Deborah Scranton, a documentary filmmaker, talked about a new way of making documentaries. She gave video cameras to soldiers in Iraq and had them shoot the movie, called The War Tapes. The clips she played show soldiers driving through fields with bombs going off around them, and car bombing victims seconds after the explosions. She's now working on a documentary about immigration. She's given video cameras to border guards, vigilante groups, and the immigrants. A very cool recipe for making movies. Link
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Jen Patashnick says:
Saw the post about the documentary maker giving cameras to her subjects, and wanted to point you to our research project which has been giving camcorders to children and adolescents for the last 13 years so they can teach their clinicians about life as a kid with a chronic condition! It's an excellent way to empower participants and gather rich qualitative data. You can find out more about Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment (VIA) at www.viaproject.org.
