Reshma Kirpalani is a twelve-time Lone Star Emmy award-winning journalist currently working for McClatchy in Washington D.C. In one of her last pieces entitled "Still Serving," she documents the battle of former Marine Corps Sgt. Mark S. Villamac Ho against cancer, which he got diagnosed …
Sports documentaries and documentary series like Last Chance U use myths such as the American dream and redemption story to create more compelling films. Last Chance U used five themes throughout its six-episode season that break down the two myths mentioned above, and it showed that …
The eight decision-making issues are not the basis for ethical conduct within documentary filmmaking. It is the documentarians’ self-reflection of their work and situation-specific choices that are core to the ethical process, a study finds. Duquesne University’s Communication and Rhetoric Studies professor Garnet Butchart and her …
A study of the Netflix-produced sports documentary “Last Chance U” reveals the prevalence of religion in the first season of the documentary, which looks at East Mississippi Community College football program. The documentary’s six episodes also show how college football is bringing the players and communities …
Filmmaker Tom Thurman has directed and produced 36 documentaries since his career began in 1992. In his early years, Thurman wanted to be a painter and a writer. While in school, he realized filmmaking could be both a professional and a creative outlet. “I could tell stories. …
Aubrey Aden-Buie is the program director at Glassbreaker Films, which aims to uplift the next generation of female documentary filmmakers. Aden-Buie also directs BridgeUP: FILM, a program she created to teach high school women about video production, reporting and storytelling. She, along with three other …
Film documentaries as they are known today have been around since 1922 when Robert Flaherty made the first feature-length documentary, “Nanook of the North,” but recently they have moved into a space of notoriety and intrigue for moviegoers and streaming platform users. Last year alone, the …
