Clips screened during Capital Conference

Very excited pug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x73ETbDDsgU

Phoebe’s Birthday Cheeseburger, Will Lennon http://vimeo.com/80527606

Lumiere shorts Workers leaving factory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO0EkMKfgJI

Baby’s lunch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WmimQd0qW8

Spike Lee on Lumiere: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJpfrQy6i4

Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoUafjAH0cg

Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6uVrO5d6KU

Olympia, diving sequence, Leni Riefenstahl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-xGPDkNNDo

Goshogaoka, Sharon Lockhart http://www.lockhartstudio.com/index.php?/films/goshogaoka/

Nutria, Ted Gesing http://vimeo.com/46648325

Miss Devine, The Rauch Brothers http://storycorps.org/animation/miss-devine/

More animated StoryCorps shorts here: http://storycorps.org/animation/

StoryCorps National Day of Listening Do It Yourself Companion video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dohm3-plvv8

StoryCorps online resources http://storycorps.org/great-questions/ http://nationaldayoflistening.org/downloads/DIY-Instruction- Guide.pdf http://storycorps.org/national-teachers/

The Unknown Known (sneak peek), Errol Morris http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NptUMuDAljA

Man on Wire, James Marsh http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20yzwx_man-on-a-wire- documentary-complete-hd_shortfilms

Food for Thought: Additional Resources for the Nonfiction filmmaker

Brief history of documentary films http://transom.org/2014/brief-history-of-documentary-forms/

Ira Glass (This American Life) on storytelling challenges / technique Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loxJ3FtCJJA Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW6x7lOIsPE Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baCJFAGEuJM

This American Life online resources http://www.thisamericanlife.org/about/make-radio http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives

5 simple mistakes that doc filmmakers make http://www.raindance.org/5-simple-mistakes-documentary-filmmakers-make/

Errol Morris, how to interview someone http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/magazine/errol-morris-how-to-interview- someone-09222011.html Recovering reality: A conversation with Errol Morris http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHNf4No5WtY

Werner Herzog on documentary style and “ecstatic truth” (start at 1:10) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4i5WkkXdmc

SXSW Film Festival, Best Doc Short winner Slomo, Josh Izenberg, http://vimeo.com/59749737

Interview techniques for doc filmmakers http://lightsfilmschool.com/blog/interview-techniques-for-documentary- filmmakers/16/

Additional Recommended movies/films (*not vetted for students, may contain challenging material/curse words; and listed in no particular order)

The Kid Stays in the Picture, Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein Hands on a Hardbody, S.R. Bindler Summercamp!, Bradley Beesley Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog This American Life (tv series), Ira Glass American Splendor (hybrid doc/narrative), Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini Winnebago Man, Ben Steinbauer The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, Eleanor Coppola Harlan County, U.S.A., Barbara Kopple Grey Gardens, The Maysles brothers Spellbound, Jeffrey Blitz I Like Killing Flies, Matt Mahurin Olympia, Leni Riefenstahl The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, Ray Muller The Natural History of the Chicken, Mark Lewis The Up Series, Michael Apted