Workshops

Exploring Documentary Production
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"Exploring Documentary Production" is a 10-week intensive workshop taught by award-winning directors who are intimately familiar with the production process.

This workshop offers the opportunity to learn first-hand the process of documentary production from concept to final product. To reserve your spot for the Summer 2008 class, fill out our online form.

Here's the scoop:

Dates: Wednesdays, May 28 - July 30
Time: 7 - 9 p.m.
Place: Newspace Center for Photography (1632 SE 10th)
Tuition: $350 w/ Intro to Digital Editing
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Intro to Digital Editing
This two-evening course is part of the Exploring Documentary Production workshop, but is also available to filmmakers looking to refresh their digital editing skills. Click here to learn more.

Advanced Documentary Production
Dates: TBD

What could possibly be better than the popular Exploring Documentary Production Workshop? Taking it again! This workshop offers the opportunity to repeat the steps of the first workshop in new teams with new projects, and the same giddy success of seeing your work on the silver screen!

In other news...

NW Documentary has teamed up with filmmaker David Weissman twice for his "Producing A Feature Documentary" workshop. Weissman is producer and co-director of the award-winning doc THE COCKETTES, a feature about the legendary hippie, drag-queen artist group of the same name. Learn more about his film by visiting his website.

NW Documentary collaborated with indie filmmaker Mike Shiley in Fall 2006 for a unique film marketing workshop.

This one-day seminar was led by Mike Shiley, one of the most successful self-distributing filmmakers on the market today. He has blazed new DIY techniques for Independent Filmmaking -- generating more than $500,000 from self-distribution. He shared his success stories and a roadmap for any independent filmmaker to learn how to make their film more publicly visible and profitable. Thanks, Mike!