DocAgora: Debate -- The Auteur vs. Collective Ownership
DocAgora - The Auteur vs. Collective Authorship

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Originally Held: Friday, April 27: 01:50 PM - 03:00 PM, Innis Town Hall

This modified Oxford-style debate considers the role of authorship. One side of Generation D (as in Digital), user-generated doc-makers take on Doc-auteurs, linear trad-school broadcasters and point-of-view purists. The Proposition: Can you still be a doc-auteur filmmaker in this brave, new digital world? Is auteur documentary a dead duck in the digital water?

Presented by:
Center for Social Media, American University


Session Producer

Cameron Hickey, Founder, Pattern Films

Moderators

Neil Seiling, Consultant/Fellow, Centre for Social Media, American University

Panelists

  • Adnan Hadzi, Media & Communication, Goldsmiths College, University of London
  • Brad Dworkin, Filmmaker / New Media Artist, Ryerson University
  • Daniel Cross, Producer, Homelessnation.org
  • Femke Wolting, Director/Producer, Submarine
  • Jennifer Fox, Filmmaker, FLYING: CONFESSIONS OF A FREE WOMAN, Zohe Films
  • Nick Fraser, Series Editor, "Storyville", BBC
  • Rudy Buttignol, Media Consultant & Independent Commissioning Editor of Documentaries, TVO