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Documentary Storytelling, 5th edition
To be published July 8, 2022!
ISBN: 9781032267296
Imprint:  Focal Press/Routledge/Taylor & Francis

​In this new edition, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and author Sheila Curran Bernard offers:
  • a closer look at the way ethical nonfiction filmmakers take creative, authorial leaps while also remaining transparent with audiences;
  • new tools for understanding how documentaries are structured, how they may rearrange time for storytelling effect, and how a simple narrative throughline can convey complexity without being a conventional “hero’s journey“;
  • new conversations with filmmakers and educators including Dawn Porter, Madison Hamburg, Tracy Heather Strain, June Cross, Heidi Gronauer, and Julie Casper Roth, and another look at conversations with Stanley Nelson and Orlando von Einsiedel.


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August  2021: Bernard receives NEH Public Scholar Award for “Bring Judgment Day”: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, a book now under contract with Cambridge University Press.

Project Description: Research and writing of a book about blues performer Huddie Ledbetter (1889–1949), his interactions with music collectors John A. and Alan Lomax, and the racial and labor politics of the post-Reconstruction era. 

September 2021: The first six hours (only) of the fourteen-hour series Eyes on the Prize ​are streaming on HBO Max,   

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PBS Video seems to be no longer selling the 7 DVD package for $250, representing the entire series. They are still selling hours 1-6 (1954-1965), which cover only the southern movement during those years.

Additional resources, including program transcripts for all 14 hours, can be found at the PBS American Experience website, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/ 

Other resources, including unedited interview transcripts and (in some cases, video), can be found at the Henry Hampton Collection, Washington State University, http://libguides.wustl.edu/hampton. 


Upcoming, July 2022!:  Arabic translation of Documentary Storytelling, ​4th edition. Details to come. 

June 2021: Japanese translation of Documentary Storytelling, 4th edition published by Filmart-Sha Co., Lt. (Tokyo)

See https://books.rakuten.co.jp/rb/16417519/
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Online resources available for teaching Slavery by Another Name​, including 20-minute classroom version

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Twin Cities Public Television and partners have created Slavery by Another Name Digital Storytelling, a media-making curriculum that includes a shorter (20-minutes) online version of the film. 

The film is no longer streaming on PBS, but many libraries have access to Kanopy and may have licensed it for streaming. 



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Net Neutrality, Fair Use, Free Speech

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. [ratified 1791]

Freedom Forum's First Amendment Center 

Net Neutrality, 
​www.savetheinternet.com/faq

​American University Center for Media & Social Impact - an amazing resource for information on public media, fair use and more

Stanford Law School's The Center for Internet and Society
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Various resources 

DRAMA
  • The Dramatists Guild​
  • The Playwrights Center 
  • Adam Szymkowicz, "I Interview Playwrights" 
  • #New Play TV -- Dramatist Guild events streamed live
  • Written By -- The Magazine of the Writers Guild of America, West
  • Filmmakers Collaborative
  • Independent Filmmaker Project
  • Sundance Institute
DOCUMENTARY
  • National Film Board of Canada - lots of great films to watch
  • International Documentary Association
  • P.O.V. (PBS series)
  • Independent Lens (PBS series)
  • BBC Storyville
  • Writers Guild of America, West Documentary Screenplay Information
  • Writers Guild of America, East
  • Shooting People - independent filmmakers' network in the UK
  • The D-Word - an online, global community of documentary professionals
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Representation, parity

THEATER
  • ​​​The Count, 2.0: Who's Getting Produced in the U.S., written by Julia Jordan (2011-2017 seasons)

FILM & TELEVISION
  • ​The Ms. Factor Toolkit - The Power of Female-Driven Content
  • Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, "studying diversity and inclusion in entertainment through original research and sponsored projects."
  • Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
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