Name: Practical Approaches To Teaching Documentary Storytelling
Start: 2025-04-06T16:30:00-0700
End: 2025-04-06T17:30:00-0700

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Sunday April 6, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm PDT

W306

This panel will focus on sharing successful exercises, activities, and micro projects for teaching documentary storytelling to emerging mediamakers. Together we'll explore...

• why better collaboration leads to better storycrafting
• simplifying storytelling with a 'one story / one voice' approach
• documentary skill building through structured pre-production
• visual and audio techniques that help students (and faculty) 'show' rather than tell
• teaching the visual language of film to beginners

Walk away with actionable ideas to inspire and develop the next generation of documentary storytellers.
Moderator: Aubrie Canfield, Actuality Abroad
Panelists: Sangsun Choi, Kennesaw State University
Rex Allan Jones, Mississippi State University
Rowena Pedrena, University of Arkansas
Bradley L. Weaver, Westminster College, Pennsylvania
Shari Okeke, Toronto Metropolitan University

Moderators

Aubrie Canfield

Managing Producer, Actuality Abroad

Aubrie is a producer, educator and social entrepreneur. She is the founder and managing producer of Actuality Abroad, an educational travel organization for mediamakers.

Speakers

Shari Okeke

Toronto Metropolitan University

Bradley Weaver

School of Communication Faculty, Westminster College, Pennsylvania

Teaching broadcast communications & broadcast journalism at Westminster College since 2000. Broadcast journalist since 1985.

Sangsun Choi

Assistant Professor, Kennesaw State University

Sangsun Choi is a visual storyteller who focuses on discovering the unique meaning behind ordinary life. He believes that this value can be revealed through exquisite observation and artistic representation. Originally from South Korea, he has created dozens of works about child labor... Read More →

Rex Jones

Mississippi State University

Jones is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, podcaster, author, and Assistant Professor of Broadcast & Digital Journalism in the Department of Communication at Mississippi State University. Before returning to his alma mater, he spent twelve years as a producer with the University... Read More →

Rowena Pedrena

Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas

Rowena Pedrena is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning television producer with more than a decade of experience in scripted, reality, and documentary formats for feature films and television. Her credits include work featured on Netflix, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNBC, PBS, TLC, History Channel... Read More →

Sunday April 6, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm PDT
W306

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