Cinematic Documentary Filmmaking: Shoot, Edit, Launch
Influences
A course by Chloe White , Documentary Filmmaker and Director
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Next, I'll talk about the work that has influenced me over my career - films, books, and photography that have inspired my work and shaped the filmmaker I am today. ”
In this video lesson Chloe White addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Cinematic Documentary Filmmaking: Shoot, Edit, Launch. Learn how to make a documentary by creating a short film on a subject of your choice, from the initial research to the post-production process.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Influences In this lesson, I'll talk about some of the films that have inspired me and impacted my work. The first film I will talk about is "Rough Aunties" directed by Kim Longinotto. Rough Aunties This is a really powerful observational documentary following the lives of women working in a children's rescue charity in South Africa. Kim Longinotto is a champion of observational filmmaking, making films that amplify women's voices from around the world. "There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats children." Nelson Mandela Kim Longinotto first inf...”
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Course summary for: Cinematic Documentary Filmmaking: Shoot, Edit, Launch
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Premiere -
Areas
Audiovisual Post-production, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Video

Chloe White
A course by Chloe White
Chloe White is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and photographer and director of Whalebone Films. Her films are intimate, considered portraits, focusing mainly on the female experience. Chloe lectures in Documentary Film at the University College London and London College of Communications, and lives in Hastings, UK.
Her clients and partners include the Guardian, Topic, Al Jazeera, Nowness, BBC, Channel 4, Oxfam, Save the Children and the BFI. She has had films screen at festivals internationally including at Camden International Film Festival, Open City, and Sheffield Doc Fest and is a winner of the prestigious Macdowell fellowship.
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