to be more responsible and less extractive?

Join us to hear from Natalie Bullock Brown about the group, its framework syllabus and what it could mean for all of our work.

When: Feb 12th at 6:30 PM ET

Where: on Zoom - RSVP to get link

Presented by Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY