Documentaries in HiDef
A Workshop on Broadcast-Quality Documentary Production
Oaxaca, Mexico, July 5-16
This 10-day workshop focuses on the production of
broadcast-quality High Definition documentaries. Emmy-award winners
videographer and editor Dan Duncan and host David Yetman
from the PBS and Discovery Channel Series “The Desert Speaks” will direct the
workshop. Participants will be divided by experience into groups no larger than
5 and receive instruction in filming on location and in post-production editing
to produce a final broadcast quality documentary.
Participants will have the opportunity to film in such places as
Oaxaca City, Teotitlán del
Valle, the Mixteca, and Oaxaca's desert valleys and
on such topics as Oaxaca’s street musicians and the colonial organs of Oaxaca’s
pueblos. Other video projects will be considered
Participants will join in seminar sessions and on-location visits
to the CIESAS (Mexico’s Institute of research in Social Anthropology) Laboratorio Visual and INHA (Mexico’s National Institute of
History and Anthropology) program of ethnographic documentaries. Evenings will
feature the presentation of documentaries and discussion with the producers.
These will include James Cullingham, Toronto-based documentary
producer and Ph.D. student at
Participants receive a certificate of completion at the end of the
workshop.
Costs and
logistics:
The participation fee for the workshop is $1950 dollars that
includes the use of the latest high definition video and sound equipment and
editing programs, and the cost of field trips (with translators when
necessary). Some financial aide is available on a competitive basis. For an
additional cost, participants can request housing with a Mexican family ($17 US a night for
separate bedroom and breakfast) or hotel ($60 US a night for room in a moderate priced hotel within walking distance
of the workshop). For travel arrangements, there are flights to
For
additional information, contact:
William H. Beezley
Department
of History
University
of Arizona
Tucson, Az 85721